Interesting TV Programs and online resources

To Be Updated


IEEE TV online - needs Broadband
Coal Gasification – Polk Power Station, Tampa Electric
  http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/ieeetv/index.jsp?pageID=ieee.tv.viewer&path=membport/ieee_tv&file=TT_PolkPS.xml&vid=98467&play=true&WT.mc_id=BE1_20080623PolkPS8_10
   
  Mark Hornick, General Manager of Tampa Electric Polk Power Station, provides an overview of one of the first coal gasification plants that creates a clean burning gas from coal in a "combined cycle" method that uses exhaust to create additional electricity.
  2008 June - 6:06 min(s) 
 
 
 The Story of Hoover Dam
  http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/ieeetv/index.jsp?pageID=ieee.tv.viewer&path=membport/ieee_tv&file=TT_HooverD.xml&vid=98673&play=true&WT.mc_id=BE1_20080623HooverD8_10
   
  Dan McRoberts, Guide Service Coordinator of the Bureau of Reclamation, gives a tour of Hoover Dam, including interior views of the turbines as well as the exterior structure. He discusses the use of the dam to manage water as well as to generate electricity.
  2008 June - 8:08 min(s)
 
Lady Student Inventor
A young lady studying for GCSE invents an aid for disabled and elderly to climb stairs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7375486.stm