Description: North American Clean Energy is a comprehensive magazine serving the growing alternative energy industry. Published six times per year, North American Clean Energy is at the forefront of the renewable energy sector covering new projects, research, and technologies. Readership comprises of US and Canadian-based industry leaders, decision-makers, buyers, specifiers, and other professionals in the alternative energy sector who look for the latest information in a variety of energy related fields—i
Our transition to clean energy storage shouldn’t always start by digging a hole in the ground – and batteries should never end in a landfill. In Part One, we looked at battery waste reduction, from effective recycling programs and promising technologies, to closing the Recycling Gap. Today, we’ll head upstream to where a battery’s waste footprint starts: design, raw materials, energy usage, and manufacturing. And you’ll see how so....
Throughout college, and while working toward a meteorology and climatology degree, one of my favorite magazines was called “Weatherwise”. The magazine is published by the American Meteorological Society, and includes this quote from Benjamin Franklin: “Some people are weatherwise, but most are otherwise.” One reason I enjoyed the magazine was it was low on the technical details and research, and focused more on extreme weather, climatolog....
Foundations for wind turbines and transmission lines normally consist of large, reinforced concrete spread footings. Compression loads on soil are only supported by the soil; overturning loads are resisted by the counterweight provided by the concrete foundation. The changes in loading from compression to uplift can cause a fatigue problem, which is difficultto pred....
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