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Enormous conviction is needed to resist this wasteful dissipation of energy into make-work techno-management.
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These initiatives are under the supervision of national institutions or authorities which shall work for the strengthening of the enforcement system of mandatory building codes, protecting critical facilities such as schools, hospitals and historic buildings, and promoting the development of more affordable retrofitting techniques and the use of available seismic isolation or energy dissipation techniques.
UNESCO: Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation
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While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.
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