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Building Your Own Electronics Lab: A Guide to Setting Up Your Own Gadget Workshop

Apress, 2012

We’re surrounded by electronics these days. Did you ever wonder how it all worked? Do you know just enough about electricity to be dangerous? Would you like to learn more? Then this book is for you.

There are many excellent textbooks on how electricity works. This is not one of them. This book helps you get...

The Physics of Superheroes

Gotham, 2005

If superheroes stepped off the comic book page or silver screen and into reality, could they actually work their wonders in a world constrained by the laws of physics? How strong would Superman have to be to “leap tall buildings in a single bound”? Could Storm of the X-Men possibly control the weather? And how many cheeseburgers would...

Electric Power Research Trends

Nova Press, 2007

The world is becoming increasingly electrified. For the foreseeable future, coal will continue to be the dominant fuel used for electric power production. The low cost and abundance of coal is one of the primary reasons for this. Electric power transmission, a process in the delivery of electricity to consumers, is the bulk...

Solar Power for Your Home (Green Guru Guides)

McGraw-Hill, 2010

Easy, inexpensive, do-it-yourself solar energy projects

Featuring step-by-step instructions and useful photos and illustrations, this hands-on guide is filled with solar energy solutions you can put to use right away. Solar Power for Your Home shows you how to set up a variety of simple, money-saving solar projects quickly...

Electricity And Magnetism (Physics in Our World)

Facts on File, 2007

THE NUCLEAR BOMBS that ended World War II in 1945 were a convincing and frightening demonstration of the power of physics. A product of some of the best scientific minds in the world, the nuclear explosions devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forcing Japan into an unconditional surrender. But even though the atomic bomb...

Electricity Production from Renewables Energies

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Energy and environmental issues have caused a marked increase in electricity production from renewable energy sources since the beginning of the 21st Century. The concept of sustainable development and concern for future generations challenge us every day to produce new technologies for energy production, and new patterns of use for these...

Wind Power For Dummies

For Dummies, 2009

The consumer guide to small-scale wind electricity production!

Maybe you're not T. Boone Pickens, but you can build your own home-sized wind-power empire right in your back yard. Wind Power for Your Home For Dummies supplies all the guidance you need to install and maintain a sustainable, cost-effective wind generator...

Crossing the Energy Divide: Moving from Fossil Fuel Dependence to a Clean-Energy Future

Wharton School Publishing, 2009

Praise for Crossing the Energy Divide

“This book makes coherent and rigorous arguments that increasing energy efficiency is the primary driver of economic growth today and is key to managing climate change.”

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Green Information Technology: A Sustainable Approach

Morgan Kaufmann, 2015

We are living in the era of "Big Data" and the computing power required to deal with "Big Data" both in terms of its energy consumption and technical complexity is one of the key areas of research and development. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that centralized computing infrastructures (data centres)...

Environmental Monitoring with Arduino: Building Simple Devices to Collect Data About the World Around Us

Make Books, 2012

After the devastating tsunami in 2011, DYIers in Japan built their own devices to detect radiation levels, then posted their finding on the Internet. Right now, thousands of people worldwide are tracking environmental conditions with monitoring devices they’ve built themselves. You can do it too!

This inspiring...

RF Microelectronics

Pearson Education, 2011

The Acclaimed RF Microelectronics Best-Seller, Expanded and Updated for the Newest Architectures, Circuits, and Devices Wireless communication has become almost as ubiquitous as electricity, but RF design continues to challenge engineers and researchers. In the 15 years since the first edition of this classic text, the demand for higher...

Uncertainty in the Electric Power Industry: Methods and Models for Decision Support

Springer, 2004

Starting in Chile, the UK and Norway, liberalization and privatization
have been a major theme in the electricity industry during the last decade.

Through the introduction of competition and economic considerations,
governments around the world have attempted to obtain more reliable and
cheaper services for the electricity...

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