| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 537 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Part I. Technology 1 -- Chapter 1 AB Method of Irrigation without Water (Closed-loop Water Cycle) 3 -- Chapter 2 Inflatable Dome for Moon, Mars, Asteroids and Satellites 35 -- Chapter 3 Passenger Life-Saving in a Badly Damaged Aircraft Scenario 51 -- Chapter 4 Electrostatic Climber for Space Elevator and Launcher 65 -- Chapter 5 Protection of New York City's Urban Fabric With -- Low-Cost Textile Storm Surge Barriers 83 -- Chapter 6 Cheap AB-Shield for a Nuclear Warhead Assaulted City 97 -- Chapter 7 Simplest AB-Thermonuclear Space Propulsion and Electric -- Generator 135 -- Chapter 8 Protection of Cities from Small Rockets, Missiles, Projectiles -- and Mortar Shells 149 -- Chapter 9 AB-Net Method of Protection from Projectiles (City, -- Military Base, Battle-front, etc.) 175 -- Chapter 10 AB-Space Propulsion 199 -- Chapter 11 Thermonuclear Reflect AB-Reactor 227 -- Chapter 12 AB Electronic Tubes and Quasi-Superconductivity at Room -- Temperature 251 -- Chapter 13 Magnetic Propeller for Uniform Magnetic Field Levitation 271 -- Part II. Environment 297 -- Chapter 1 Cheap Artificial AB-Mountains, Extraction of Water and -- Energy from Atmosphere and Change of Regional Climate 299 -- Chapter 2 The Golden Gate Textile Barrier: Preserving California's Bay -- of San Francisco from a Rising North Pacific Ocean 335 -- Chapter 3 Lake Titicaca -- Physics of an Inherited Hydropower -- Macro-project Proposal 349 -- Chapter 4 Preservation of the Mediterranean Sea during Global Sea Level -- Rise with a Gibraltar Strait Textile Barrage (GSTB) 363 -- Chapter 5 The Java-Sumatra Aerial Mega-Tramway 377 -- Chapter 6 Antarctica: A Southern Hemisphere Windpower Station? 407 -- Chapter 7 Floating Cities, Islands and States 421 -- Chapter 8 Saving of Dead Sea and Stabilization Thereof 435 -- Part III. Science Research and Technical Progress 465 -- Appendix 479 -- General References 495 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-509) and index |
| Subject |
Environmental engineering -- Technological innovations
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Large scale systems.
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Sustainable engineering -- Technological innovations
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Nanotechnology & MEMS.
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Environmental engineering -- Technological innovations
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Large scale systems
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cathcart, Richard Brook
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| LC no. |
2008037245 |
| ISBN |
9781608765232 |
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1608765237 |
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1604569980 |
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9781604569988 |
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