Fuel cell technology is developing at a rapid pace, thanks to the increasing awareness of the need for pollution-free power sources. Moreover, new... developments in catalysts and improved reliability have made fuel cells viable candidates in a road range of applications, from small power stations, to cars, to laptop computers and mobile phones. Building on the success of the first edition, Fuel Cell Systems Explained presents a balanced introduction to this growing area. Fully revised and updated, this second edition: Provides an essential guide to the principles, design and application of fuel cell systems Includes full and updated coverage of fuel processing and hydrogen generation and storage systems Presents a full and clear explanation of the operation of all the major fuel cell types, and an introduction to possible future technology, such as biological fuel cells Features a new chapter on the direct methanol fuel cell Now includes examples of the modelling, design and engineering of real fuel cell systems Offers a clear overview of fuel cell operation and thermodynamics Provides coverage of the complete fuel cell system, including compressors, turbines, and the electrical and electronic sub-systems such as regulators, inverters, grid inter-ties, electric motors, and hybrid fuel cell/battery systems

For twenty-five years, the Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada was designated as the sole destination for disposal of the nation's accumulated... stockpiles of highly radioactive nuclear power and weapons wastes. Now the Obama administration has abandoned Yucca, and Congress must pass new laws to solve the resulting disposal crisis. Even as the federal government seeks to expand nuclear power, local communities and states are demanding a credible program for disposal of the wastes that we already have. The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, appointed by the Obama administration to develop a plan, is currently conducting hearings. The first comprehensive history and overview of U.S. nuclear waste law and regulation, Fuel Cycle to Nowhere traces sixty years of nuclear weapons programs, the growth of nuclear power, and their waste legacies, the rise of environmentalism, and the responses of federal agencies. Richard and Jane Stewart expertly analyze the changing policies for storing low-level waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, and high-level waste and for regulating their transport by rail and by truck. They also chronicle "a tale of two repositories"--one, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, known as WIPP, the world's only operating deep geologic nuclear waste disposal facility, which emerged from a contentious but ultimately successful struggle between federal and state interests; the other, Yucca Mountain, mandated top down by Congress and a failure. Fuel Cycle to Nowhere provides the critical information and analysis on the waste disposal issues and solutions that the commission, Congress, the administration, journalists, policymakers, and the public so urgently need.This book is a project of the Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP), a Vanderbilt University-led, multi-university consortium supported as a cooperative agreement by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental This book is a project of the Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP), a Vanderbilt University-led, multi-university consortium supported as a cooperative agreement by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management to support safe, effective, publicly credible, risk informed management of existing and future nuclear waste from government and civilian sources through independent strategic analysis, review, applied research and education.

One of the most important issues facing humanity today is the prospect of global climate change, brought about primarily by our prolific energy use and... heavy dependence on fossil fuels. Fueling Our Future: An Introduction to Sustainable Energy provides a concise overview of current energy demand and supply patterns. It presents a balanced view of how our reliance on fossil fuels can be changed over time so that we have a much more sustainable energy system in the near future. Written in a non-technical and accessible style, the book will appeal to a wide range of readers without scientific backgrounds.

4m, 2f / Dramatic Comedy Something is not right. There is a secret humidity in the air in a town where the breezes have been on strike for two... hundred years. Soledad thinks she is Alexis Carrington from Dynasty and feels itchy. Chaparro can't seem to scratch her itch anymore. Esteban might just be the man for the job. And Adela watches it all unfold as if it were a soap opera on TV. Maybe it is? Anything is possible in Fuente, an almost-real town, somewhere between where North America ends and South America begins. Fuente is a magically-real comedy set in a remote desert town about love, revenge, escape, and the perilous powers of Aquanet hairspray. "The play, Fuente, is powerful, moving and original, which after a three-year development process and a Herrick Theatre Foundation Prize for New Play, is being given a smartly staged, well acted world premiere at Boyd's smaller venue in Sheffield. Cram has written a small-scale at once real and mythical epic about love, vengeance and one's sense of place. The language is earthy (this is NOT a family show!) and poetic. The characters and their stories are sad but also funny enough to have the audience burst out laughing. The Garcia Marquez-like magic is amusingly propelled by a bottle of Aqua Net hair spray." - CurtainUp.com

A captivating 17th-century drama of peasants defending their honor against oppression by a feudal lord. This edition features an informative... introduction with background on Spanish theater of the era as well as on the dramatist's career and on the play itself. Features an excellent English-prose version on the pages facing the original Spanish.

Lope con esta obra aparece como el escritor que descubre al pueblo como personaje olectivo que actua en escena de una manera conjunta. La obra se... interpreta como el levantamiento del pueblo en su rebeldia contra el tirano, de cualquier condicion que este sea, en defensa de la libertad como principio politico general. (...)La peculiar condicion derl argumento de Fuente Ovejuna ha permitido que esta obra sea interpetada de muy diferentes formas y en muchos paises y que haya obtenido una gran difusion en el siglo XX. Hoy es una de las mas conocidas de Lope en el mundo.(De la introduccion de Maria Teresa Lopez Garcia-Berdoy)

Fuente Ovjuna irrumpio en el curso del siglo XIX y despues en el nuestro como una de las comedias que se destaco por entre las demas en forma... incontenible y no siempre por motivos estrictamente literarios. (...) Hay que esforzarse por comprender por que una comedia en la que Lope uso una tecnica de redaccion comun a las demas, valiendose de los consabidos recursos que convenian al publico de los corrales o teatros de la epoca, ha podido convertirse en esta obra que hoy es necesario conocer por tantos motivos que tocan a la cultura espanola y aun a la europea.(De la Introduccion de Francisco Lopez Estrada)

Fuente Ovejuna (C.1613) is the most famous and frequently performed play by the creator of Spanish theatre, Lope de Vega (1562-1635). Astonishingly... for its period, it celebrates the murder in 1476 of a nobleman, the Grand Commander of the Military Order of Calatrava, by the peasants he had oppressed, and their subsequent solidarity under torture. Fuente Ovejuna, however, is less a history lesson or political tract than an optimistic moral fable.

The 2010 Dramatists Guild Resource Directory is the official annual reference compiled by the Dramatists Guild. This up-to-date directory is an... authoritative reference for all playwrights. New to the 2010 edition: -highlights from our 2009 Writing a Synopsis Seminar -submission opportunities for special interests and non-traditional theater -Additional 10 minute play opportunities -a bibliography of helpful books for dramatists