Auto Consumption Research Articles

AC POWER REGULATION TECHNIQUES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES

This article explores different AC power regulation techniques that can be employed to optimize the output of renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power systems. The article provides an overview of the challenges associated with regulating AC power output from renewable sources and examines various techniques that can be used to improve the performance of power regulation systems. These techniques include voltage control, phase control, reactive power compensation, and power factor correction. The article also discusses the benefits and limitations of each technique, as well as their potential applications in renewable energy systems. Overall, this article provides valuable insights for engineers and researchers working to optimize power auto consumption in renewable energy systems.

Wind Resource Assessment: Analysis of the Vortex Bladeless Characteristics in Puerto Cortés, Honduras

In the department of Cortés, many cities such as San Pedro Sula and Choloma truly invest in auto consumption installations for the residential and commercial sector; however, Puerto Cortés being one of the most prominent cities in Honduras, currently lacks any incentive of interest from its residents or authorities to implement distributive generation of any kind. Under this criterion, it was sought to study a renewable alternative distinct from solar energy suitable for its implementation in Puerto Cortés; Vortex Bladeless being a new concept in wind energy technology. A technical analysis was performed for the Vortex NANO device in situ to develop projections for a Vortex Tacoma device under the same conditions. The electrical performance of the device, the behavior of the wind resource and the power coefficient (Cp) were determined; analysis and results are based of the collected date on the 3rd quarter of the year. A demand analysis (load profile) in the residential sector to determine the range covered with one (1) Vortex Tacoma device given its projections.

Mad as Hell: Property Taxes and Financial Distress

Taxes on land and property are efficient in theory but uniquely unpopular in practice, and have been curtailed in 46 states. Unlike other taxes, property taxes may create financial distress when rising home values raise property tax bills but not incomes. I find that even modest tax hikes create distress: a $50 monthly tax hike increases mortgage delinquency by 9% and reduces auto consumption by $15. Homeowners report being able but unwilling to draw on housing wealth, and cite debt aversion as a key factor. Distortionary income-based relief reduces property tax animus, which is concentrated in counties that do not limit how much rising home values can raise property taxes. These findings suggest that financial distress makes efficient property taxation politically infeasible.

Online 3-h forecasting of the power output from a BIPV system using satellite observations and ANN

Photovoltaic (PV) systems are the reference technology in the solar-based electricity generation market. Rapid changes in solar radiation can alter PV power output; for this reason, knowledge of future atmospheric scenarios helps system operators to control the PV production in advance, reducing the instabilities that the electrical grid may suffer in electricity integration, and managing the auto consumption power output. With this is mind, we present a model to forecast (up to 3 h ahead) the building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) system’s power output, which is installed on the roof of the Solar Energy Research Center (CIESOL), Almería, Spain. The satellite images have been combined with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) primarily to predict power output using the lowest number of input variables. The results, which can be considered highly satisfactory, demonstrate the ANN’s prediction accuracy with an normalized root mean square error for all sky conditions of less than 26%, and with practically no deviation. We demonstrate how beneficial matching of two already proven techniques can bring about spectacular results in energy generation prediction for the BIPV system.

WELFARE ANALYSIS OF THE VEHICLE QUOTA SYSTEM IN CHINA

This article presents a welfare analysis of the vehicle quota system of Shanghai, China. The empirical findings suggest that the quota system leads to both welfare loss as a result of reduction in vehicle transactions and welfare gain because of less externality of auto consumption. The net effect depends on the shadow price of the marginal externality, the assumption of vehicle lifetime, and market conditions such as consumers' intrinsic preference for vehicles. Compared to a progressive tax system, the quota system is less effective in vehicle control but more efficient in improving social welfare.

Will the financial crisis become the turning point for China's auto industry? A dynamic computable general equilibrium analysis with imperfect competition

Following the substantial damage from the financial crisis in 2008, can China's auto industry successfully take up new challenges and grasp the opportunities ahead? First and foremost, this paper summarises the ways that the financial crisis has impacted upon China's economy. By analysing the impacts based on the MCHUGE model, the paper concludes that reductions in export demand and consumption expectations have limited impact on China's auto industry, while the comparative reduction in investment expectations has a great impact on China's auto industry. The paper builds the MCHUGE model with imperfect competition in order to assess whether China's auto industry, characterised as an oligopoly, could successfully accept such a challenge. The conclusion of this paper indicates that the damage to China's auto industry caused by the financial crisis would appear even more serious if the static effect of an oligopoly was the only consideration. Finally, by simulating the implementation of the Revitalisation Plans of the Automobile Industry, it is concluded that the revitalisation policy aims to boost auto consumption and will thus bring new opportunities for China's auto industry; on the other hand, the mergers and acquisitions between and among auto industries, as well as the relevant potential technology progress and the popularisation of new energy automobiles, will further promote the development of China's auto industry.

An international panorama of goat selection and breeds

The preservation of the biodiversity of animal breeds is an important condition to maintain the ability of animal production to adapt to the changing conditions of breeding and production systems in the future. The decrease of the number of animal breeds has been observed both for sheep, cattle and goats in relation with the standardisation and intensification of animal production systems. Goats are mainly concerned by the situation as they have the biggest increase in livestock numbers in 20 years. A global overlook of goats worldwide is showing a contradictory situation: On one hand, small but well organised sectors have developed in a few countries for milk and cheese, meat and fibre production. On the other hand, most of the goats are mostly still used for auto consumption of milk meat and skin or fibres in village herds. The present goat genetic situation is the direct consequence of this evolution with the high specialisation of a small number of selected and well characterised breeds for milk, meat and fibres and a majority of not well defined populations and local breeds, generally without selection schemes and organisation. A global panorama of the main families and breeds is presented. A special consideration is then pointed on the necessary financial and logistic conditions to achieve successively these selection objectives. After having observed that in many cases these conditions are not present, this report concludes by some proposals to control better the possibilities of success and express with more efficiency the genetic potentiality of this interesting species.

Environmental sociology: from analysis to action

Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Environmental Problems Require Social Solutions, Deborah McCarthy and Leslie King Imagining Nature 1.Nature's Looking Glass, Hillary Angelo and Colin Jerolmack Political Economy 2.Why Ecological Revolution?, John Bellamy Foster 3.The Tragedy of the Commodity: The Overexploitation of the Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna Fishery, Stefano B. Longo and Rebecca Clausen 4.Ecological Modernization at Work? Environmental Policy Reform in Sweden at the Turn of the Century, Benjamin Vail 5.A Tale of Contrasting Trends: Three Measures of the Ecological Footprint in China, India, Japan, and the United States, 1961-2003, Richard York, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz Environmental Inequalities 6.Breaking the Food Chains: An Investigation of Food Justice Activism, Alison Hope Alkon and Kari Marie Norgaard 7.Turning Public Issues into Private Troubles: Lead Contamination, Domestic Labor, and the Exploitation of Women, Lois Bryson, Kathleen McPhillips, and Kathryn Robinson 8.Addressing Urban Transportation Equity in the United States, Robert D. Bullard Social Construction of the Environment, Identity, Emotions and Community 9.Wild Horses and the Political Ecology of Nature Restoration in the Missouri Ozarks, J. Sanford Rikoon 10. People Want to Protect Themselves a Little Bit: Emotions, Denial, and Social Movement Nonparticipation, Kari Marie Norgaard 11.Community Economic Identity: The Coal Industry and Ideology Construction in West Virginia, Shannon Elizabeth Bell and Richard York Perspectives on Disaster 12.Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis, Thomas D. Beamish 13.The BP Disaster as an Exxon Valdez Rerun, Liesel Ashley Ritchie, Duane A. Gill, J. Steven Picou Globalization 14.The Unfair Trade-off: Globalization and the Export of Ecological Hazards, Daniel Faber 15.Driving South: The Globalization of Auto Consumption and Its Social Organization of Space, Peter Freund and George Martin Science, Risk and Knowledge 16.Risk Society and Contested Illness: The Case of Nuclear Weapons Workers, Sherry Cable, Thomas E. Shriver, and Tamara L. Mix 17.The Knowledge-Shaping Process: Elite Mobilization and Environmental Policy, Eric Bonds 18.Hurricane Katrina, Contamination, and the Unintended Organization of Ignorance, Scott Frickel and M. Bess Vincent 19.Media Framing of Body Burdens: Precautionary Consumption and the Individualization of Risk, Norah MacKendrick Social and Environmental Change - Ideas and Actions 20.Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?, Michael Maniates 21.Cleaning the Closet: Toward a New Fashion Ethic, Juliet Schor 22.Poitics by Other Greens: The Importance of Transnational Environmental Justice Movement Networks, David Naguib Pellow 23.On the Trail of Courageous Behavior, Myron Glazer and Penina Glazer

INFLUENCE OF THE GIBBERELIC ACID ON THE GERMINATION OF THE SEEDS OF OLIVE-TREE Olea europea L.

Olea europea L. is a typical tree of the Mediterranean area where are concentrated 98% of the plantations and 90% of the world olive-growing production [6]. In Algeria, Olea europea L, arboricole species most significant following the surface occupies [14], which is 2,3% of the total surface of Algeria. Algerian oleiculture is divided into 3 zones: West, center and East. For his multiplication we used at olive- tree, two types of methods: in first the traditional methods (woody layering, division of the stocks, grafting) thus the vegetative way which is practised there or olivetree cultivates in an extensive way being intended for auto consumption and in second by modern methods carried out in seedbeds (layer herbaceous, sowing, grafting, culture in vitro) which is delicate but of prospect [6,8,9]. The modern methods of obtention of the improved plants and a good quality envisages utilisation of the cores to the reproduction. Out the cores of olive tree are reached by the phenomenon of dormancy, phenomenon which prevents obtention of the good results to the multiplication, reason for which the study of different the concentration from Gibberelic acid (GA3) on germination from the seeds of olive-tree, Chemlal variety, answered in Algeria was started. The results obtained are encouraging and deserve to be used in practice.

Driving South: The globalization of auto consumption and its social organization of space

Driving South: The globalization of auto consumption and its social organization of space