The 'Specific evidentness' of contemporary radical landscape poetry:Innovative form and spatial presence in <i>The Ground Aslant</i>

This article attempts to account for the spatialization of language in a selection of radical landscape poems from Harriet Tarlo's 2011 anthology, The Ground Aslant. Following Merleau-Ponty, I suggest that the poems share a 'specific evidentness' with objects and phenomena in the environment, which unsettles ontological hierarchies in which artworks, including poems, 'represent' the world. On the other hand, I understand confidence in the ontological reality of that world to relate in important ways to the possibility of artistic representation, as Alva Noë and Martin Seel propose. Radical landscape poems offer a way out of the tension between the artwork as representation of something, and as object with phenomenal presence, in that they are both 'seen' and 'seen through', according to Lyotard's formulation in Discourse, Figure.</p

Walking Women:Embodied Perception in Romantic and Contemporary Radical Landscape Poetry

Reading early Wordsworth through Adorno, this article suggests that Romantic walking entails the subjugation of external objects through the exercise of an imperial and elevated perception. It then considers Dorothy Wordsworth’s influence over her brother and the possibility that a Romantic ‘eco-poetic’ emerges from the ‘feminine’ perspective 'below' the mountain, and within the domestic landscape. I argue that this gesture away from walking and mountaineering as the demonstration of physical prowess, or as the pursuit of a real or ideal goal, is taken up by three contemporary women poets of landscape. Harriet Tarlo, Frances Presley and Helen Macdonald offer different ways of walking, which dispense with goal-orientation, explore the ethical choices available to perceptual beings, and attempt a more immersive, embodied engagement with the land. Their contribution to contemporary ‘radical landscape poetry’ combines the feminist discourse of ‘situated knowledge’ with an implicitly enactivist approach to human encounters with the environment

The Nimbus II Data Code Experiment

Nimbus II Data Code information for acquiring and locating Automatic Picture Transmission and Direct Readout Infrared Radiometer dat

Insulation strength of CF3I-CO2 gas mixtures as an alternative to SF6 in MV switch disconnectors

This paper evaluates the insulation performance of gas mixtures of trifluoroiodomethane and carbon dioxide (CF3I-CO2) in a medium voltage switch disconnector. Practical testing compares the results of CF3I-CO2 against SF6 to examine whether CF3I-CO2 could be a viable alternative when directly substituted into manufactured switch disconnectors in a purely insulating role. Positive standard lightning impulses were applied to the MV switchgear to determine whether CF3I-CO2 can maintain the withstand voltage for which the switch disconnector is rated when filled with SF6. The results show that certain gas mixtures of CF3I-CO2, with a higher concentration of CF3I, could be used to insulate switch disconnectors against standard lightning impulses at the rated pressure

Studies of Tiros and Nimbus radiometric observations Final report

Data analyses of Tiros and Nimbus radiometric observation

Solid by-products of a CF3I-CO2 insulating gas mixtures on electrodes after lightning impulse breakdown

This paper investigates the solid by-products of CF3I–CO2 gas mixtures and their proposed use as an alternative insulation medium in gas insulated switchgear and lines. The deposited by-products of a 30%–70% CF3I–CO2 gas mixture are experimentally investigated using stainless steel, aluminium and copper contacts whilst a standard 50 kV lightning impulse is used to cause electrical breakdown in the gas mixture. Following breakdown, the accumulated by-products over the electrodes surface were examined using an imaging microscope and scanning electron microscope. This paper discusses the results of microscope analysis on the surface of the electrodes and explores the effects that the detected by-products could have on high voltage CF3I–CO2 gas insulated equipment

Evaluation of SF6 leakage from gas insulated equipment on electricity networks in Great Britain

This paper examines the data collected from the power industry over the last six years of actual reported emissions of sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and the potential impact. The SF6 emissions have been collated from the 14 different regions in England, Scotland, and Wales (Great Britain) from the six distribution network operators. The emissions of SF6 due to the transmission network of Great Britain have also been collated from the three different transmission network operators. By collecting this SF6 emissions data from the power industry, in both the distribution and transmission networks, an overall view of the scale of SF6 emissions in Great Britain can be evaluated. Data from the power industry also shows the inventory of SF6 power equipment in use over the last six years in Great Britain and shows the calculated percentage leakage rate of all of this equipment. In this paper, these figures, as reported by the electrical power industry to the UK government, have been used to estimate the likely inventory of SF6 equipment in England, Scotland, and Wales by 2050 and the future emissions of SF6 that could be leaked into the atmosphere by this equipment

Breakdown performance of vacuum circuit breakers using alternative CF3I-CO2 insulation gas mixture

In this paper, sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) insulated vacuum interrupter circuit breakers have been used to explore replacing SF6 gas with a trifluoroiodomethane and carbon dioxide (CF3I-CO2) gas mixture. The search for an alternative insulation gas is driven by the well known extreme global warming potential of SF6. For this purpose, the circuit breaker gas compartment of a piece of gas insulated switchgear (GIS) was filled with a CF3I gas mixture and then tested using lightning impulses up to the rated withstand strength. The tested ring main unit was initially designed to be insulated with SF6 gas. The unit is a three-phase switchgear containing two switches per phase; a selector interlock and a vacuum bottle circuit breaker per phase. The test programme performed in this investigation demonstrated the breakdown performance and insulation strength of the new gas mixture as well as the vacuum circuit breakers behavior when insulated with a new insulation medium. Data on the dielectric properties of the proposed gas mixture is presented, and the performance of the tested vacuum circuit breaker is discussed. Promising results are obtained which indicate the suitability of this more-environmentally friendly gas for high voltage insulation purposes

An Investigation of Superpages

The emulation of superblocks is a natural quandary. In this paper, authors disconfirm the evaluation of rasterization. Here we verify that while write-back caches and the Ethernet can agree to achieve this purpose, Lamport clocks can be made distributed, peer-to-peer, and metamorphic

Meteorological interpretation of Nimbus High Resolution Infrared /HRIR/ data

Nimbus satellite high resolution infrared photographic data analysi