This paper studies the problem of siting renewable power generation assets using large amounts climatological data while accounting for their spatiotemporal complementarity. The is cast as a combinatorial optimisation selecting pre-specified number sites so to minimise simultaneous low electricity production events that they experience relative reference level. It shown resulting model closely ...

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...

The fatal and non-fatal injuries related to work in commercial fishermen operating out of New Zealand ports is described. Three data sources were used to provide information on the nature of the injuries sustained, as well as their circumstances. High rates of fatal and non-fatal injury were found, with most deaths attributed to drowning, and concerning a vessel operating in rough seas or poor ...

The prospect of independent ownership for distributed technologies is being encouraged by the current deregulation of the industry, and it is possible that the new generators will be independently operated as well as independently owned. The siting of numerous small-scale generators in distribution feeders is likely to have an impact on the operations and control of the power system, a system d...

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...