Atmospheric electrode effect: Approximate theory and wintertime observations

Summary The steady-state equations of the atmospheric electrode effect, i.e. the depletion of negative ions near the ground, are solved analytically in an approximate way. The presence of monodisperse aerosol is included. The method is based on the assumption that the positive ion density remains nearly, although not strictly, constant with height. The results show explicitly the effect of various parameters on the electrode layer. In particular, the height is directly proportional to the current density, and it depends on aerosol density only through the influence of the aerosol on the current density. The results are used to give a tentative explanation, in terms of the electrode effect, to an observed wintertime difference of the two polar conductivities.     

Electric charge separation in severe storms

This paper proposes a new model for thunderstorm electric field generation which directly utilizes the dynamic turbulent motion to separate the charges. Postulating a microphysical charge separation mechanism, such as is commonly accepted in most other theories, and which places a negative charge on the larger particles with a positive charge on the smaller ones, it is described how evaporation and cooling at the tops of small cumuli will release the positive charges as ions. These ions migrate to the surrounding cloud as the cooled parcel, with negatively charged particles in it, sinks down through the cloud. Since the sinking parcel contains mostly ice, it will be more buoyant than its surroundings when it reaches rising regions of water cloud, and hence should come to rest near the –10°C level. Thus the cloud will acquire an accumulation of negative charge at about this level before substantial hydrometeors begin falling out of it.     

Effects of geomagnetic activity on the mesospheric electric fields

The results of three series of rocket measurements of mesospheric electric fields carried out under different geomagnetic conditions at polar and high middle latitudes are analysed. The measurements show a clear dependence of the vertical electric fields on geomagnetic activity at polar and high middle latitudes. The vertical electric fields in the lower mesosphere increase with the increase of geomagnetic indexes K_p and K_p. The simultaneous increase of the vertical electric field strength and ion conductivity was observed in the mesosphere during geomagnetic disturbances. This striking phenomenon was displayed most clearly during the solar proton events of October, 1989 accompanied by very strong geomagnetic storm (K_p = 8+). A possible mechanism of generation of the vertical electric fields in the mesosphere caused by gravitational sedimentation of charged aerosol particles is discussed. Simultaneous existence in the mesosphere of both the negative and positive multiply charged aerosol particles of different sizes is assumed for explanation of the observed V/m vertical electric fields and their behaviour under geomagnetically disturbed conditions.Paper Presented at the Second IAGA/ICMA (IAMAS) Workshop on Solar Activity Forcing of the Middle Atmosphere, Prague, August 1997     

南极中山站大气电场基本特征

本文是有关中山站大气电场观测资料的分析报告,主要介绍基本观测情况,地面大气电场平均特征,包括各种时间尺度的频谱特征、季节变化、不同天气状态的典型电场特征。     

J2EE在电力系统工作票信息化管理中的应用--从C/S模式到B/S多层模式的转换

介绍了传统C／S模式在电力工作票管理信息系统中的应用及其问题，同时介绍J2EE多层分布式体系结构在工作票管理系统中应用的可行性。通过对传统C／S电力系统工作票管理系统的分析，提出将J2EE应用于工作票管理系统的思想并进行实践。     

高密度激发极化法测量在峪耳崖金矿区的应用

运用美国生产的高密度电法仪器对峪耳崖金矿区16~28线进行了测量。该仪器可同时测得视电阻率和视充电率2种数据,并可自动成图和地形改正。通过高密度电法工作圈定了地表较浅部的矿化异常区,除主要矿化异常赋存于岩体接触带外,在灰岩中也发现高极化异常区,表明在灰岩地层内也存在金属硫化物矿化现象,这为下一步找矿工作提供了新的思路和方向。通过钻探结果确定该矿区异常区有2种类型,即高阻高充电异常和低阻高充电异常,主要分布在岩性的接触带附近,尤其是内接触带。     

Might electricity consumption cause urbanization instead? Evidence from heterogeneous panel long-run causality tests

The share of a population living in urban areas, or urbanization, is both an important demographic, socio-economic phenomenon and a popular explanatory variable in macro-level models of energy and electricity consumption and their resulting carbon emissions. Indeed, there is a substantial, growing subset of the global modeling literature that seeks to link urbanization with energy and electricity consumption, as well as with carbon emissions. This paper aims to inform both modelers and model consumers about the appropriateness of establishing such a link by examining the nature of long-run causality between electricity consumption and urbanization using heterogeneous panel methods and data from 105 countries spanning 1971–2009. In addition, the analysis of the time series properties of urbanization has implications both for modelers and for understanding the urbanization phenomenon. We consider total, industrial, and residential aggregations of electricity consumption per capita, three income-based panels, and three geography-based panels for non-OECD countries. The panel unit root, cointegration, and causality tests used account for cross-sectional dependence, nonstationarity, and heterogeneity – all of which are present in the data set. We cannot reject pervasively Granger causality in the urbanization to electricity consumption direction. However, the causality finding that is both the strongest and most similar across the various panels is that of long-run Granger causality from electricity consumption to urbanization. In other words, the employment and quality of life opportunities that access to electricity afford likely encourage migration to cities, and thus, cause urbanization. Also, nearly all countries’ urbanization series contained structural breaks, and the most recent post-break annual change rates suggested that nearly all countries’ rates of urbanization change were slowing. Lastly, future modeling work on energy consumption or carbon emissions should consider subnational scales of analysis, and focus on measures of urban density or urban form rather than national urbanization levels.     

Competing discourses of energy development: The implications of the Medupi coal-fired power plant in South Africa

This study explores the discursive dynamics behind the controversy to build the US$17.8 billion 4800 MW Medupi coal-fired power plant in South Africa, the seventh largest in the world. It begins by viewing climate change and energy security not as objective fact driven concepts, but constantly negotiated discourses. Based on a sampling of project documents, reports, testimony, and popular articles, the study then maps the discursive justifications behind the project as well as those against it. More specifically, it isolates themes of economic development, environmental sustainability, and energy security that converge into a discursive ensemble of inevitability supporting complete electrification for all of South Africa. The study also documents themes at the heart of the campaign against Medupi: maldevelopment and secrecy, local and global environmental degradation, and energy poverty which coalesce into a grand narrative of democracy. Tracing the intricacies of the Medupi controversy provides rich insight into energy policy and planning in South Africa. It also emphasizes how struggles to expand access to energy services can exacerbate degradation of the environment, and shows how climate and environmental discourses can become institutionalized.     

近地表大气电场观测试验场建设

作为地震前兆电磁观测手段之一,震前大气电场异常观测研究在我国已开展多年,为了进一步研究近地表大气电场与震前异常的关系,设立了国家科技支撑计划课题专题"近地表大气电场、地电场综合观测试验研究".文章介绍了试验场所用的KDC-01型大气电场仪,近地表大气电场观测试验场在大祝前兆台阵中的建设情况,以及产出数据的初步分析结果.     

青海共和盆地中低温地热流体发电

青海省是我国地热资源相对丰富的地区, 但其主要地热能开发利用方式长期以来为效率较低的直接利用.以青海东北部地热异常明显的共和盆地为典型研究区, 依据前期地热地质调查和地球物理工作成果, 在盆地北部施工了终孔深度为1 852 m的DR2井, 获取了温度达84.2 ℃的地热流体.在此基础上, 建立了青海省首个试验地热发电站, 设计年平均净发电量为114 kW.与利用高温地热流体发电的西藏羊八井地热电站不同, 青海共和试验地热电站是青藏高原利用中低温地热流体发电的典范, 有望为青海省能源结构优化做出开拓性贡献.总体来看, 共和盆地地热流体温度较高、水量丰富、具有较大的发电潜力, 但在开发利用过程中也应注意结垢问题.