Energy problem

Herring C. 1952. The use of classical macroscopic concepts in surface-energy problems. In Gomer R, Smith CS. editors. Structure and Properties of Sohd Surfaces. Chicago Chicago University Press. 

The white paper would contain some cooperative directions and would focus on recommendations for dealing with future energy problems. After some photo sessions we left the Kremlin but none of us was aware of what was coming in the span of the next two years (i.e. by 1989 the whole of Soviet Communism would implode). 

Energy is an importantfactor affecting economic and political stability. The efforts of scientists, economists, social scientists and public figures involved in the solution of current and future energy problems must be combined in order to secure the stability on the global and regional levels. 

Today, the U.S. is the major world energy user. It uses a quarter ofthe total energy used in the world and emits about a quarter of the C02 2 It has nuclear energy problems which are institutional, not technical and these could imperil the solution to the coming world s energy situation... 

If prebiotic peptides and/or proteins were in fact initially formed in aqueous solution (the hypothesis of biogenesis in the primeval ocean ), the energy problems referred to above would have needed to be solved in order for peptide synthesis to occur. As discussed in Sect. 5.3, there is some initial experimental evidence indicating that the formation of peptide bonds in aqueous media is possible. An important criterion for the evolutionary development of biomolecules is their stability in the aqueous phase. The half-life of a peptide bond in pure water at room temperature is about seven years. The stability of the peptide bond towards cleavage by aggressive compounds was studied by Synge (1945). The following relative hydrolysis rates were determined experimentally, with the relative rate of hydrolysis for the dipeptide Gly-Gly set equal to unity ... 

Workshop on Fundamental Research in Homogeneous Catalysis as Related to United States Energy Problems. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1974. 

T. Happe, A. Hemschemeier, M. Winkler A. Kaminsk (2002) Hydrogenases in green algae Do they save the algae s life and solve our energy problems. Trends Plant Sci., 7 246-250... 

Of course, coal liquefaction can never be a permanent solution to the United States s energy problems, for coal, though presently plentiful, is nevertheless a nonrenewable resource with a finite future. The U.S. Geological Survey in 1976 identified American coal resources at approximately 1,731 billion tons, with a demonstrated reserve base of 438 billion tons which existing technology can mine... 

D. Zero-Point Energy Problem and Level Density... 

Firstly, consider some generalities of the energy problem. These break into three separate parts the need to restrict or control the increase in energy consumption, the need to provide energy in new forms as a substitute for fluid fuels and the extent to which other energy sources can provide this replacement. 

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