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Garg Vishal: Building Energy Simulation
Using DesignBuilder™

Building Energy Simulation Using DesignBuilder™

Epic, shocking, and deeply reported, The Elements of Power tells the story of the war for the global supply of battery metals—essential for the decarbonization of our economies—and the terrible, bloody human cost of this badly misunderstood industry Congo is rich. Swaths of the war-torn African country lack basic infrastructure, and, after many decades of colonial occupation, its people are officially among the poorest in the world. But hidden beneath the soil are vast quantities of cobalt, lithium, copper, tin, tantalum, tungsten, and other treasures. Recently, this veritable periodic table of resources has become extremely valuable because these metals are essential for the global “energy transition”—the plan for wealthy nations to wean themselves off fossil fuels by shifting to sustainable forms of energy, such as solar and wind. The race to electrify the world’s economy has begun, and China has a considerable head start. From Indonesia to South America to Central Africa, Beijing has invested in mines and infrastructure for decades. But the U.S. has begun fighting back with massive investments of its own, as well as sanctions and disruptive tariffs. In this rush for green energy, the world has become utterly reliant on resources unearthed far away and willfully blind to the terrible political, environmental, and social consequences of their extraction. If the Democratic Republic of the Congo possesses such riches, why are its children routinely descending deep into treacherous mines to dig with the most rudimentary of tools, or in some cases their bare hands? Why are Indonesia’s seas and skies being polluted in a rush for battery metals? Why is the Western Sahara, a source for phosphates, still being treated like a colony? Who must pay the price for progress? With unparalleled, original reporting, Nicolas Niarchos reveals how the scramble to control these metals and their production is overturning the world order, just as the global race to drill for oil shaped the twentieth century. Exploring the advent of the lithium-ion battery and tracing the supply chain for its production, Niarchos tells the story both of the people driving these tectonic changes and those whose lives are being upended. He reveals the true, devastating consequences of our best intentions and helps us prepare for an uncertain future. If you have ever used a smartphone or driven an electric vehicle, you are implicated.

“A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics . . . Niarchos has produced an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism.” —Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times best-selling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing Epic, shocking, and deeply reported, The Elements of Power tells the story of the war for the global supply of battery metals—essential for the decarbonization of our economies—and the terrible, bloody human cost of this badly misunderstood industry Congo is rich. Swaths of the war-torn African country lack basic infrastructure, and, after many decades of colonial occupation, its people are officially among the poorest in the world. But hidden beneath the soil are vast quantities of cobalt, lithium, copper, tin, tantalum, tungsten, and other treasures. Recently, this veritable periodic table of resources has become extremely valuable because these metals are essential for the global “energy transition”—the plan for wealthy nations to wean themselves off fossil fuels by shifting to sustainable forms of energy, such as solar and wind. The race to electrify the world’s economy has begun, and China has a considerable head start. From Indonesia to South America to Central Africa, Beijing has invested in mines and infrastructure for decades. But the U.S. has begun fighting back with massive investments of its own, as well as sanctions and disruptive tariffs. In this rush for green energy, the world has become utterly reliant on resources unearthed far away and willfully blind to the terrible political, environmental, and social consequences of their extraction. If the Democratic Republic of the Congo possesses such riches, why are its children routinely descending deep into treacherous mines to dig with the most rudimentary of tools, or in some cases their bare hands? Why are Indonesia’s seas and skies being polluted in a rush for battery metals? Why is the Western Sahara, a source for phosphates, still being treated like a colony? Who must pay the price for progress? With unparalleled, original reporting, Nicolas Niarchos reveals how the scramble to control these metals and their production is overturning the world order, just as the global race to drill for oil shaped the twentieth century. Exploring the advent of the lithium-ion battery and tracing the supply chain for its production, Niarchos tells the story both of the people driving these tectonic changes and those whose lives are being upended. He reveals the true, devastating consequences of our best intentions and helps us prepare for an uncertain future. If you have ever used a smartphone or driven an electric vehicle, you are implicated.

A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

The Elements of Power

Comprehensive reference on state-of-the-art aerospace materials, reviewing the latest developments in the field and providing guidance on machining challenges Grinding of Single-Crystal Superalloys provides a comprehensive understanding of grinding technology for single-crystal nickel-based superalloys. It explores and analyzes grinding mechanisms and characteristics using both theoretical and simulation approaches. Grinding behavior in conventional and micro grinding processes are evaluated and compared. The book assesses the surface integrity of single-crystal nickel-based superalloys under different grinding conditions. Simulation and theoretical models for predicting temperature and residual stresses in profile grinding, facilitating optimization, and control are summarized and validated. Grinding of Single-Crystal Superalloys discusses sample topics including: <li>Friction coefficient, wear volume, and wear rate during fretting</li> <li>Influence of material anisotropy and different crystal orientations</li> <li>Residual stress fields in grinding of single-crystal turbine blade roots</li> <li>Yield and failure criterion</li> <li>Analysis of formation mechanisms in nanostructures</li> Grinding of Single-Crystal Superalloys is an essential reference for industry professionals and researchers seeking to understand the machining theory and practice of this important type of material, especially in the field of aerospace components manufacturing.

Fundamentals and Technologies

Grinding of Single-Crystal Superalloys

Advances in Manufacturing, Design and Computational Intelligence Techniques

Trends, Scope, and Challenges

Sustainability in Smart Manufacturing

Resilience is a journey that shapes how we navigate challenges and grow through adversity. The Resilient Mindset: Engineering Strength Through Systems Thinking draws from the author's experiences in academic research, industry practice, and personal growth to explore resilience as a practical and transformative human process. By connecting the science of resilience with real-world challenges, this book offers a perspective on how individuals and systems alike can thrive under pressure and uncertainty.This book delivers tools and insights designed to help individuals thrive in an ever-changing world. Readers will discover academic insights, practical tools, and lived experiences that illuminate resilience as both a mindset and a skill in this title. Each chapter provides actionable strategies to enhance mental clarity, emotional adaptability, and long-term growth, supported by real-world examples and reflective exercises. It features examples of recovering from setbacks, adapting to changes and sustaining progress in the face of uncertainty through which it offers a clear and empowering path to building confidence and strength. Readers will learn how to navigate changes to the system and how they can stay resolute as processes and personnel change.This book is for anyone seeking to grow through life's challenges including human factors professionals, health and safety personnel, HR employees and business and management practitioners.

Engineering Strength Through Systems Thinking

The Resilient Mindset

Towards Sustainable Futures

This book demonstrates through lucid explanations and practical case studies how agricultural, horticultural and processed food waste-which is frequently perceived as a worldwide burden-can be used to promote sustainable agricultural methods. It demonstrates how these procedures, which encourage resource efficiency and waste reduction, are in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This book provides a clear manual for comprehending and using circular agriculture, making it suitable for anybody interested in sustainable solutions, such as policymakers, entrepreneurs, environmentalists and concerned citizens. It will also be of interest to researchers of science and technology, agriculture, law and public policy.

Food Waste Conversion into Vital Biofertilizers

Circular Agriculture

Power Plants offers an unflinching assessment of society's underappreciated but growing addiction to the industrial burning of crops and trees for energy. As vehicles increasingly run on fuels made from sugarcane and oil-palm, wood pellets replace coal, and scientists rush to engineer crops to produce renewable jet fuel, this book blows apart bioenergy's reputation as a simple, benign substitute for fossil fuels. Scrutinising modern bioenergy systems in the UK, Europe and United States, Power Plants shows how vegetal lifeforms are being enrolled to reinforce energy cultures centred around logics of efficiency, productivity and economic growth at all costs. Nonetheless, the book insists that a closer attention to plants could yet provoke a rethink of the social and economic purposes of all kinds of energy, with radical implications for ideas about growth, waste, prosperity and even pleasure.

Bioenergy, Vegetal Labour and the Politics of Productivity

Power Plants

RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric

An investigation into one of the largest and most lucrative mineral mining companies in the world, Rio Tinto, Extraction Politics reveals how the company constructs a presence in the places it operates and shapes meanings and orientations toward the environment. Taking readers on a "rhetorical pilgrimage" across the American Southwest, Nicholas Paliewicz shows how Rio Tinto creates adaptable corporate identities. From Ronald Reagan's frontiersman advertisements for the Borax Mine in California to the pioneer Mormon persona at Bingham Canyon Mine in Salt Lake City and the folksy, paternalistic perspective toward the San Carlos Apache at the proposed mine at Oak Flat, Arizona, the company appropriates local history to embed itself as a valued member of the public--without having to settle in those ecological communities and bear the costs of extraction. This does not occur without resistance, however. Paliewicz also shows how activists use these same tactics to expose Rio Tinto as an exploitative, colonialist polluter.In an era of surging demand for dwindling supplies of minerals and metals, this book previews what the future of extractivism may look like. Extraction Politics will appeal to scholars and students of environmental communication and activist politics as well as general readers interested in the climate crisis.

Rio Tinto and the Corporate Persona

Extraction Politics

An expert and up-to-date discussion of the properties and design of soft active material modeling In Multi-Field Modeling of Soft Active Materials: Properties and Design, Professor Rui Xiao delivers an up-to-date exploration of the multi-field modeling of soft active materials, including shape-memory polymers, liquid crystal elastomers, dielectric elastomers, magnetic elastomers, and hydrogels. The book provides a deep understanding of the underlying mechanisms of stimulus-response behaviors in polymers. The author provides guidance on future development of the theoretical approaches for active materials, as well as efficient tools to design functional soft machines composed of active materials. Readers will also find: <ul><li>A thorough introduction to the basics of continuum mechanics</li> <li>Comprehensive explorations of hyperelastic and viscoelastic models</li> <li>Thermodynamically consistent frameworks for multi-field coupling models</li> <li>Complete implementation procedures for finite element analysis</li></ul> Primarily aimed at graduate students and researchers in solid mechanics, materials science, and polymer physics, Multi-Field Modeling of Soft Active Materials is particularly relevant for those specializing in the soft materials and responsive polymers.

provides the general knowledge of developing multi-field models for stimulus-responsive polymers.

Properties and Design

Multi-field Modeling of Soft Active Materials

Dislocations

Through a series of case studies in diverse regions of the world, this book explores how transnational Norwegian energy and extractive industries handle corporate social responsibility (CSR) when operating abroad.

Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism

Reliable and Sustainable Electric Power and Energy Systems Management

This book discusses various aspects of future intelligent power grids, covering key topics including the operation of smart grids and microgrids, resource optimization, and energy management. Over the last few decades, the use of solar photovoltaics (PVs) and wind turbine generators has increased significantly in an effort to make future power systems sustainable. However, the intensive integration of renewables in existing electrical networks has raised several control and operational issues due to their limited dispatch capability and intermittent generation. In addition, integrating new electrical loads, such as those produced by electric vehicles, heat pumps, and electric water heaters, in existing distribution networks negatively impacts the power-balance scenario. As such, these developments present both challenges and opportunities for the research community.
 Against this backdrop, the book not only discusses the challenges and their potential solutions, but also outlines future research directions that could help make future power grids intelligent, adaptive, and resilient. It presents insights from academia, industry, and research institutions on understanding, modeling, and analyzing the control and operation of intelligent power grids of the future.

Discusses an intelligent architecture for future power grids and presents resiliency and reliability matrices of future power gridsExplores the optimization of sustainable microgrids, virtual power plants, and energy managementExamines the multi-agent system for distributed control and operation of distributed energy resources by focusing on modeling, control and operation of smart grids

Modeling, Planning, Control and Operation

Intelligent Power Grids of Tomorrow

Managing the Future: Sustainability Leadership in Energy offers an invaluable guide on how to lead sustainability within the energy sector by presenting real-world experiences of leaders who have successfully integrated sustainability into their operations. The book outlines the framework provided by the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), emphasizing practical strategies for achieving these goals. The book delves into various aspects, including Sustainability and ESG reporting, the intersection of Sustainability and Geoscience, and effective communication, vision, and strategy setting. It also highlights the contributions of academic leaders in advancing the 2030 UN Sustainability Agenda, and provides narratives from other sectors to illustrate common challenges and opportunities in corporate sustainability initiatives.

Sustainability Leadership in Energy

Managing the Future

Intelligent Urban Infrastructure: Smart Solutions for Sustainable Cities explores how emerging digital technologies are reshaping the design, management, and sustainability of modern cities. This comprehensive volume examines the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, and intelligent automation into critical urban systems such as transportation, energy, water management, healthcare, and public safety. It presents a forward-looking perspective on how infrastructure can evolve to become more adaptive, resilient, and environmentally responsible. The book highlights practical frameworks and technology-driven content that demonstrate measurable improvements in efficiency, cost optimization, and environmental performance. Designed for researchers, postgraduate students, urban planners, engineers, policymakers, and industry professionals, this book serves as a valuable reference for those seeking to understand and implement intelligent infrastructure solutions that enable smarter, greener, and more liveable cities worldwide.

Smart Solutions for Sustainable Cities

Intelligent Urban Infrastructure

Building Energy Simulation Using DesignBuilder™

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