The Rogue’s Dangerous Confession (Dangerous Desires Book 3)

✍ Scribed by Ella Edon

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 254 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B087M2BKTK

✦ Synopsis

[Pt]. 3. Nukes -- 8. Radioactivity and death -- Radiation and cancer -- Thelinear effect -- TheChernobyl Nuclear Reactor disaster -- Thelinear hypothesis -- 9. Radioactive decay -- Dangers of short versus long half-lives -- Environmental radioactivity -- Horrific mutations -- X-rays and microwaves -- Is radioactivity contagious? -- 10. Nuclear weapons -- Thekey to an explosion: the nuclear chain reaction -- World War II and the Manhattan Project -- Critical mass -- the first atomic secret -- Hiroshima -- the simple bomb design -- Thehard part -- purifying uranium-235 -- Centrifuges -- Theplutonium bomb -- an implosion design -- Thehydrogen bomb -- Fallout -- Big bombs -- Smaller weapons, more destruction -- 11. Nuclear madness -- Theneutron bomb and the weapons paradox -- Nuclear proliferation -- How worried should we be? -- Nukular weapons -- 12. Nuclear power -- Can a nuclear reactor explode like an atomic bomb? -- Manufacturing plutonium -- Fast breeder reactors -- TheChina Syndrome -- Three Mile Island -- fuel meltdown -- Chernobyl -- a runaway chain reaction -- Pebble bed reactors -- 13. Nuclear waste -- My confession -- Plutonium -- Depleted uranium -- 14. Controlled fusion -- Tokamak -- Laser fusion -- Cold fusion -- Nukes : presidential summary.;24. Thefruit of the ground -- Comfortable conservation -- Compact fluorescent lights -- Cool colors : when brown paint is white -- Reason for optimism : Rosenfeld's law -- Thefizzling population bomb -- Automobile efficiency -- 25. New technologies -- Biofuels -- Concentrating solar -- Safe nukes -- Clean coal -- Carbon credits -- Renewable energy -- Global warming : presidential summary -- the buck stops here -- Notes -- Index.;Introduction -- [pt]. 1. Terrorism -- 1. Nine-eleven -- Inspecting passengers -- Taking control -- Flying and navigating the airplane -- Impact -- 2. Terrorist nukes -- Big nukes -- Theterrorist dirty bomb -- Rogue nukes -- Uranium bombs -- Plutonium bombs -- 3. Thenext terrorist attack -- Future airplane gasoline attacks -- Bombs on airplanes -- 4. Biological terrorism -- Theanthrax attack -- Terrorism : presidential summary -- [pt]. 2. Energy -- 5. Key energy surprises -- Why we love oil -- Power -- Energy alternatives -- Th ebottom line : the cost of energy -- 6. Solar power -- Ananecdote -- Basic facts -- Solar power plants -- Solar airplanes -- 7. Theend of oil -- Oil from coal : Fischer-Tropsch -- Theprice of oil -- Energy : presidential summary.;[Pt]. 4. Space -- 15. Space and satellites -- Satellite orbits : LEO, GEO, and MEO -- GPS : a set of medium-Earth-orbit satellites -- Spy satellites -- Rocket science -- 16. Gravity applications -- g's -- Using gravity to search for ice, oil, hidden craters, and secret tunnels -- Space industry : manufacturing in a weightless environment -- Gravity on the Moon and asteroids -- Artificial gravity -- TheX Prize -- 17. Humans in space -- 18. Spying with invisible light -- Infrared radiation -- Remote sensing of the Earth -- Military special ops -- Stinger missiles -- Radar and stealth -- Radar imaging -- X-ray backscatter -- Space : presidential summary -- [pt]. 5. Global warming -- 19. Abrief history of climate -- Theclimate of the past 14,000 years -- 20. Thegreenhouse effect -- Carbon dioxide -- Calculating greenhouse warming -- Another danger : acid oceans -- Theozone hole -- 21. Avery likely cause -- Doing something about it : Alaska -- 22. Evidence -- Distortion -- Exaggeration -- Cherry picking -- News bias -- Thehockey stick -- Carbon dioxide and ancient climate -- Science and propaganda -- 23. Nonsolutions -- Hydrogen hype -- Electric automobiles -- Fusion -- Solar power -- Recycling -- Kyoto.