Browsing Books by Faculty "Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment"

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Carbon capture and storage in South Africa

Author: Mwakasonda, Stanford ; Winkler, Harald Date: 2005 Some three-quarters of South Africa’s primary energy supply and 93 percent of its electricity are derived from coal (NER, 2002; DME, 2003b). Even in more optimistic energy policy scenarios (De Villiers and others, 1999; EDRC, 2003; Banks & ... Read more c b
Electricity supply options, sustainable development and climate change priorities: case studies for South Africa

Author: Winkler, Harald ; Mwakasonda, Stanford ; Garg, Amit ; Halsnaes, Kirsten ; Mukheibir, Pierre Date: 2007 This report summarizes the results of the Projecting future energy demand: Balancing development, energy and climate priorities in large developing economies project that has been managed by the UNEP Risø Centre on behalf of UNEP DTIE. The ... Read more
Making communities count: Maximising local benefit potential in South Africa's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (RE IPPPP)

Author: Tait, Louise ; Wlokas, Holle Linnea ; Garside, Ben Date: 2013 In South Africa, independent producers of renewable energy are invited to bid to take part in a large-scale, innovative, government-led scheme which aims to not only increase the share of renewable energy in the national grid, but also to ... Read more
Visual hulls from single uncalibrated snapshots using two planar mirrors

Author: Forbes, Keith ; Voigt, Anthon ; Bodika, Ndimi Date: 2004 Two mirrors are used to create five views of an object: a view onto the object, two reflections and two reflections of reflections. The five views are captured in a single snapshot. Epipolar geometry of the object’s five silhouettes is ... Read more
The Way of All Flesh: Reflections on the entropy at work on the buildings of Roelof Uytenbogaardt

Author: Kevin, Fellingham Date: 2017 Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. Instead of being made of natural materials, such as marble, granite: plastic, chrome, and electric light. They are ... Read more