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If you choose to follow any links to the complete text of articles listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Marc C. Fitzgerald Look Ma, No Pages. (... an installment of a regular column in CHEMTECH, this short article gives a useful update about and overview of e-books or electronic books--small, handheld electronic devices that can plug into a cradle connected to a computer or modem through which it is possible to download [usually for a fee] textbooks, novels, or other documents from Web-based publishers) CHEMTECH Volume 29, Number 12 (December 1999): 26-27. **The complete text of this article is currently available through the Web site of CHEMTECH** Robert E. Newnham and Ahmed Amin Smart Systems: Microphones, Fish Farming, and Beyond -- Smart Materials, Acting as Both Sensors and Actuators, Can Mimic Biological Behavior. (... a very interesting review of current progress and future possibilities using smart materials and smart systems. Smart materials--such as piezoelectrics, electrostrictors, magnetostrictors, and shape-memory alloys--have the ability to perform sensing [receiving a stimulus and responding with a signal] and actuating [producing a useful motion or action] functions and therefore are capable of imitating living systems. Current applications are described such as the smart shock absorber for automobiles developed by Toyota. A basic description of smart materials is included--from the text of the article on the CHEMTECH Web site) CHEMTECH Volume 29, Number 12 (December 1999): 38-47. **The complete text of this article is currently available through the Web site of CHEMTECH** Paul M. Lemieux, Christopher C. Lutes, Judith A. Abbott, and Kenneth M. Aldous Emissions of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans from the Open Burning of Household Waste in Barrels. (... this study calls for more related research but, based on 4 test burns, speculates that the amounts of the pollutants polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins [PCDDs] and polychlorinated dibenzofurans [PCDFs] which are released through the opening burning of trash in burn barrels [a common practice especially in rural areas of the United States] may help to account for the significant gap between current deposition estimates and emission estimates for dioxins in the United States as determined by the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] in 1994. The gap that was discovered indicated that the deposition estimates--the amount of dioxins actually present in the environment--were considerably higher than the emissions estimates--the amount released through the various sources of dioxins known at that time. In addition, the test burns indicated that approximately only 2-40 households burning their garbage daily in open barrels release an amount of PCDDs and PCDFs equivalent to the amount produced by a modern municipal waste combustion facility [equipped with pollution control equipment] processing some 200 tons per day of refuse generated by thousands of families--from the text of the article on the Environmental Science & Technology Web site) Environmental Science & Technology Web Release Date: January 4, 2000. **The complete text of this article is currently available through the Web site of Environmental Science & Technology** William Sweet, Elizabeth A. Bretz, Marlowe Hood, and Vir Singh, Editors Special Report -- China & India: Coal-Fired Power. (... a special report that analyzes the heavy use of and dependence on coal and biomass [wood, dung, and crop residues] for fuel and power generation in China and India, the technological, economic, and political reasons for that dependence, and the various consequences of it for the people of China and India and the rest of the world. Because of their heavy use of coal and biomass, China and India together contribute nearly one-fifth of the carbon dioxide the human race pumps into the atmosphere yearly. Since carbon dioxide is considered the most important of the greenhouse gases, the heavy use of coal and biomass in these countries is an important contributor to global warming and climate change. Please see the To probe further sections that accompany each of the 4 parts of the special report--from the text of the article) IEEE Spectrum Volume 36, Number 11 (November 1999) Parts of the Special Report -- Toward Carbon-Free Energy. Pages 28-33. Energy Policy and Politics in China. Pages 34-38. Can China Consume Less Coal? Pages 39-47. India's Power Struggles. Pages 48-56. How to find the above journals, magazines, and other publications? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions about any or all of the above? Please let me know. |
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