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    J. Phillips BGEN 440, Montana State University - Billings  Introduction Solar energy is the conversion of power from the sun to usable electricity (Alternative Energy, 2014). The most common source of solar energy utilizes photovoltaic cells to convert sunlight into electricity (Alternative Energy, 2014). Photovoltaics use a semi-conductor to absorb the radiation from the sun, creating and emitting electrons, which are then harnessed and used as electricity (Alternative Energy, 2014). Pros of Solar

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    The International Energy Outlook 2013 predicts that the biggest future increase in world energy use will be caused by Non-OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries, while the energy use within the OECD countries will stay generally stable as it has for the past decades which can be observed in figure 1 (EIA 2015). The OECD countries are experiencing a growth rate of about 0.5% which roughly equates their population growth (EIA 2015). The energy use in non-OECD countries

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    Mars Flight

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    his memory flashed back to the beginning of this risky journey... Day 0: Pre-launch; Earth The moment humans have been waiting for for decades is finally here. The first manned flight to the planet Mars, the furthest terrestrial planet from the Sun. After a century of only dreaming, it has finally become a reality. So many years of planning went into making this first launch possible. Mars’ orbit is the most eccentric of any planet in the Solar System. At it’s fastest it moves at a speed of 26

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    Cloud –Based Energy Efficient Offloading Transcoding Service Policy Vaishali Y. Baviskar, Snehal Mandlik, Supriya Patil,Pallavi Sinha,Pooja Gopale Department of Computer Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University G.H.R.I.E.T., Wagholi , Pune,India Abstract-With the increasing variety of mobile applications, reducing the energy utilization of mobile devices is a major challenge in multimedia streaming applications. In this paper we investigate energy-efficient offloading policy for transcoding

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    sources of alternative energy not only in the country, but in the world. Solar energy is the conversion of power from the sun to usable electricity (Alternative Energy, 2014). The most common source of solar energy utilizes photovoltaic cells to convert sunlight into electricity (Alternative Energy, 2014). Photovoltaics use a semi-conductor to absorb the radiation from the sun, creating and emitting electrons, which are then harnessed and used as electricity (Alternative Energy, 2014). Pros of Solar

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    Solar Energy On one bright sunny day in July, as Victor was walking through the town where he was vacationing, he noticed something he had never seen before. Grid-like panels on top of a house sparked his curiosity. After returning to the hotel he was staying at, Victor asked to use the business center. He browsed the internet as he tried to figure out what the curious panels were. He eventually came across Solar panels in his search and he began to take an interest in the subject. Victor soon found

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    ABSTRACT The increasing demands of energy and oil, insecure energy resources and emission of hazardous gases have attracted the attention of the whole world towards renewable energy. In the world, at this time the future of energy is concentrated much amount on renewable energy sources as the fossil fuels are decreasing and becoming costly day by day. This proposes very simple, low cost, high reliable, photovoltaic monitoring system. Lab-view is a virtual programming code. So we can write simple

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    vacant resources of computer, increase the economic efficiency through improving utilization rate, and decrease the equipment energy consumption. Cloud Computing does not depend on special data center, but we can look it as the inevitable product of grid computing and efficiency computing. However, compared with general network service, Cloud Computing is easy to extend, and has a simple management style. Cloud is not only simply collecting the computer resource, but also provides a management mechanism

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    Environmental & Economical Impacts of Green Energy Generating and supplying more green energy in the US can have a big impact in the environment and in our economy. With more green energy resources a big amount disasters that affect our environment can be reduced. Such disasters include oil spills, nuclear leaks and the emission of harmful pollutants. Electric power plants are one of the biggest contributors to pollution in the country due to the amount of carbon and sulfur dioxides that are released

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    America Does NOT Need to Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Thesis: If the United States is going to choose to conserve energy responsibly, then our government's energies should not be focused on developing oil in the ANWR, but rather on the topics of conservation through higher fuel efficiency standards in vehicles and by developing alternative energy sources. Conservation, fuel efficiency and alternative energy sources are the solutions that will lead us

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