Isolated microgrid (MG) proved its potential to electrify the remote community through cheaper and greener renewable energy alternatives with higher reliability than weak grid. The goal of universal electricity access climate change mitigation paves way for many public/private owned microgrids in areas. Having mind various uncertainties associated design parameters MG (e.g., temperature, irradi...

Summary With more than 50% of the primary energy consumed worldwide currently lost as waste heat, waste-heat conversion (WHC) should be considered a promising zero-carbon source electricity. Despite significant research on WHC, market penetration such technologies remains limited, in large part because R&D; community has primarily focused development new WHC heat engines with limited at...

The paper applies ANT approach in studying the new space entrepreneurship. The paper tests the ability of ANT to account for the impressive processes of shaking the old government-lead model of rocked design and use that originated in the late 1930s and which is still dominants in many countries. Under this model the space technology was carried out via publicly funded (or state-owned) research...

BACKGROUND Alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) is one of the technical feasible biofuel technologies. It produces jet fuel from sugary, starchy, and lignocellulosic biomass, such as sugarcane, corn grain, and switchgrass, via fermentation of sugars to ethanol or other alcohols. This study assesses the ATJ biofuel production pathway for these three biomass feedstocks, and advances existing techno-economic anal...