It seems that one of the effects of global warming is to increase rainfall in some parts of the world while reducing it in others. With the growth in demand for water the effects of any reduction on political stability and human happiness are profound. Several regions in the Mediterranean are vulnerable. The amounts of energy involved in weather systems are so very large that it is difficult fo...

Many challenges exist for the efficient and safe operation of wind turbines due to the difficulty in creating accurate models of their dynamic characteristics and the turbulent conditions in which they operate. A promising new area of wind turbine research is the application of adaptive control techniques, which are well suited to problems where the plant model is not well known and the plant o...