Interim solar cell testing procedures for terrestrial applications

This report presents an interim draft of procedures for testing solar cells for terrestrial applications that resulted from the terrestrial photovoltaic workshop sessions. A final version of the test procedures manual is planned for the summer of 1976

The Environmental Implications of the Discovery and Delivery of New Energy Resources in the Canada/U.S. Context

new energy resources--Canada, alternative energy resources--United State

The Environmental Implications of the Discovery and Delivery of New Energy Resources in the Canada/U.S. Context

new energy resources--Canada, alternative energy resources--United State

Custom and Land-Based Pollution of the High Seas

This article explores existing legal sources to determine whether customary international law applies to land-based pollution of the high seas. The author begins by defining some important terms including land-based pollution of the high seas and customary international law . The author then discusses customary international law as it applies to the high seas and makes analogies to international rivers, air pollution, the law of hostile expeditions, and outer space. The author addresses customary international law that has been in existence since 1958 including treaties, declarations of international bodies, and published commentary

Preliminary results from the advanced photovoltaic experiment flight test

The Advanced Photovoltaic Experiment is a space flight test designed to provide reference cell standards for photovoltaic measurement as well as to investigate the solar spectrum and the effect of the space environment on solar cells. After a flight of 69 months in low earth orbit as part of the Long Duration Exposure Facility set of experiments, it was retrieved in January, 1990. The electronic data acquisition system functioned as designed, measuring and recording cell performance data over the first 358 days of flight; limited by battery lifetime. Significant physical changes are also readily apparent, including erosion of front surface paint, micrometeoroid and debris catering and contamination

Fuel quality/processing study. Volume 4: On site processing studies

Fuel treated at the turbine and the turbine exhaust gas processed at the turbine site are studied. Fuel treatments protect the turbine from contaminants or impurities either in the upgrading fuel as produced or picked up by the fuel during normal transportation. Exhaust gas treatments provide for the reduction of NOx and SOx to environmentally acceptable levels. The impact of fuel quality upon turbine maintenance and deterioration is considered. On site costs include not only the fuel treatment costs as such, but also incremental costs incurred by the turbine operator if a turbine fuel of low quality is not acceptably upgraded

Pseudo-nitzschia blooms and physical oceanography off Washington State, USA

Blooms of harmful algal species occur along the Washington coast, usually as a fraction of the total phytoplankton population. Although more than 20 potentially harmful species have been identified along that coast,the most deleterious effects on public health and the economy are from Pseudo-nitzschia spp. and Alexandrium catenella. During three surveys conducted in early summer 1996, 1997 and 1998, high concentrations ofPseudo-nitzschia spp. (values of up to 106 cells.l-1, but generall

The Case to Preserve Criminal Jurisdiction Immunity Accorded Foreign Diplomatic and Consular Personnel in the United States

Recently proposed federal legislation would remove criminal jurisdiction immunity presently enjoyed as a matter of right by foreign diplomatic and consular personnel residing in the United States. Such legislation reflects, in the authors\u27 views, both a misplaced concern, expressed in the media and in the recent legal literature, about the threat posed to American society by diplomatic crime, and a misunderstanding of existing international and domestic law on diplomatic privileges and immunities. The authors oppose any alteration of the present law on grounds that it is unwarranted on the facts, that it would contravene international and domestic law, that it would be inconsistent with the foundational theories underlying criminal jurisdiction immunity, and that it would unnecessarily expose the United States diplomatic corps serving abroad to reciprocal, retaliatory action by other nations. The authors argue that the present law, if vigorously pursued when appropriate, affords ample deterrence and adequate remedies. The authors also reject suggestions to mandate any insurance schemes or compensation funds for victims of diplomatic crime on grounds that this is a matter better addressed through informal negotiation conducted on a case by case basis by the State Department with the foreign mission of the offender