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Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...energy system and many different ways of doing things, but that doesn’t have to not mean the creation of jobs and happy people working in a healthy economy. RH: Well at the moment the projections for over this century, almost all of them project that we will overshoot the level of CO2 that’s associated with a rise of 2 Celsius, and then by the back end of the century...
My career goal: Environment
Nature & Environment

My career goal: Environment

...energy? Find out how you can gather skills and carry out work that will have a real impact on our relationship with the environment...This video explores the conflicts of interest between local people, visitors, quarrying and farming in the Peak District National Park. Park Rangers often try to resolve disagreements such as these. Transcript icould links icould is a site...
The Large Hadron Collider
Science, Maths & Technology

The Large Hadron Collider

...energy collisions will reveal. The audio tracks feature Dr Stephen Serjeant and Dr David Broadhurst from The Open University and Dr Dan Faircloth and Dr Bruce Kennedy from the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. They share their passion for this immense machine that will recreate, on a tiny scale, conditions that existed just after...
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...energy it generates. You will learn about how it can affect your health and well-being, and how different climates design their homes differently to maximise the benefits of the Sun...This free course, Seeing the light, will teach you about how the Sun affects your home, both in terms of light and warmth and the energy it generates. You will learn about how it can affect...
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Magneform (electromagnetic assembly and forming)
Science, Maths & Technology

Magneform (electromagnetic assembly and forming)

...energy rate, cold forming technique that reshapes metals without physical contact. When an electric current generates pulsed opposing magnetic fields near the metal, a controllable pressure is created...Three main concepts [Images to demonstrate 'Magneform (electromagnetic assembly and forming)' - see article ] Bulging or expansion ring [Images to demonstrate 'Magneform...
Thermal spraying (Hardfacing)
Science, Maths & Technology

Thermal spraying (Hardfacing)

...energy into molten material (1/5 of the energy of plasma arc and 1/9 of the energy of flame processes). Although plasma arc has a high capital cost and high operating cost, and requires complicated support services, it is the most versatile of the thermal spray processes, giving excellent coating properties with almost any material. The high operating temperatures...
Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?
Nature & Environment

Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?

...energy, that sees green regulations as a barrier to business, and was trying to reach climate change targets in the most market-based… way possible. We are likely to get this more so now as the right of the party is stronger than it was.” A Dirty Brexit allows the British government to perform a bonfire of air pollution regulations, and a Conservative-led...
How Do Batteries Work?
Science, Maths & Technology

How Do Batteries Work?

...energy into electricity, heres an explainer on how a battery works...What is an electric current? Within every atom there’s a tiny, positively charged nucleus surrounded by a number of even smaller, negatively charged particles called electrons. The electrons each carry the same amount of negative charge. The charge on the nucleus is equal in size to the total charge of...