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Energies, Volume 14, Issue 15

August-1 2021 - 329 articles

Overshoot
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Cover Story: Analysts typically regard climate change as the existential issue of our time. This laser focuses on just one of many environmental crises belies the broader issue underlying them all: overshoot. We revive this basic ecological concept—taught in ecology courses, applied to humans in Limits to Growth, and once popularized by William Catton’s Overshoot—as holding the key to our survival. We show that so-called renewable energy technologies actually exacerbate overshoot and argue for a radically simple trajectory change: a contraction of the human enterprise back to one-planet living. Shifting from a near-exclusive fixation on material growth to progress of the mind and spirit in harmony with Nature—unlimited frontiers largely untapped at present—is the greatest challenge confronting humanity. View this paper

Articles (329)

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,300 Views
19 Pages

3 August 2021

In modern electrical power distribution systems, the effective operation of inverter-based arc suppression devices relies on the accuracy of faulty phase selection. In the traditional methods of faulty phase selection for single-phase-to-ground fault...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,094 Views
15 Pages

Fabrication of a Sensitive and Stable NiO Uric Acid Biosensor Using Ag Nanowires and Reduced Graphene Oxide

  • Jung-Chuan Chou,
  • Tsu-Yang Lai,
  • Yu-Hsun Nien,
  • Chih-Hsien Lai,
  • Po-Yu Kuo,
  • Si-Hong Lin,
  • Yu-Hao Huang and
  • Kun-Tse Lee

3 August 2021

How to detect uric acid is an important issue. For the purpose of preparing a potentiometric uric acid biosensor, this research used nickel oxide (NiO) as the sensing film to deposit it onto the substrate by radio frequency sputtering, then modified...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,361 Views
16 Pages

Harmonics Compensation by Using a Multi-Modular H-Bridge-Based Multilevel Converter

  • Raul Gregor,
  • Julio Pacher,
  • Alejandro Espinoza,
  • Alfredo Renault,
  • Leonardo Comparatore and
  • Magno Ayala

3 August 2021

This paper presents an active power filter based on a seven-level cascade H-bridge where the main contribution is a control strategy that combines model-based predictive control, the voltage vectors of the converter output levels, the phase shift PWM...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,571 Views
32 Pages

3 August 2021

Energy efficiency, generation from renewable sources and more recently energy flexibility are key elements of present sustainability policies. However, we are beginning to see a recognition of the need to couple technological solutions with lifestyle...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,082 Views
16 Pages

3 August 2021

Climate change and efforts to mitigate it have given rise to an interest in the relationship between industry competitiveness, energy efficiency, and carbon emissions. A better understanding of this relationship can be essential for economic and envi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,144 Views
11 Pages

Synthesis of Alkyl Aliphatic Hydrazine and Application in Crude Oil as Flow Improvers

  • Qiang Deng,
  • Michal Slaný,
  • Huani Zhang,
  • Xuefan Gu,
  • Yongfei Li,
  • Weichao Du and
  • Gang Chen

3 August 2021

In this paper, alkyl aliphatic hydrazine, which is different from traditional polymer fluidity improver, was synthesized from aliphatic hydrazine and cetane bromide, and evaluated as a pour point and viscosity-reducer depressant for crude oil. The ev...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,888 Views
23 Pages

Is Secure Communication in the R2I (Robot-to-Infrastructure) Model Possible? Identification of Threats

  • Karolina Krzykowska-Piotrowska,
  • Ewa Dudek,
  • Mirosław Siergiejczyk,
  • Adam Rosiński and
  • Wojciech Wawrzyński

3 August 2021

The increase in the role of companion robots in everyday life is inevitable, and their safe communication with the infrastructure is one of the fundamental challenges faced by designers. There are many challenges in the robot’s communication with the...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,136 Views
21 Pages

3 August 2021

In some cases, the oil shale deposited in shallow lakes may be genetically associated with the coal-bearing successions. Although paleovegetation is an important controlling factor for the formation of oil shale- and coal-bearing successions, few stu...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,516 Views
16 Pages

3 August 2021

Financial liquidity and profitability are two critical phenomena present in the financial economy of a company, whose relations depend on each other and may course in different directions. At the same time, they are an example of the complexity of th...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,677 Views
18 Pages

3 August 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has set new challenges for the HoReCa industry. Lockdowns have coincided with and strongly impacted the industrial transformation processes that have been taking place for a decade. Among the most important HoReCa transition pro...

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