The Hoover Dam does more than attract tourist‚ it provides power to 8 million people (32). Instead of using a heat source to create steam to turn a turbine like most power plants‚ hydroelectric plants use the natural flow of water and divert it through a turbine via a dam. The estimated available hydro energy in the United States‚ discounting wilderness preserves and the likes‚ is 65 gigawatts. One significant advantage of hydroelectric power in the U.S. is that there are existing dams across the
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The Challenger Disaster By: Kathy Neuner & Jeremy Rider Executive Summary Many factors must be examined to find the underlying reason for the horrible disaster of the space shuttle Challenger. We will cover both the technical causes to the disaster and the communication breakdown with NASA. We will also look at the outside pressure that NASA was receiving from the media‚ congress and the military. Recommendations for NASA and anyone in the communication field will be given. These recommendations
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Buffalo Creek Disaster YE HAO GBL395 Summer 2014 Synopsis: One of the most significant mining disaster happened at a little valley that located in Buffalo count‚ West Virginia in February 1972. The disaster cause by a dam corruption which was used to block black water produced in mining procedures. The flood break out from the fallen dam and rush out the 17 mile valley below it‚ killed more than 100 people‚ 1000 people injured and more than 4000 people were homeless
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Assignment: Disaster Plan 123 Textiles Corporation is located in a high-crime area that also experiences occasional earthquakes. A new network was set up with the server by a window. All systems are backed up once a month on an exterior drive. One night‚ a thief entered through the window and stole the server. Create a disaster plan that would better protect the organization’s technological assets. The choice to locate the network server by a nearby window is a very poor choice. Placing
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the Friday quake than they had done in the past‚ with virtually all channels breaking into their regular programming‚ and NHK even giving information in multiple languages for the first time. The response is an indication of how deeply the 2011 disaster affected the densely-populated island nation’s psyche. The magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that slammed into northeastern Japan on March 11‚ 2011‚ killed or left missing some 19‚000 people‚ devastating much of the coast. All but two
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Environmental Disaster Who would have known that on April 20th 2010‚ the United States would soon be facing the worst environmental disaster. On that fateful day‚ an offshore oilrig named the “Deepwater Horizon” suffered an explosion. Seventeen people were injured and eleven people died from the accident. The damaged oilrig sank into the Gulf of Mexico the next day‚ and a one-by-five mile oil slick appeared in the ocean. At the time‚ it was unknown whether the oil was from the rig or if the
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Jason Bohn‚ Brian Louis‚ Jacob Etheredge‚ Dave Dufty| Practicum for Project Management | April 1‚ 2013 Dan Monzon‚ Jason Bohn‚ Brian Louis‚ Jacob Etheredge‚ Dave Dufty| Practicum for Project Management | April 1‚ 2013 Challenger Disaster What went wrong? Challenger Disaster What went wrong? Table of Contents Intro 0 Body 0 Give It That Finishing Touch 0 Add a Table of Contents 0 Add a Bibliography 0 Get Started Right Away When you click this placeholder text‚ just start typing
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in the southern part of the United States in an area that receives heavy rain. During the weekend‚ a major water pipe broke and flooded the first floor. The water caused extensive damage to the servers‚ which were also on the first floor. Create a disaster plan to prevent this sort of problem from happening in the future. Proposed solution: The way in which XYZ Computers has their IST Department set up currently is susceptible to many threats. The lack of a firewall is an open invitation for data to
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A nucleotide mutation repeats short DNA sequences a number of times in a row. A substitution is where one or more bases in the DNA sequence is replaced by the same number of bases. There were many short and long term effects after the Chernobyl disaster that would affect plants‚ animals‚ and humans. One of the animals that was affected nearby was a mutated catfish in the Pripyat River. The radioactivity from the
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Disaster in the Forest* In 1755‚ General Edward Braddock famously led a British army to a costly and humiliating defeat about eight miles from the junction of the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers (the site of modern Pittsburgh.) In a passage from his autobiography‚ Benjamin Franklin offers his one explanation of what happened. This general was‚ I think‚ a brave man‚ and might probably have made a figure as a good officer in some European war. But he had too much self-confidence‚ too high an opinion
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