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Oct 01, 2009; ... A FRIEND REMEMBERED To the Editor: Bill Begell was indeed a great friend of the Heat Transfer community (Editorial, August). Not only did he publish a large number of journals, books, and conference proceedings in the area of heat transfer, he was always present, with his ready wit and ...
NEXT DECADE CRITICAL TO ENERGY FUTURE
Oct 01, 2009; ... Actions taken through 2020 to demonstrate and deploy key technologies "will largely determine the nation's energy options for many decades to come," according to a new report from the National Research Council. The report, America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformatton, assesses ...
Water Is Top Environmental Concern
Oct 01, 2009; ... An international public opinion survey on environmental concerns has found that water pollution and shortages of fresh water are the issues considered serious by most people around the world. The survey was conducted by the research firm GlobeScan for the organization Circle of Blue ....
WAYS TO HELP
Oct 01, 2009; ... AS THE PROVERB GOES, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." The saying reflects the work of engineers who are focusing on the nearly four billion people who are part of what is known as the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) - those in ...
Reading Hidden Color
Oct 01, 2009; ... Scientists at Cornell University and at the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate have come up with an X-ray imaging tech- nique that has revealed color information of a painting hidden beneath another painting by American illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth. Using simple X-ray techniques, ...