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...Energy and Sustainability" and "Design and Sustainability". This material forms part of The Open University Course T307 Innovation: designing for a sustainable future... Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities A short introduction to this album. Demonstrating sustainability in Scotland A community designed to be sustainable, environmentally friendly and ecologically...

...Energy are fast reactors and thorium. ...Special topic 1: Fast reactors Nearly all of the reactors for the generation of electricity in operation are ‘thermal’ reactors, such as the PWR type described earlier. The term thermal refers to the slowing down of the fast neutrons emitted in nuclear fission (energies measured in MeV) to energies characteristic of the...

...energy, will be explored. You will also look at the various types of particle reactions, and the fundamental interactions that govern their behaviour. Subatomic particles are the building blocks of the Universe and an understanding of the reactions between these particles is crucial in order to have an appreciation of how the Universe works, how it began, and how we came...

...energy for this kind of exercise, it’s darn hot out in the desert? So let’s see if we can work out how much energy our ambulance crew would expend to get that truck up the slope. One way of doing this is to use trigonometry. What the crew are effectively doing is lifting the truck up vertically from the bottom of the slope to the top. We know that they have a distance...

...energy, biodiversity and community resilience – social-ecological systems on which we all depend. However, design professionals working with services and hardware such as products and buildings typically prioritise the social and technical aspects of systems. Creating conditions for resilience requires us to develop and practise ecologically literate ways of designing...