What are positive impacts of putting floating solar panels over a water body like the ocean or irrigation dams, rivers, canals ?

While there are increasing support for floating solar panels over water bodies I am researching and trying to find out more about the positive side effects, including environmental and...

09 October 2019 6,754 12 View

Looking for Meteorological data to use in Solar Resource Assessment and Energy Forecasting Modeling platform ?

Programs and online portals such as PVSyst and Helioscope help to design and scope photovoltaic systems and can help to asses resource scales. Custom designed open source software can do similar...

08 September 2015 858 2 View

On water evaporation control, anyone aware of studies/reports on evaporation rates for floating solar platforms, solar water blanket or water covers ?

Conducting environmental impact research on cleantech floating solar systems for sustainable agriculture at vineyards and wineries, in particular water savings in terms of water preservation and...

04 May 2015 5,443 13 View

To what extent is Indigenous Peoples' consent important in Social Impact Assessment, Environmental Impact Assessment or Sustainability studies ?

02 March 2015 1,878 55 View

Has any software been developed to optimize parameters in the context of the energy land-use nexus?

The energy-land use nexus provides a useful framework for defining policy to minimize points of conflict between energy goals and land conservation. We are looking for software algorithms or open...

01 February 2015 8,998 3 View

How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

01 June 2021 0 0 View

What is the best way to keep an anaerobic chamber anoxic in the absence of hydrogen?

I'm a graduate student who works with an anaerobe, so I often work in an anaerobic chamber. I've been working on an assay that involves the steady-state of the quinone/ quinol pool. Anoxic...

03 March 2021 2,971 1 View

How to quantify carbon deposition on CuZnAl catalyst?

Dear All, I want to quantify carbon deposition on the surface of the CuZnAl catalyst. I have tried thermogravimetric analysis, but I've got weight gain as the active Cu- get oxidised. Does anyone...

01 March 2021 1,907 3 View

Why Trivalent chromium start precipitating above PH 5 ? Moreover discuss difference between adsorption of chromium and precipitation of chromium ?

I am a student of MS Environmental Engineering and started my research phase. I am working on metal removal ( chromium iii ) by using activated carbon prepared from the agricultural feedstock. So...

01 March 2021 5,475 2 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

What are the harmful effects of these extreme rainfall on the health of newborns? What are the reasons for that?

Extreme rainfall associated with climate change is causing harm to babies in some of the most forgotten places.

01 March 2021 5,647 4 View

How to arrange coordinates and extract climate dataset out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files?

Have a nice day everyone, I'm stuck in extracting datasets out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files because the latitude ranges from -3*10^6 to 3*10^6 and longitude ranges -5,9*10^6 to 5,9*10^6. Plus, the...

28 February 2021 912 3 View

How the wettability of rock sample can be changed by ageing in pure hydrocarbon oils only?

I want to do wettability analysis of hydrocarbon oil (octane)/rock/surfactant solution system. but to do the analysis first I have to make rock surface oil-wet. Since hydrocarbon oil does not have...

27 February 2021 5,383 3 View

How can I assign a velocity along one direction to CO2 molecules in a molecular dynamics simulation using GROMACS?

Dear all, I am trying to perform a MD simulation about the interaction between CO2 and a polymer. I create my model, solvate it and perform the NVT and NPT equilibration. Now I am not able to...

26 February 2021 10,014 3 View

LEDs on Vis Light photo degradation of MB water sol via N doped TiO2 in a mini flume?

Good day to all, I have no experience with light emitting diodes. I am building a glass mini flume to demonstrate the photo degradation of Methylene Blue in water running over self cleaning...

26 February 2021 4,026 5 View