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...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...