ENSC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Light-Water Reactor, Appropriate Technology, Aid Agency
4 Jan 2019
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Important applications of engineering -> development: seems obvious providing clean h20 to world > new/better phones. Bataan reactor was too dangerous to operate: although an ancient was avoided, bataan reactor did not follow a wise development. Appropriate technology: appropriate technology for developing word: clear, not mystifying, cheap and reliable. System of schools in kenya ~ traditional uk schools. Its usefulness though: nothing; the school prepared students for university, in a country with one uni and its graduates all unemployed. It is better for our village to have it than giving it to another. If it wouldn"t sell in first world, sell it in the third world. If it can be published, it"s a success (esp. for inventors) Self-sustaining, no external input: kenya jiko or kcj, method of cooking = open fire. Inefficient/ increase products of incomplete combustion leading to illness: decrease in use of charcoal.
