Finding an optimal match between installation sites and renewable energy (RE) facilities while ensuring that private initiatives meet local socio-environmental needs is a significant albeit complicated task. Different may need diverse considerations, such as landscape conservation, information on the true preferences costs of RE unknown to planner, causing asymmetry inefficiency. This study exp...

This paper presents a novel tool for optimizing floating offshore wind farms based on weathervaning turbines. solution is grounded the ability of assembly (wind turbine plus floater) to self-orientate into direction, as this concept allowed freely pivot single point. passive yaw potential currently in demonstration phase. A genetic algorithm proposed levelised cost energy by determining geograp...

When Hurricane Floyd struck eastern North Carolina in September 1999, as many as 50 waste lagoons, many of them several acres in size, were inundated by flood waters. Five lagoons breached, and waterborne animal waste produced nutrient pollution and raised the potential for exposure to pathogens and the risk of disease. As the state recovers, a common question being asked is whether state lives...

EDITORIAL SYNOPSIS This paper illustrates the value of carefully siting the tip of the intra-aortic catheter adjacent to the artery supplying the organ about which more information is required. Cancers in the liver were consistently identified correctly, and useful information has been obtained contributing to the diagnosis of pancreatic tumours, chronic pancreatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, ca...

Guidelines and regulations for the siting of industrial wind turbines (IWT) close to human habitation are generally predicated on the need to protect the sleep of the residents. ssumptions that IWT noise can be regarded as similar to other forms of environmental noise (traffic, rail and aircraft) and is masked by ambient noise. There has been no independent verification that these assumptions a...

issues arising from science and technology. Members can obtain further details from the PARLIAMENTARY OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (extension 2840). note POST 109 January 1998 The rising market for mobile phones has been accompanied by concerns over their safety, especially that the radiofrequencies used to transmit signals may cause harm (most notably cancer). Such concerns relate both to ...

This paper presents a multi-objective formulation for optimal siting and sizing of distributed generation (DG) resources in distribution systems in order to minimize the cost of power losses and energy not supplied. The implemented technique is based on a genetic algorithm (GA) and weight method that employed to obtain the best compromise between these costs. Simulation results on 33-bus distri...