...fun facts about Schlitterbahn on its 35th anniversary,” My San Antonio, March 5, 2014, accessed August 29, 2016, link; and Winter Prosapio, “Schlitterbahn New Braunfels Waterpark Fact Sheet 2016,” Schlitterbahn Newsroom,...
...fun facts about Schlitterbahn on its 35th anniversary,” My San Antonio, March 5, 2014, accessed August 29, 2016, link; and Winter Prosapio, “Schlitterbahn New Braunfels Waterpark Fact Sheet 2016,” Schlitterbahn Newsroom,...
Richard Smalley Richard Smalley was a brilliant thinker, a Nobel Prize winner, and a professor at Rice University. He and his team discovered buckminsterfullerene, nicknamed the bucky-ball, a very complicated...
...not leave behind a wake of environmental destruction from energy consumption or require more than one planet on which to live?” Image Credits: Richard Cavalleri/Shutterstock.com; ESB Professional/Shutterstock.com; Pradit.Ph/Shutterstock.com; Nuk2013/Shutterstock.com; xuanhuongho/Shutterstock.com....
...variety of purposes. For example, extractive industries producing fuels such as coal, uranium, oil, and gas use water for flushing fluids out of the ground, controlling dust at mines, or...
...water quality is clearly a significant way to improve public health worldwide. A woman washes her hair in the Irrawaddy River, Myanmar (Burma). Image Credits: arindambanerjee/Shutterstock.com; Justinc/CC BY-SA 2.0; LiteChoices/Shutterstock.com....
One can measure energy across a variety of different scales. For example, power is the rate of energy production or the rate of energy consumption, which is measured in watts...
...higher than conventional power plants, they offer some performance or environmental advantages. Solar PV panels are emissions-free, which is important for protecting air quality, and their production aligns reasonably well—though...
...source of carbon-free energy, which has benefits, it also has unknown impacts on the marine environment and raises concerns about industrialized beaches and coastal communities. A Pelamis Wave Energy Converter...
...the Price of Optimism,” Time Magazine, August 1, 1969, accessed August 26, 2016, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901182,00.html. Almost exactly one month later, the first mission to the moon successfully landed. Photographs taken from...
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