Environmental Engineering: Designing a Sustainable Future

ISBN-13: 9780816072002 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 213 str.

Ph. D. Anne Maczulak; Anne E. Maczulak

Opis

Environmental engineering's future seems boundless because it is based in the myriad ways in which nature solves its own engineering challenges. People have yet to design a system that pumps water 200 feet straight up toward the sky in a system that is silent, requires no mechanical pumps, and never malfunctions, yet giant sequoia trees do this every day. Environmental engineering has a distance to go to mimic nature's activities, but fortunately, nature provides endless examples of processes like the sequoias' that maximize energy conservation.