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    Water Turbines

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    Making Water Turbines Most Energy Efficient How does a wind turbine’s output vary with wind pressure (height of water)‚ the flow rate‚ size of the motor‚ and type of blade? Introduction There are many types of energy used today: Fossil fuels‚ coal‚ nuclear energy‚ solar energy‚ geothermal energy‚ hydrogen energy‚ hydroelectric energy‚ wind energy‚ and biofuels and biomass. Non-renewable energy sources such as fossil fuels and coal are diminishing since it cannot be recycled‚ unlike wind energy

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    water shortage

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    Water scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage within a region. It currently affects around 2.8 billion people around the world‚ on all continents‚ at least one month out of every year and more than 1.2 billion people lack the access to clean drinking water.[1] Water scarcity can be a result of two mechanisms: physical (absolute) water scarcity and economic water scarcity‚ where physical water scarcity is a result of inadequate natural water

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    Water Essay

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    Water is an odorless‚ colorless‚ tasteless chemical compound that makes up well more than half of the human body. In addition to being prominent in the make-up of the human body‚ it also covers all but approximately 30% of the Earth’s surface‚ and can be found naturally in all three states of matter: liquid‚ solid and gas. Water is a covalent bond known most commonly by its empirical form; H2O. It can also be identified by the Lewis Dot Structural form shown in the figure in the upper right corner

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    Desalination of Water

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    desalination of water water‚ desalination of‚ process of removing soluble salts from water to render it suitable for drinking‚ irrigation‚ or industrial uses. The principal methods used for desalination include distillation (or evaporation)‚ electrodialysis‚ freezing‚ ion exchange‚ and reverse osmosis. In distillation saltwater is heated in one container to make the water evaporate‚ leaving the salt behind. The desalinated vapor is then condensed to form water in a separate container. Although long

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    Water Pollution

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    Water Pollution SCI/275 Artina Houston September 27‚ 2010 Aimee Pellet Water pollution is when a body of water is adversely affected due to the addition of large amounts of materials to the water. (www.imbgnet.net) There are four types of water pollutions and I’m going to describe each one of them. I’m also going to tell you the solutions that I can up with and how I’m going to get the government and people involved to help. It is a lot of things that we don’t know about water pollution

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    Water Pollution

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    April 2013 Water Pollution: Pollutants & Solutions Imagine swimming out of a narrow cavern following a scrumptious meal‚ and you come to realize it was poisonous. You begin to drown as your life slowly fades right before your very eyes; this is not a frightening hallucination. Everyday‚ schools of fish are unaware that their meals are products of millions of tiny pieces of garbage‚ assimilated. This is one of the many consequences of water pollution‚ which is the contamination of water bodies

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    Water Scarcity

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    * Water is a natural resource of the utmost importance; nothing on earth can survive without it. Aside from drinking‚ water is used for agriculture‚ cooking‚ bathing‚ cleaning‚ industrial purposes and sanitation. When the demand for water exceeds its supply for an extended period of time‚ scientists refer to the situation as water stress. This serious issue leads to lower quantity and quality of freshwater resources. While most causes are human-related‚ others are uncontrollable. Population Growth

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    Water Treatment

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    Water treatment * Water treatment  - describes those industrial-scale processes used to make water more acceptable for a desired end-use. These can include use for drinking water‚ industry‚ medical and many other uses. Such processes may be contrasted with small-scale water sterilization practiced by campers and other people in wilderness areas. The goal of all water treatment process is to remove existing contaminants in the water‚ or reduce the concentration of such contaminants so the water

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    Quality of Water

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    Quality of Water [Type the document subtitle] 1/8/2014 [Type the company name] Cacey Shrewsberry Quality of Water Cacey Shrewsberry January 8‚ 2014 How are water quality standards determined? Water quality is determined by three major classes that are biological‚ chemical‚ and physical. The biological class has to do with the organisms that are living in the water and how many organisms that there are. Some of the organisms that live in the water have certain physical and chemical

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    Water Shortage

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    solutions to the problem of water shortage in Australia. Water is the resource which is under increasing stress for most countries‚ especially for the developing countries. Australia is one of the experiencing typical water shortage countries. In Australia‚ in the recent years‚ water scarcity is a controversial and high-concerned issue since the global warming‚ land desertification‚ population growth‚ increasing use of hydropower and irrigation factors have intensified the water shortage phenomenon

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