Science Essays

For over twenty-one years, fuel price in Malaysia has been fluctuating ever since. Back then, the cost of a litre of petrol was only RM0. 89. The history of fuel price increment started since the year 1990 when petrol price increased to RM1. 10. Today, the price of a litre of RON97 is retailed at […]

Data centers consume a large amount of energy for their operation and maintenance, mainly due to the cooling and powering of computers. The EPA reported that in 2011, data centers in the United States used around 12 gigawatts of power, which is equivalent to what twenty-five large power plants generate. It is estimated that by […]

Nepal is often jostled up amongst the facts and myths when it comes to hydro- electric power generation. There are facts that relate it to one of the richest countries in the world when it comes to resources. Then there is a myth, for a nation with such bountiful resources would have never been deprived […]

1.Power crisis has become a chronic disease in our country since the mid-nineties due to increase in consumption of electricity in various sectors with the increase of population. Despite the time-demanding necessity of meeting the increasing trend in electricity consumption, No real action has been taken in resolving this national crisis. We have gone through […]

Caprica, a company based in Charleston, West Virginia, has been operating for 40 years. Initially confined to Kentucky and Ohio for 30 years, Caprica expanded its operations to Michigan in 1997. In 2005, it introduced hydraulic fracturing technology for shale gas exploitation. Currently, Caprica boasts five years of experience in utilizing this technology. Caprica aims […]

pH is the measurement of acidity or alkalinity in the blood. It ranges from 1 to 14, with a pH of 1 indicating extreme acidity and a pH of 14 indicating extreme alkalinity. The optimal blood pH level is approximately 7.4. When the pH falls below 7, it results in excessive acidity which disrupts metabolism […]

The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is located in Morong, Bataan and was constructed under the administration of President Ferdinand Ferdinand Marcos during the Martial Law period. Westinghouse was contracted to build the light water reactor, deign to produce 621 megawatts of electricity. This power plant was constructed under loan $600 million for two units […]

1. SME is in fact a plant made product (emulsion matrix) which need only to be sensitized by entrapment of gas bubbles either by, chemical gassing or addition of substantial quantity of porous ammonium nitrate (AN) prills, to form explosive. 2. SMS is truly a Site Mixed Slurry explosive in the sense that all intermediate […]

PTT is currently ranked No. 95 among the world’s largest 500 companies (based on the 2011 performance), up from No. 128th in 2011, with sale revenues of 2,428,165 million Baht, or a jump by 529,483 million Baht or 27. 9 percent from 2010. Furthermore, PTT, having successfully been assessed by the SAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment […]

Filipino inventor Roberto del Rosario is asserting his rights to the invention of the Sing-Along-System (SAS), which ultimately led to the creation of Karaoke, a term from Japan that means “singing without accompaniment”. Del Rosario also created other inventions such as the Trebel Voice Color Code (VCC), the piano tuner’s guide, the piano keyboard stressing […]

In his book, first published in 2009, ‘Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age’, Gregg Braden gave wonderful clues into what we would expect to occur in our world and universe by the year 2012. Though years have passed since the first publication of the book, the information in the book […]

A turbocharger is defined as a centrifugal blower driven by exhaust gas turbines and used to supercharge an engine. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) Turbochargers compress the air flow into the engine. One of the advantages of the air being compressed is that more air is being squeezed into the cylinder, more air in the cylinder means that […]

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Building Authority recently closed the old coal power plant located next to campus center way (Main Campus). The closure was necessary as this power plant, which had been UMass’s sole energy source for many years, became obsolete after it was supposed to be replaced in the early 1970s by the […]

Electricity is an essential requirement for human survival and plays a crucial role in economic growth. Without electricity, our lives would be unimaginable. Unfortunately, Pakistan has been experiencing a severe electricity shortage since 2007. This crisis has resulted in up to 10 hours of load shedding in Karachi. In both commercial and residential areas of […]

1. Executive Summary Normal accident theory and Swiss cheese model are influential models in studying system accident causation. This paper is going to help us to gain understanding of both models and to critically compare them. The first part of the study is an introduction of the both models. In the second part, Three Mile […]

To study the environmental aspects of the production process effectively, it is important to gather relevant data. Understanding the connection between the economy and the environment is crucial (doc 1 – PDF, French). The most important aspects of this relationship are highlighted. In MESO analyses, the industrial sector or urban community being studied is considered […]

Tucker Energy Services Limited is a privately owned multinational oil and gas services corporation that offers innovative technology solutions with dedication to customer focused service. Seeing as how corporate direction is derived from the Houston headquarters in the United States of America and proprietary technology development & training takes place in the company’s United States […]

In physics, mechanical energy is the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy present in the components of a mechanical system. It is the energy associated with the motion and position of an object. The law of conservation of energy states that in an isolated system that is only subject to conservative forces, like the […]

Colgate Scam is the recent coal scandal that happened in the country due to poor allocation of coal blocks. This scam is also called the “Mother of all scams’. CAG report shows that private companies had gain around Rs 1. 86 lakh crore from coal blocks that were allocated to them on nomination basis instead […]

Energy workers are a part of the huge network of people that make our country as great as it is today. Even Jeff Landry himself a member of congress said “the most valuable resource in the gulf of Mexico is not the oil and gas under the waters; it is the men and women willing […]

The Sun is the ultimate source of energy to life on the Earth, and the earth’s atmosphere attenuates this dynamics as a pathway. The atmosphere is a major component of the Earth aside Lithosphere and hydrosphere. The atmosphere contains atmospheric gases inevitable for life on Earth, and acts as a pathway by which solar energy […]

Back in 1996, a particular car outshined all others. The General Motors EV-1, with its zero-emission feature and attractive, streamlined design was unrivaled. Operating without the need for gas or oil, this car’s only power source was electricity, making it extremely environmentally friendly. In line with California’s zero-emissions vehicle policy which required automakers to offer […]