Electrifying the Underground
Electrifying the Underground

Author: Graeme Gleaves

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2014-02-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 144562219X

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The arrival of electric traction transformed London's fledgling underground system from a limited number of sub-surface lines into the network of deep-level tunnels we know today.

Underground Thermal Energy Storage
Underground Thermal Energy Storage

Author: Kun Sang Lee

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1447142721

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Underground thermal energy storage (UTES) provide us with a flexible tool to combat global warming through conserving energy while utilizing natural renewable energy resources. Primarily, they act as a buffer to balance fluctuations in supply and demand of low temperature thermal energy. Underground Thermal Energy Storage provides an comprehensive introduction to the extensively-used energy storage method. Underground Thermal Energy Storage gives a general overview of UTES from basic concepts and classifications to operation regimes. As well as discussing general procedures for design and construction, thermo-hydro geological modeling of UTES systems is explained. Finally, current real life data and statistics are include to summarize major global developments in UTES over the past decades. The concise style and thorough coverage makes Underground Thermal Energy Storage a solid introduction for students, engineers and geologists alike.

The Tube
The Tube

Author: Oliver Green

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-11-20

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 0747812896

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From Norman Foster's remarkable station at Canary Wharf to the Yellow-brick vaults of Baker street to the Art Deco exuberance of Arnos Grove, London's tube stations are among its most distinctive and iconic buildings. This beautiful hardback edition is a fantastic gift-book, publishing in the run up to Christmas, and sales will be boosted even further by the much-loved network's 150th anniversary in 2013.

London Underground
London Underground

Author: David Ashford

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2013-05-10

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1781387087

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Surveying an unusually wide variety of material, ranging from the Victorian triple-decker novel, to Modernist art and architecture, to Pop music and graffiti, this book suggests that the tube-network is a transitional form, linking the alienated spaces of Victorian England to the virtual spaces of our contemporary consumer-capitalism.