The document provides an overview of solar energy planning and zoning in North Carolina. It discusses the growth of the solar industry in the state and defines key solar technology terms. The summary is:
Solar energy development is growing rapidly in North Carolina, driven by falling costs and state incentives. There are two main types: solar photovoltaics (PV) convert sunlight to electricity, while solar thermal uses sunlight as heat. PV systems are composed of cells made into panels and arrays, which can be linked into large solar farms of multiple megawatts. Proper planning and zoning aims to facilitate responsible solar development while addressing potential land use impacts.
Commissioner Brian Berger, the "Taxpayers' Watchdog" in corrupt Wilmington, NC (New Hanover County), where self-serving, financially self-interested politicians like Woody White, Ted Davis, Jonathan Barfield, Rick Catlin and their friends Gov. Pat McCrory, new Gov. Roy Cooper, the State legislature and sadistic law enforcement carry out unspeakable acts of brutal and illegal corrupt acts, without concern for lives or ethics.
Commissioner Brian Berger, the "Taxpayers' Watchdog" in corrupt Wilmington, NC (New Hanover County), where self-serving, financially self-interested politicians like Woody White, Ted Davis, Jonathan Barfield, Rick Catlin and their friends Gov. Pat McCrory, new Gov. Roy Cooper, the State legislature and sadistic law enforcement carry out unspeakable acts of brutal and illegal corrupt acts, without concern for lives or ethics.
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رئيس تحرير مجلة التوحيد
نائب الرئيس العام لجماعة أنصار السنة المحمدية
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
المحرك الصاروخي المعدل بقي حقيقه وقفزة علمية
بدأ اعتمادا علي المحاكاة فقط وصلا للنجاح وطبعا تحت مظلة وزاره الدفاع الامريكيه لتأمين الدعم اللازم و...
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وأهم حاجه فيه ان الثرست زاد مع زياده الكفاءه ايضا ده غير ان الثرست نفسه بيعتمد علي الارتفاع
ده هيطور رحلات الذهاب >> والعوده!! كمان بشكل كبير
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Ar jews genesis and history
اليهود نشأةً وتاريخاً
الشيخ / صفوت الشوادفي رحمه الله
رئيس تحرير مجلة التوحيد
نائب الرئيس العام لجماعة أنصار السنة المحمدية
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
المحرك الصاروخي المعدل بقي حقيقه وقفزة علمية
بدأ اعتمادا علي المحاكاة فقط وصلا للنجاح وطبعا تحت مظلة وزاره الدفاع الامريكيه لتأمين الدعم اللازم و...
اضافة مؤثرة فعلا في تلك الصناعة
وأهم حاجه فيه ان الثرست زاد مع زياده الكفاءه ايضا ده غير ان الثرست نفسه بيعتمد علي الارتفاع
ده هيطور رحلات الذهاب >> والعوده!! كمان بشكل كبير
https://str.llnl.gov/november-2015/burton
Rural Climate Dialogues: Developing a Citizen-Based Response nado-web
Rural communities are at risk to be disproportionately affected by the direct impacts of climate change and by efforts to mitigate climate change. Learn more about the Rural Climate Dialogues, organized by the Jefferson Center and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, which use the innovative and time-tested Citizens Jury method to bring together a microcosm of the community to generate a shared community response to climate change and extreme weather events. Learn how the process has depoliticized climate change, connected climate policy with rural economic development concerns, empowered three rural communities forward to address their unique concerns, and identified cross-agency opportunities for improving programs and policies to better enable local governments to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Anna Clausen, Director, Rural Strategies, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, MN
Andrew Rockway, Program Director, Jefferson Center, St. Paul, MN
“Planning for Future Funding: How to create a community comprehensive plan with federal funding in mind”
Thinking about federal grants when developing a comprehensive plan for your community can help you get a head start on successfully applying, submitting and receiving federal funding.
Detailed comprehensive plans and federal funding grants need some of the same elements to thrive. Writing about the vision for investing in a community’s empty brownfields, affordable housing and economic development needs, and health issues can serve as a platform in applying for federal grants. These aspirations, when effectively written and documented, can be used as the basis for grant applications. If a community identifies its needs as part of the planning process, it can, as part of a continuous proposal building process, pinpoint which grants will help meet those needs.
Federal grants are available for communities with an integrated vision for connecting economic development, community development, and environmental protection to create greater livability.
Illinois ResourceNet (IRN) and the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMPA) are working together on a series of free webinars to help communities strengthen their capacity to apply successfully for available federal funding opportunities.
In this webinar, “Planning for Funding: How to create a comprehensive plan with federal funding in mind,” Deborah Orr, EPA Region 5 Brownfields Coordinator, will moderate the session and explain why comprehensive community planning should be an integral part of the federal funding process.
Michael McAfee, Community Planning and Development Representative with HUD's Chicago office, will demonstrate how to use a comprehensive plan and the sustainable practices built into it to facilitate the continuous development of federal funding proposals.
Susan Kaplan, technical assistance provider for Illinois ResourceNet at the University of Illinois, will offer examples of how a community plan can be used to help identify relevant federal grant opportunities and develop persuasive grant applications.
Free Webinar held on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Durham Housing Authority Director of Operations-PD Kimberly Sallie
The Durham Housing Authority, is looking for outstanding candidates for their next Director of Operations. If interested, please send resume to Kimberly at Kimberly@gansgans.com.
Multidisciplinary challenges call for multidisciplinary approaches.
Our Centers & Institutes are built to do just that:
Address real-world challenges with academic, industrial, and governmental “team science.”
Enhancing Justice and Sustainability at the Local Level: Affordable Policies for Urban Governments
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Community Engagement Approaches for Active Transportation and Equity
Abstract: This workshop will include lessons learned from local initiatives of Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities and the Active Living Minnesota campaign, with a focus on how to create the partnerships necessary to foster more equitable active transportation solutions.
Presenters:
Presenter: Fay Gibson Active Living By Design
Co-Presenter: Jill Chamberlain Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
Co-Presenter: Naomi Doerner Bike Easy
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DUE 11AM ON SUNDAYClinical Assignment #2 EnvironmentalAlyciaGold776
DUE 11AM ON SUNDAY
Clinical Assignment #2: Environmental Health
This assignment will develop a beginning understanding of environmental health concepts in the community setting. Students will consider how HealthyPeople 2020 environmental health themes impact their community, and apply concepts such as “social justice” and “the greater good” in evaluating public health initiatives.
Learning Objectives
1. Describe the impact of various environmental public health hazards.
2. Investigate strategies that address solutions to environmental public health hazards.
3. Explore policy and legislation related to environmental health issues in the community.
Background
Students should familiarize themselves with HealthyPeople 2020’s Environmental Health objectives, which focus on 6 themes: 1) outdoor air quality; 2) surface and ground water quality; 3) toxic substances and hazardous wastes; 4) homes and communities; 5) infrastructure and surveillance; and 6) global environmental health.
Students can access https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/environmental-health for more information.
Instructions for Individual Activity
Each student will choose one of the HealthyPeople 2020’s Environmental Health themes to investigate and explore how their community (chosen with Clinical Assignment #1: Community Assessment/Windshield Survey) is affected and impacted by this theme, as well as what is being done to address this environmental health theme to safeguard or improve societal and environmental health. Students should search relevant public/governmental agency websites and media/newspaper publications to help understand the situation from historical, present, and future oriented perspectives. The EPA’s My Environment website may also be helpful (https://www3.epa.gov/enviro/myenviro/). Students will then create a 2-page paper (approximately 500 words) that addresses the following:
· Briefly describe the selected environmental health theme.
· Discuss how the community is affected/impacted by this environmental health theme.
· Explore the selected environmental health situation from historical, present, and future-oriented perspectives.
· Discuss any strategies that are planned or have been implemented to address this environmental health theme to safeguard or improve societal and environmental health. Consider the barriers and facilitators for success of these strategies. Propose strategies if none are found.
· Within the paper, students should consider and address population health concepts such as “social justice” and “the greater good.”
· Student should utilize and appropriately cite relevant public/governmental agency websites and media/newspaper publications to substantiate their writing.
· Students will submit their APA formatted paper to Brightspace by the assigned due date.
Group activity
At the clinical site (or as directed by your clinical instructor), students will present and discuss their findings of the HealthyPeople 2020: ...
Hot Jobs Assistant Director, Local Government & Community RelationsJustin Fiske
Job Announcement / UC Berkeley: The Assistant Director represents UC Berkeley before local government and community constituencies including city agencies and departments, city councils, mayoral offices, neighborhood and business associations, community organizations and the general public.
With a particular focus in Berkeley, the Assistant Director of Local Government & Community Relations is responsible for managing the Chancellor's Partnership Fund, the South Side Neighborhood Advisory Council (SNAC), and a select number of programmatic efforts that seek to improve Town & Gown relations. The Assistant Director will serve as the University liaison to ensure successful resolution of good neighbor concerns involving on campus and off-campus student housing.
The Assistant Director, will provide support in the successful launch and implementation of the University's Richmond Bay Campus (RBC) initiative, including facilitation of ad hoc work committees of the RBC Working Group.
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The information in this report highlights the important work of several nonprofit organizations within Stockton communities to combat the negative effects of environmental degradation and environmental injustice. They work to create a more just and equitable community where everyone has a voice at the table.
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Harnessing WebAssembly for Real-time Stateless Streaming PipelinesChristina Lin
Traditionally, dealing with real-time data pipelines has involved significant overhead, even for straightforward tasks like data transformation or masking. However, in this talk, we’ll venture into the dynamic realm of WebAssembly (WASM) and discover how it can revolutionize the creation of stateless streaming pipelines within a Kafka (Redpanda) broker. These pipelines are adept at managing low-latency, high-data-volume scenarios.
Student information management system project report ii.pdfKamal Acharya
Our project explains about the student management. This project mainly explains the various actions related to student details. This project shows some ease in adding, editing and deleting the student details. It also provides a less time consuming process for viewing, adding, editing and deleting the marks of the students.
Saudi Arabia stands as a titan in the global energy landscape, renowned for its abundant oil and gas resources. It's the largest exporter of petroleum and holds some of the world's most significant reserves. Let's delve into the top 10 oil and gas projects shaping Saudi Arabia's energy future in 2024.
Industrial Training at Shahjalal Fertilizer Company Limited (SFCL)MdTanvirMahtab2
This presentation is about the working procedure of Shahjalal Fertilizer Company Limited (SFCL). A Govt. owned Company of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation under Ministry of Industries.
Welcome to WIPAC Monthly the magazine brought to you by the LinkedIn Group Water Industry Process Automation & Control.
In this month's edition, along with this month's industry news to celebrate the 13 years since the group was created we have articles including
A case study of the used of Advanced Process Control at the Wastewater Treatment works at Lleida in Spain
A look back on an article on smart wastewater networks in order to see how the industry has measured up in the interim around the adoption of Digital Transformation in the Water Industry.
Final project report on grocery store management system..pdfKamal Acharya
In today’s fast-changing business environment, it’s extremely important to be able to respond to client needs in the most effective and timely manner. If your customers wish to see your business online and have instant access to your products or services.
Online Grocery Store is an e-commerce website, which retails various grocery products. This project allows viewing various products available enables registered users to purchase desired products instantly using Paytm, UPI payment processor (Instant Pay) and also can place order by using Cash on Delivery (Pay Later) option. This project provides an easy access to Administrators and Managers to view orders placed using Pay Later and Instant Pay options.
In order to develop an e-commerce website, a number of Technologies must be studied and understood. These include multi-tiered architecture, server and client-side scripting techniques, implementation technologies, programming language (such as PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and MySQL relational databases. This is a project with the objective to develop a basic website where a consumer is provided with a shopping cart website and also to know about the technologies used to develop such a website.
This document will discuss each of the underlying technologies to create and implement an e- commerce website.
CW RADAR, FMCW RADAR, FMCW ALTIMETER, AND THEIR PARAMETERSveerababupersonal22
It consists of cw radar and fmcw radar ,range measurement,if amplifier and fmcw altimeterThe CW radar operates using continuous wave transmission, while the FMCW radar employs frequency-modulated continuous wave technology. Range measurement is a crucial aspect of radar systems, providing information about the distance to a target. The IF amplifier plays a key role in signal processing, amplifying intermediate frequency signals for further analysis. The FMCW altimeter utilizes frequency-modulated continuous wave technology to accurately measure altitude above a reference point.
Immunizing Image Classifiers Against Localized Adversary Attacksgerogepatton
This paper addresses the vulnerability of deep learning models, particularly convolutional neural networks
(CNN)s, to adversarial attacks and presents a proactive training technique designed to counter them. We
introduce a novel volumization algorithm, which transforms 2D images into 3D volumetric representations.
When combined with 3D convolution and deep curriculum learning optimization (CLO), itsignificantly improves
the immunity of models against localized universal attacks by up to 40%. We evaluate our proposed approach
using contemporary CNN architectures and the modified Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR-10
and CIFAR-100) and ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC12) datasets, showcasing
accuracy improvements over previous techniques. The results indicate that the combination of the volumetric
input and curriculum learning holds significant promise for mitigating adversarial attacks without necessitating
adversary training.
6th International Conference on Machine Learning & Applications (CMLA 2024)ClaraZara1
6th International Conference on Machine Learning & Applications (CMLA 2024) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of on Machine Learning & Applications.
Hierarchical Digital Twin of a Naval Power SystemKerry Sado
A hierarchical digital twin of a Naval DC power system has been developed and experimentally verified. Similar to other state-of-the-art digital twins, this technology creates a digital replica of the physical system executed in real-time or faster, which can modify hardware controls. However, its advantage stems from distributing computational efforts by utilizing a hierarchical structure composed of lower-level digital twin blocks and a higher-level system digital twin. Each digital twin block is associated with a physical subsystem of the hardware and communicates with a singular system digital twin, which creates a system-level response. By extracting information from each level of the hierarchy, power system controls of the hardware were reconfigured autonomously. This hierarchical digital twin development offers several advantages over other digital twins, particularly in the field of naval power systems. The hierarchical structure allows for greater computational efficiency and scalability while the ability to autonomously reconfigure hardware controls offers increased flexibility and responsiveness. The hierarchical decomposition and models utilized were well aligned with the physical twin, as indicated by the maximum deviations between the developed digital twin hierarchy and the hardware.
3. Contents
Acknowledgments iv
Introduction 1
Part I: Understanding Solar 3
North Carolina 3
Solar Basics 4
PV and Thermal 4
Cell, Panel, Array, Farm 4
Mounting and Tracking 6
Scale of Solar 7
Regulatory Context 9
Part II: Planning for Solar 10
The Local Plan 10
Public Opportunities 11
Streamlined Regulation 12
Incentives for Solar 12
Part III: Zoning for Solar 13
Zoning Considerations 13
Potential Land Use Impacts 14
Aesthetics 14
Noise 14
Stormwater 15
Glare 16
Safety 16
Operations 17
Property Value 18
Defining and Distinguishing Solar 18
Important Distinctions 19
Less Important Distinctions 19
Districts and Approval Procedure 20
Standards for Solar as a Principal Use 21
Height and Setbacks 22
Screening and Fencing 23
Design and Operations 24
Size 25
Decommissioning 25
Standards for Solar as an Accessory Use 26
Visibility 26
Roof-Mounted Accessory Solar 27
Ground-Mounted Accessory Solar 28
Is it Accessory? 30
Competing Interests 30
Screening Requirements 31
Tree Preservation 31
Historic Preservation 31
Part IV: Solar Access and Solar Siting 32
Solar Access 32
Solar Siting 33
Conclusion 35
Additional Resources 36
Zoning and Planning for Solar 36
Historic Preservation and Solar 36
Other Related Solar Resources 36
Local Ordinances and Plans Cited 37
4. Acknowledgments
This publication was enriched by informative site visits, generous comments, and insightful critiques. Among others, I thank the following individuals: Sam Beck, Clay County, North Carolina; Kyle Brown, Camp Lejeune; Tommy Cleveland, North Carolina Solar Center; Brandi Deese, City of Laurinburg, North Carolina; Miriam Makhyoun and Michael Fucci, North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association; Michael McDonough; Greg Ness, FLS Energy; Gary Ouellete, City of Jacksonville, North Carolina; Autumn Radcliff, Henderson County, North Carolina; Lance Williams, Strata Solar. Additionally I thank my colleagues at the School of Government, especially David Owens and Richard Ducker, for their guidance and comments.