Exploring the Enabling Environments, Inherent Characteristics and Intrinsic Motivations Fostering Global Electricity Decarbonization

Power system balancing for deep decarbonization of the electricity sector

We explore the operations, balancing requirements, and costs of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council power system under a stringent greenhouse gas emission reduction target. We include sensitivities for technology costs and availability, fuel prices and emissions, and demand profile. Meeting an emissions target of 85% below 1990 levels is feasible across a range of assumptions, but the ...

Decarbonization and Sequestration for Mitigating Global Warming

Mitigating the global warming greenhouse effect while maintaining a fossil fuel economy, requires improving efficiency of utilization of fossil fuels, use of high hydrogen content fossil fuels, decarbonization of fossil fuels, and sequestering of carbon and CO2 applied to all the sectors of the economy, electric power generation, transportation, and industrial, and domestic power and heat gener...

Exploring Parental Motivations, Attitudes, and Home Literacy Practices Towards Bilingualism

This study embarks upon uncovering the probable relationships between Iranian parents’ attitudes, motivations, and home literacy practices (HLP) towards bilingualism, Persian and English. To undertake the study, sixty-eight parents of young language learners (YLLs) were asked to fill up a survey questionnaire. The questionnaire aimed to uncover parental attitudes, motivation, and the types of H...

The Inherent Acidic Characteristics

Silks are frequently a cause of concern for conservators and curators. Amongst other critical challenges, textile acidity is considered to pose a risk. Consequently, it is common practice to carry out pH measurements when assessing condition. Enhanced acidity is usually ascribed to previous processing treatments, adsorbed pollutants, and oxidative deterioration. However, the results of the deta...

Electricity Diversification, Decentralization, and Decarbonization: the Role of U.s. State Energy Policy