Macro-Engineering and the Earth
：World Projects for Year 2000 and Beyond
( Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering )
Publication subTitle ：World Projects for Year 2000 and Beyond
Publication series ：Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering
Author： Kitzinger U W;Frankel E G
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 1998
E-ISBN: 9781782420583
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781898563594
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781898563594
Subject： F41 the world industrial economy
Keyword： 建筑科学
Language： ENG
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Description
This work delivers ideas, comments and projects on energy, communications, transport, management, human resources, and financial and legal issues which macroengineering can contribute towards the solution of the Earth's environmental problems. Some 20 engineers and scholars identify problems in the next century whose solutions call for international policy planning and a more collaborative, peaceful and prosperous world order.
Imaginative concepts employ forward thinking for applying technology in revolutionary projects. The book presents results of research on a triple helical turbine capable of extracting vast amounts of energy from slow-moving water, an invention which could harness rivers and ocean currents, rendering high dams (with their political, social and ecological implications) redundant. These turbines are already in mass production in the USA for use in the Gulf Stream to produce energy and hydrogen fuel, and can also be used to harness power from the wind.
Another project, for which the technology is already available, will harvest solar energy by satellites stationed beyond our atmosphere and beam it to the Earth; and yet another calls for planetary defence of Earth against asteroid collisions. The environmental section discusses large projects for changing our climate, planning and costing for a sub-Mediterranean aqueduct connecting the River Rhone in France with Algeria, and plans for intensive fish farming of the oceans. The role of satellites
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