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Preparation dyeing and finishing
Money & Business

Preparation dyeing and finishing

...energy as the amount needed to heat up smaller amount of water is less. The dye makers have also produced dyes that have higher exhaustion rates (the amount of dye that transfers form the liquor to the fibre) meaning there is less waste and the wash off required (to remove loose dyes) is much lower. This again saves time, water and energy. Finishing the fabric is both...
Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...energy, health and well-being. Multiplying targets existing infrastructure without simply adding more of the same. This may begin with policy design, for example, to introduce incentives for homeowners to retrofit oversized homes into flexible, multi-generation or non-traditional co-housing. Such incentives should increase for integrating food production, biodiversity,...
Design and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Sustainability

...Energy and Sustainability" and "Sustainable Communities". This material is taken from The Open University Course T307 Innovation: designing for a sustainable future... Design and Sustainability A short introduction to this album. Consumer product testing Representatives of Intertech, a product-testing company, discuss their methods of testing. Testing standards...
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...Energy levels are demonstrated in the context of a sodium lamp in Video 3. Watch it now and then do Activity 4. HELEN: So in the last experiment, we absolutely established that light can behave as a wave, but now we're going to show you something that shows that also lights can behave as a particle. So here I have an experiment which actually OU students get a chance to...
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...energy, water, land and labour as inputs, to maintain production and sustain output. Manufacturing also produces many waste products, a large number of which, if not treated carefully, and emitted to the environment, are pollutants and may be hazardous to the local population. An extreme example of the harm that can be done by the lax control of wastes is shown through...
Water jet cutting (Hydrodynamic cutting)
Science, Maths & Technology

Water jet cutting (Hydrodynamic cutting)

...energy per unit length of cut. Since there is no force perpendicular to the water jet and very little frictional drag in the cut, accurate fixing and positioning of the workpiece is easy. Single or multiple cutting heads can be used, and positioning can be by hand, CNC or optical tracing. Materials: A wide variety of materials, but most suitable for non-metallic materials...
12 famous Confucius quotes on education and learning
Education & Development

12 famous Confucius quotes on education and learning

...energy to spare, he should read widely to stay cultivated.] "At home, a young man should be a good son, when outside he should treat others like his brothers, his behaviour should be one of trustworthy and proper, and should love the multitude at large and keep himself close to people of benevolence and morality. If after all these activities, he has any energy to spare,...
How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?
Science, Maths & Technology

How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?

...Solar System in a human lifetime. However, with our present technology, or at least the technology that might come in the next century or so, we can imagine an amazing prospect. [Imagined vision of a spaceship passing above a distant planet] Consider a ship that leaves the Earth and takes 90 years to traverse the 10 light-years to a nearby star. The ship departs carrying...