• Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future

    The provision of sustainable energy supplies for an expanding and increasingly productive world is one of the major issues facing civilisation today. Renewable Energy examines both the practical and economic potential of the renewable energy sources to meet this challenge. The underlying physical and technological principles behind deriving power from direct solar (solar thermal and photovoltaics), indirect solar (biomass, hydro, wind and wave) and non-solar (tidal and geothermal) energy sources are explained, within the context of their environmental impacts, their economics and their future ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0198759754
    • ASIN: 0198759754
    • ISBN: 9780198759751
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future

    The provision of sustainable energy supplies for an expanding and increasingly productive world is one of the major issues facing civilization today. Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future, Third Edition, examines both the practical and economic potential of the renewable energy sources to meet this challenge. The underlying physical and technological principles behind deriving power from direct solar (solar thermal and photovoltaics), indirect solar (biomass, hydro, wind, and wave) and non-solar (tidal and geothermal) energy sources are explained, within the context of their environ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0199545332
    • ASIN: 0199545332
    • ISBN: 0199545332
    • Brand: Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

    Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis.

    • ASIN: 1439110123
    • ASIN: 1439110123
    • ISBN: 1439110123
    • Brand: Free Press
    • Manufacturer: Free Press

  • Energy Systems and Sustainability: Power for a Sustainable Future

    Interdisciplinary in its approach and global in its perspective, Energy Systems and Sustainability: Power for a Sustainable Future, Second Edition, provides a contemporary exploration of the economic, social, environmental, and policy issues raised by current systems of energy use. Emphasizing the important issue of sustainability, it analyzes the historical evolution of the world's energy systems, the principles underlying their use, and their present status and future prospects.Beginning with a survey of basic energy concepts, the book describes the magnitude and patterns of human energy nee... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0199593744
    • ASIN: 0199593744
    • ISBN: 0199593744
    • Brand: Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • Living Energies: An Exposition of Concepts Related to the Theories of Viktor Schauberger

    Why are so many species of plant and animal disappearing? How is it that Earth is losing more fresh water than it is producing? What are the effects of chlorination and fluoridation of water? The answers to these and many more pressing environmental questions are to be found in this remarkable book - the first in-depth examination of the life and work of the brilliant forester, scientist and pioneering inventor, Viktor Schauberger. Schauberger's insights into Nature pivoted on the essential characteristics of water as a living and pulsating substance that energizes all of life, both organic an... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0717133079
    • ASIN: 0717133079
    • ISBN: 0717133079
    • Manufacturer: The O'Brien Press

  • Offshore Renewable Energy: Accelerating the Deployment of Offshore Wind, Tidal, and Wave Technologies

    Wave, tidal and offshore wind technologies have long held the promise of seemingly limitless energy supplies. In practice, while offshore wind is growing relatively rapidly, all three sectors have lagged behind expectations. This book, from the International Energy Authority Renewable Energy Technology Deployment implementing agreement (IEA-RETD), examines the reasons for this and suggests how barriers to deployment might be overcome. Beginning with an assessment of the marine energy resource, it provides a detailed introduction to the main technologies currently being employed to harness win... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1849714703
    • ASIN: 1849714703
    • ISBN: 9781849714709
    • Brand: Earthscan Ltd
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

  • Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future, Second Edition

    Stimulated by recent technological developments and increasing concern over the sustainability and environmental impact of conventional fuel usage, the prospect of producing clean, sustainable power in substantial quantities from renewable energy sources arouses interest world-wide. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the principal types of renewable energy-including solar, thermal photovoltaics, bioenergy, hydro, tidal, wind, wave, and geothermal. In addition, the text explains the underlying physical and technological principles of renewable energy and examines the environmental i... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0199261784
    • ASIN: 0199261784
    • ISBN: 0199261784
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy

    In 1961, President John F. Kennedy ignited America’s Apollo Project and sparked a revolution in space exploration. Today the New Apollo Energy Project is poised to revolutionize the production of energy and thereby save our planet. The nation that built the world’s most powerful rockets, its most advanced computers, and its most sophisticated life support systems is ready to create the world’s most powerful solar energy systems, its most advanced wind energy turbines, and its most sophisticated hybrid cars. This will result in nothing less than a second American Revolution. Who are the d... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1597261750
    • ASIN: 1597261750
    • ISBN: 1597261750
    • Brand: Brand: Island Press
    • Manufacturer: Island Press

  • Following Oil: Four Decades of Cycle-Testing Experiences and What They Foretell about U.S. Energy Independence

    In a forty-year career as an oil and gas investment analyst and as an investment banker and strategic adviser on petroleum-sector mergers, acquisitions, and financings, Thomas A. Petrie has witnessed dramatic changes in the business. In Following Oil, he shares useful lessons he has learned about domestic and global trends in population and economic growth, a maturing resource base, variable national energy policies, and dynamic changes in geopolitical forces—and how these variables affect energy markets. More important, he applies those lessons to charting a course of energy development for... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0806144203
    • ASIN: 0806144203
    • ISBN: 0806144203
    • Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press

  • Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes

    With energy sustainability and security at the forefront of public discourse worldwide, there is a pressing need to foster an understanding of clean, safe alternative energy sources such as solar and wind power. Aldo da Rosa’s highly respected and comprehensive resource fulfills this need; it has provided thousands of engineers, scientists, students and professionals alike with a thorough grounding in the scientific principles underlying the complex world of renewable energy technologies. This new third edition of the classic text highlights advances in this vital area, which are proceeding ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0123972191
    • ASIN: 0123972191
    • ISBN: 0123972191
    • Manufacturer: Academic Press

  • Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century

    Global climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces today. This book assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions on switching to more sustainable energy provision. Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has served on many US and international review committees on climate change and energy issues. He provides a concise overview of our knowledge and uncertainties within climate change science, discusses current energy demand and s... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0521747813
    • ASIN: 0521747813
    • ISBN: 0521747813
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

  • Renewable Energy From the Ocean: A Guide to OTEC (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratories Series in Science and Engineering)

    Scientists and engineers around the world are striving to develop new sources of energy. One source, ocean thermal energy conversion, has virtually unlimited potential. It is based on techniques that exploit heat produced by solar energy that may, in turn, be used to produce fuel and electricity. This book reviews the status and background of this promising technology. William H. Avery is the leading expert in this field, and his co-author Chih Wu is an authority on heat engine performance. Together they describe the workings of an OTEC power plant and how such a system might be implemented as... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0195071999
    • ASIN: 0195071999
    • ISBN: 0195071999
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • Renewable Energy Resources

    Renewable Energy Resources is a numerate and quantitative text covering the full range of renewable energy technologies and their implementation worldwide. Energy supplies from renewables (such as from biofuels, solar heat, photovoltaics, wind, hydro, wave, tidal, geothermal, and ocean-thermal) are essential components of every nation’s energy strategy, not least because of concerns for the local and global environment, for energy security and for sustainability. Thus in the years between the first and this third edition, most renewable energy technologies have grown from fledgling impact to... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 041558437X
    • ASIN: 041558437X
    • ISBN: 041558437X
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

  • Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry (The MIT Press)

    An innovative analysis that shows how the shift to solar energy―in particular, the use of photovoltaic cells―is both economically advantageous and inevitable, and will rival the information and communication technologies revolution in its transformative effects.In Solar Revolution, fund manager and former corporate buyout specialist Travis Bradford argues―on the basis of standard business and economic forecasting models―that over the next two decades solar energy will increasingly become the best and cheapest choice for most electricity and energy applications. Solar Revolution outline... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 026202604X
    • ASIN: 026202604X
    • ISBN: 026202604X
    • Manufacturer: The MIT Press

  • Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics

    The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’ baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate. Big Dams of the New Deal Era tells how major water-storage structures were erected in four western river basins. David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson reveal how engineering science, regional and national politics, perceived public needs, a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0806137959
    • ASIN: 0806137959
    • ISBN: 0806137959
    • Brand: Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press

  • Renewable Energy Engineering

    This book provides a quantitative yet accessible overview of renewable energy engineering practice including wind, hydro, solar, ocean and

    • UPC: 55201975

  • Bioenergy and renewable power methane in integrated 100% renewable energy systems - eBook

    The two major challenges in global energy systems are to reduce energy-related greenhouse gas emissions and to maintain energy supply security. This thesis presents one solution to both problems. It proposes strategies for the transformation

    • UPC: 615665821

  • Renewable Energy Engineering

    This book provides a quantitative yet accessible overview of renewable energy engineering practice including wind, hydro, solar, ocean and

    • UPC: 55202136

  • The Renaissance of Renewable Energy

    "This book provides detailed yet easily understandable information about sustainable energy alternatives in the context of growing public concern about climate change, the impending fuel crisis and environmental degradation. It deals with the history of

    • UPC: 39124134

  • Kicking the Carbon Habit : Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy

    With glaciers melting, oceans growing more acidic, species dying out, and catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina ever more probable, strong steps must be taken now to slow global warming. Further warming threatens entire regional economies

    • UPC: 366742643

  • Governing the Wind Energy Commons : Renewable Energy and Community Development

    9781946684851

    • UPC: 373573181

  • Biomass to Renewable Energy Processes, Second Edition

    9781498778794

    • UPC: 639254405

  • Governing the Wind Energy Commons : Renewable Energy and Community Development

    9781946684844

    • UPC: 165644273

  • What Will Work : Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power

    What Will Work

    • UPC: 16528348

  • The Renaissance of Renewable Energy

    "This book provides detailed yet easily understandable information about sustainable energy alternatives in the context of growing public concern about climate change, the impending fuel crisis and environmental degradation. It deals with the history of

    • UPC: 39124280

  • Successful Student Presents: Top 5 Sustainable and Renewable Colleges

    University of Aberdeen - MSc Renewable Energy Engineering

    Renewable Energy | Research and Which Majors to Pick