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    Wireless Electricity

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    Home Search Collections Journals About Contact us My IOPscience Wireless electricity (Power) transmission using solar based power satellite technology This content has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text. 2013 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 439 012046 (http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/439/1/012046) View the table of contents for this issue‚ or go to the journal homepage for more Download details: IP Address: 49.145.98.152 This content was downloaded on 12/01/2015

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    Misuse of Electricity

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    off machines when you leave a room (examples include TV’s‚ computers‚ radios‚ stereos‚ video games‚ VCR’s‚ and DVD players). * When you go away on a trip‚ be sure to unplug these same machines because they have stand-by functions that consume electricity even when they are turned off. * Fill your dishwasher efficiently and limit the number of times you run it. * Don’t put furniture and other things in front of heating and air conditioning vents. * Keep doors and windows closed when heat

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    History of Electricity

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    HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY Depite what you have learned‚ Benjamin Franklin did not "invent" electricity. In fact‚ electricity did not begin when Benjamin Franklin at when he flew his kite during a thunderstorm or when light bulbs were installed in houses all around the world. The truth is that electricity has always been around because it naturally exists in the world. Lightning‚ for instance‚ is simply a flow of electrons between the ground and the clouds. When you touch something and get a shock

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    things of the past. We now light our lamps with electricity. Switch on the button and there is the day-like light even in the darkest night. In summer seasons electric fans‚ air conditioning plants are used to provide us with cool atmosphere. In winter‚ heating plants are used to keep the room warm. Electric bells‚ press and stove are things of every-day use. People keep refrigerators in their homes to keep their food in a fresh condition. Indeed electricity serves as a faithful domestic servant in daily

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    The Overuse and Misuse of Psychological Testing The article “The Overuse and Misuse of Psychological Testing: Why Less Is More” by Jill Sanders and Sheba Katz‚ discusses the use of psychological test in family court. The article explained how the use of psychological testing in child-custody cases can provide helpful information‚ but many people including attorneys and judges place too much emphasis on the outcome of the test. The article explains that there is no test to determine whether a person

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    Electricity and Resistance

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    CHAPTER - 12 ELECTRICITY HOTS Questions for Practice 1. Name a substance whose resistance almost remains unchanged by increase of temperature. 2. Name two special characteristics of heater coil. 3. A wire of resistance 4 ohms is bent to form a circle. What is the resistance between two diametrically opposite ends? 4. How does the resistance of a conductor change if its temperature is increased? 5. A current of 4A flows in a wire of resistance 60 ohms. Calculate electrical energy consumed in 2 minutes

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    inception‚ Superfund was initially asked to identify and clean-up hazardous waste sites. However‚ thirty years later the United States is facing additional new threats to the health and safety of the American people. The Superfund sites themselves are becoming “nightmares to deal with‚ due to disturbances and damage caused by extreme weather conditions brought on by climate change” (Treadman‚ 2010). The EPA website states‚ “hazardous waste sites can discharge and release large quantities of toxic substances

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    In 1970 was the federal first attempt to control hazardous air pollutants (HAP).” The current definition of HAP is a pollutant "known to cause or [that] may reasonably be anticipated to cause adverse effects to human health or adverse environmental effects”. It came in section 112 amendments to clean air. The EPA was required by Section 112 to have a list of hazardous air pollutants that may have would cause to mortalities‚ fatalities‚ illnesses or anything that could not be reversed. Once the pollutant

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    Hazards of Static Electricity; Lightning Lightning is a massive electrostatic discharge between the electrically charged regions within clouds or between a cloud and the surface of a planet. It is the sudden high-current discharge caused by the atmosphere’s electrical breakdown. Lightning is also one of the most deadly natural phenomena known to man. Lightning is an electric current; thus within a thundercloud up in the sky‚ many small bits of ice (frozen raindrops) collide into each other as

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    Electricity market in India . Anant Ashok Lohar Anant.lohar@hotmail.com Abstract-- A robust trading system is very important for free and fair competitive electricity market operation. Trading system should be capable of risk hedging associated with price volatility and other unexpected changes. Operating behavior of a competitive power market is significantly affected by the trading arrangements‚ strategic bidding‚ market model and rule. Trading arrangement is properly

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