A clear, practical, and comprehensive guide to capital investment evaluation, capital budgeting, and decision analysis. Designed for students and professionals alike, the book walks readers step-by-step through decision-making under uncertainty, emphasizing real-world application with numerous solved examples, illustrations, and end-of-chapter ......
"Southeast Asia is poised to play a pivotal role in global energy decarbonization, driven by its rapidly expanding economies and growing populations. However, the region remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels to meet its energy demand. Energy and Decarbonization in Southeast Asia delves into the critical research topics shaping the region's path ......
Chemistry and Energy: A Consumer Chemistry Course provides students with an exploration into the interdisciplinary relationship between chemistry and energy from both a scientific and societal perspective. Introductory chapters cover foundational concepts like classical mechanics, scientific theories, hypotheses, and laws, which set the stage ......
A Comparative Approach to Science, Technology, and Society
Nuclear Agendas in Japan and Taiwan compares practical management cases regarding nuclear energy in regional neighbouring partners: Japan and Taiwan. An introductory overview of Japan's nuclear policy leads to the specification of important factors tangible in everyday life. What we perceive as knowledge transfer innovation and renewed industrial ......
Technology and Social Justice in National Development
Electrifying Indonesia tells the story of the entanglement of politics and technology during Indonesia's rapid post-World War II development. As a central part of its nation-building project, the Indonesian state sought to supply electricity to the entire country, bringing transformative socioeconomic benefits across its heterogeneous territories ......
The discovery of oil in Tinsley, Mississippi, in 1939 captivated the South and has deeply affected the region ever since. At the end of 1940, over 133 wells were flowing, and speculators were drilling holes and staking claims all along the Gulf Coast and its immediate environs. Consequently, the region's economy, ecosystems, and politics have been ......
Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Hard Choices in the 1970s
The 1970s were a decade of historic American energy crises-major interruptions in oil supplies from the Middle East, the country's most dangerous nuclear accident, and chronic shortages of natural gas. In Energy Crises, Jay Hakes brings his expertise in energy and presidential history to bear on the questions of why these crises occurred, how ......
INTRODUCTION 1.1 GENERAL The transport, reaction, and phase change of fluid in natural and engineered porous media rely on the knowledge gained in studying these phenomena in otherwise plain media. The presence of permeable solid (which is assumed to be rigid and stationary) influences these phenomena significantly. So fluid flow and heat ......
A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia. The Harlan Renaissance is an intimate remembrance of kinship and community in eastern Kentucky's coal towns written by one of the luminaries of Appalachian studies, William Turner. Turner reconstructs Black life in the company towns in and around Harlan County ......