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White Papers on Energy, the Environment, Water, Risk Management and Counter-Terrorism

 
M.E.T.T.S. has produced a selection of positional papers. These can be viewed at this site, and quoted and used for academic and other research purposes, providing that attribution is clearly given to the author(s).

NEW! A Nuclear Solution to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
A least damage solution to one of this decade's greatest environment disasters.

NEW! Hybrid VAM and Coal Waste Fired Power Generation
A coal-fired power generation system that reduces the overall greenhouse footprint of coal mining and conserves virgin coal.

NEW! Clean Coal Technology and Enhanced Oil Recovery - Matches and Mismatches
Clean coal technology and enhanced oil recovery from a resource perspective.

UCG-CSM Interrelationships and Synergies
Underground coal gasification and coal seam methane: what are the synergies?

Coal: Does it have a Future in the Face of the Nuclear Challenge?
Will coal meet the nuclear challenge?

The Ethics of Kyoto
An examination of the science and politics behind the Kyoto Protocol.

Business Continuity Management and the Terrorist Threat
Strategies for the circumvention of a terrorist incident by business and government.

Bushfire, Storms and Soil Erosion. A. P. Hammond and M. C. Clarke.
Risk management in controlled burning practices.

The Missing Link in Clean Coal Technology: the Proper Use of Waste Coal as an Environmental Measure.
The use of colliery wastes in power generation.

The Realities of Solutions to the Energy Question. Are Renewable and Sustainable Options Practical?

Cyanide Usage in the Gold Mining Industry Under Wet Tropical Conditions Bryne Ansin Morna, SMAusIMM and M. C. Clarke.

It's No Bed of Roses: The Development of an EMS for Weed Management at Binna Burra Mountain Lodge, Lamington National Park. Kerry Yates, FCPA and M. C. Clarke.

Energy For and From the Northern Territory (Australia)
A brief review of some energy and infrastructure options for the Northern Territory.

The Use of Risk Management Tools in Countering the Terrorist Threat
Some strategies for countering terrorism by analysing the terrorist threat are presented, whilst Philippine terrorism is used as an example of a multi-directional threat that has proved awkward to counter.

Engineering and Terrorism: their Interrelationships
A review of the threat from increasing technically literate terrorists.

A Rejoinder to Dr. Paul Connett, Greenpeace
A letter published in Inside Waste, Issue 1, May 2004.

A New Concept in an Environmental Engineering Course Structure
A course proposal that looks at creating an undergraduate environmental engineering course, with a strong energy focus.

Desalination and Power Generation
A paper presented at the Water Management in Power Generation Conference, Brisbane, Australia, June 2006.


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NEW! A Nuclear Solution to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
NEW! Hybrid VAM and Coal Waste Fired Power Generation
NEW! Clean Coal Technology & Enhanced Oil Recovery
UCG-CSM Interrelationships and Synergies
Business Continuity Management and the Terrorist Threat
The Missing Link in Clean Coal Technology
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Energy for and from the Northern Territory (Australia)
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