לוח שנה משולב

In the history of many families, all that remains about the fate of an ancestor for whom all traces were lost are rumors, often in conflicting versions. One of the most gratifying pleasures of a genealogical quest is to unveil the true story. Selected examples taken from the lecturer’s personal history will demonstrate this.

By collocating machines and support systems, overall system cost can be lowered thereby helping to motivate adoption of environmentally friendly systems. In particular, the oceans represent a vast resource (and challenge) for humanity: Offshore wind turbines can harvest wind energy, and their base structures can also serve as platforms for aquaculture systems, systems to harvest scarce minerals from seawater, and wave energy systems. Excess power from solar PV and wind turbines can feed pumped storage hydropower systems collocated with reverse osmosis plants located near the ocean to provide all the power and fresh water for dry coastal regions with adjacent mountains such as regions in Australia, China, Iran, Lima, Morocco, Oman, Southern California, Southern Europe, and the UAE for example. To help reduce costs, new machines and processes can be developed for in-situ manufacturing of large systems from giant wind turbines to underground HVDC transmission lines.