Blogging is a form of social communication that facilitates human interaction. The cultural orientations of individualism and collectivism, which relate to basic beliefs about human relationships and interactions, should be determinants of blogging. This study explores the impacts of individualism-collectivism orientation on perceived self-efficacy in blogging, along with blogging and attitudes...

Coal based power plant emitted pollution is responsible for environmental burden of disease (EBD) from solid fuel use (SFU) like combustion of coal or biomass. Environmental pollution due to operation of thermal power plants is also one of the factors for acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer (from exposure to coal smoke), asthma, tu...

To determine dominant factors on arsenic leaching from the coal fly ash, arsenic leaching test under a constant pH was performed. Twelve fly ash samples were collected from two coal fired power plants (600 MWe) having different boiler types. Arsenic in the raw coal was almost all associated with the fly ash in both power plants; however arsenic leaching fraction was strongly differed in boiler ...

This study constitutes one part of a program for assessing the impact of coal-fired power plants on the surrounding communities. A questionnaire was mailed to a total of 12,000 subjects living in six areas with coal-fired plants and in matched reference areas. The participation rate was 77.3%. In one coal-fired plant/reference area pair, a more detailed medical examination was carried out among...

Wind power introduces variability into electric power systems. Due to the physical characteristics of wind, most of this variability occurs at inter-hour time-scales and coal units are therefore technically capable of balancing wind. Operators of coal-fired units have raised concerns that additional cycling will be prohibitively costly. Using PJM bid-data, we observe that coal operators are lik...

During the past ten years, the ARIES Team has studied a variety of tokamak power plants with different degrees of extrapolation in plasma physics and technology from present database. Continuation of research has allowed us to apply lessons learned from each ARIES design to the next. The results of ARIES tokamak power plant studies provide a large body of data that highlight the contribution, t...

For example, biomedical research on the carcinogenity of synthetic fuels mixtures is primarily sponsored by the DOE and conducted through its national laboratories, which are viewed by some groups as proponents of synthetic fuel development. Although the technology for producing liquid fuels from coal was first demonstrated by Germany during the 1920's, coal lique-faction is still in an early s...

Nowadays for power generation, environment is a major consideration. The heart of power generation is power station. At present there are almost above 40(Both Government & Rental) power station in Bangladesh. Among these 80% of power station is gas based. Rest of the 20% is coal, liquid and furnace oil based. Bangladesh has only one Hydraulic power station. These gas and coal based power statio...

Carbon management and sequestration offers an opportunity for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that can complement the current strategies of improving energy efficiency and increasing the use of non-fossil energy resources. When most people think of sequestering carbon, they think of planting trees. However, the focus of this paper is the capture of CO 2 from large stationary sources, primaril...

Six Integrated Gasifi cation Combined-Cycle (IGCC) power plant confi gurations operating on bituminous coal were evaluated and the results are presented in this summary sheet. All cases were analyzed on the same basis, using a consistent set of assumptions and analytical tools. Each gasifi er type was assessed with and without carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). The individual confi guratio...