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    How Electricity Generation Really Works

    How Electricity Generation Really Works

    This video continues the series on the power grid by diving deeper into the engineering of large-scale electricity generation. The importance of electricity in our modern world can hardly be overstated. What was a luxury a hundred years ago is now a critical component to the safety, prosperity, and well-being of nearly everyone. Generation is the first step electricity takes on its journey through the power grid, the gigantic machine that delivers energy to millions of people day in and day out. So how does it work?

    Subjects:
    Building Services Engineering and Electrical Engineering
    Keywords:
    Electric power production
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    How Do Substations Work?

    How Do Substations Work?

    Untangling the various equipment you might see in an electrical substation. In many ways, the grid is a one-size-fits-all system - a gigantic machine to which we all connect spinning in perfect synchrony across, in some cases, an entire continent. On the other hand, our electricity needs, including when we need it, how much we need, and how reliably it should be delivered vary widely. Substations play a critical role in controlling and protecting the power grid.

    Subjects:
    Building Services Engineering and Electrical Engineering
    Keywords:
    Electric power distribution Electric substations
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    How do Electric Transmission Lines Work?

    How do Electric Transmission Lines Work?

    Discussing some of the fascinating engineering that goes into overhead electric power transmission lines. In the past, power generating plants were only able to serve their local areas. As power plants grew larger and further away from populated areas, the need for ways to efficiently move electricity over long distances has become more and more important. Stringing power lines across the landscape to connect cities to power plants may seem as simple as connecting an extension cord to an outlet, but the engineering behind these electric superhighways is more complicated and fascinating than you might think.

    Subjects:
    Building Services Engineering and Electrical Engineering
    Keywords:
    Electric power transmission Electric lines
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    World's Largest Batteries - (Pumped Storage)

    World's Largest Batteries - (Pumped Storage)

    The vast majority of our grid-scale storage of electricity uses this clever method. Electricity faces a fundamental problem that comes with pretty much any product that’s provided on-demand: our ability to generate large amounts of it doesn’t match up that closely with when we need it. The storage of electricity for later use, especially on a large scale, is quite challenging. That’s not to say that we don’t store energy at grid scale though, and there’s one type of storage that makes up the vast majority of our current capacity.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering
    Keywords:
    Energy storage Water-power Pumped storage power plants
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    The Global History of Capitalism

    The Global History of Capitalism

    The Global History of Capitalism project hosted the conference ‘Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism’ on September 28-29 2019. The conference brought together cultural, economic, and political historians of global capitalism with the aim of starting a new conversation about the relationship between capitalism and global history.

    Subjects:
    Anthropology and Political Science
    Keywords:
    Economics Capitalism
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    The End of Journalism

    The End of Journalism

    The visiting professor of Creative Media, Stig Abell delivers a series of lectures about the current trends in reporting media.

    Subjects:
    Journalism and Communication
    Keywords:
    Reporters reporting Journalism
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    Digital Visual Cultural

    Digital Visual Cultural

    This podcast is designed to give you an insight into the University of Oxford's digital - visual - cultural series of events. The series is interested in exploring the impact of digital visualising technologies on contemporary life and hope to give you a taste of why you should be too! Bite-sized episodes will introduce you to a range of themes and discussions, as well as multiple voices from academia and industry.

    Subjects:
    Society and Culture and Technology
    Keywords:
    Digital media -- Social aspects
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    Others
     
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    Literature and Form

    Literature and Form

    Lecture series looking at key concepts in studying Literature; including lectures on the concept of unreliable narrators to theory of comparative literature. This series was filmed in the English Faculty in Trinity Term 2012

    Subjects:
    Comparative Literature and English Literature
    Keywords:
    Literature Comparative literature
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    Ethics in AI

    Ethics in AI

    Over the last decade, concerns about the power and danger of Artificial Intelligence have moved from the fantasy of “Terminator” to reality, and anxieties about killer robots have been joined by many others that are more immediate. An introduction by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt; The place of Ethics in AI, AI Ethics and legal regulation, Ethics of AI in healthcare

    Subjects:
    Health Technology and Informatics and Medical and Professional Ethics
    Keywords:
    Artificial intelligence -- Moral ethical aspects Ethics
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    Practical Ethics Bites

    Practical Ethics Bites

    Practical Ethics Bites is a series of audio podcasts on practical ethics targeted specifically at pupils studying philosophy in UK schools.

    Subjects:
    Philosophy
    Keywords:
    Ethics
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    Others