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Global Energy Policy and Security (Lecture Notes in Energy)

Springer, 2013

Despite efforts to increase renewables, the global energy mix is still likely to be dominated by fossil-fuels in the foreseeable future, particularly gas for electricity and oil for land, air and sea transport. The reliance on depleting conventional oil and natural gas resources and the geographic distribution of these reserves can have...

Small-Scale Renewable Energy Systems: Independent Electricity for Community, Business and Home

CRC Press, 2019

A revolution is ongoing in the field of small-scale energy solutions, which can enable lower impact on the environment, more robust supply and self-determination. Solar power and other forms of renewable energy sources, which you can implement to generate your own electricity, are growing quickly. Electromobility is transforming the...

Power Plays: Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil

Apress, 2012

Many people wonder: Are we really running out of oil, or is it all a ruse to drive prices up? Is nuclear power safe and economical? Is solar energy really the key to providing plenty of carbon-free energy? Do we have enough natural gas or coal to make any loss of oil production irrelevant?

In Power Plays: Energy Options in the...

Ecology of Building Materials

Architectural Press, 2001

As both a practising architect and a researcher, Berge introduces us authoritatively to issues such as using raw materials from renewable sources, and the possibilities of designing and manufacturing reusable building materials. The alternatives to modern building materials are outlined and discussed from an ecological perspective.

In...

Renewable Electricity and the Grid: The Challenge of Variability

Earthscan, 2007

Can renewable energy provide reliable power? Will it need extensive backup?

The energy available from wind, waves, tides and the sun varies in ways that may not match variations in energy demand. Assimilating these fluctuations can affect the operation and economics of electricity networks. Is this a significant problem, or can these...

Sustainable Energy Solutions in Agriculture (Sustainable Energy Developments)

CRC Press, 2014

Sustainability in agriculture and associated primary industries, which are both energy-intensive, is crucial for the development of any country. Increasing scarcity and resulting high fossil fuel prices combined with the need to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, make the improvement of energy efficient farming and increased use...

Sustainability at the Cutting Edge, Second Edition: Emerging Technologies for low energy buildings

Architectural Press, 2007

Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy....

Energy Supply and Renewable Resources

Facts on File, 2007

One has only to read a newspaper or magazine to realize the importance of energy at this early juncture of the 21st century. It will surely become more critical as world demand for oil continues to increase and its supply peaks and begins to fall.

Industrialized nations have become addicted to an ever-increasing...

Hitting the Wall: A Vision of a Secure Energy Future (Synthesis Lectures on Energy and the Environment: Technology, Science, and Society)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008

Hitting the Wall examines the combination of two intractable energy problems of our age: the peaking of global oil production and the overloading of the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. Both emerge from the overconsumption of fossil fuels and solving one problem helps solve the other. The misinformation campaign about climate change is discussed...

The Lucent Library of Science and Technology - Energy Alternatives

Lucent Books, 2004

Energy drives all life and is a key component to how humanity works, lives, and sustains itself. Due to the depletion of existing energy sources and the damage being done to the earth's ecosystems, renewable, non-polluting energy sources such as solar, wind, and geothermal power, are being developed and implemented.

The twentieth-century...

Steam Plant Operation 9th Edition

McGraw-Hill, 2011

The definitive guide for steam power plant systems and operation?fully updated

For more than 75 years, this book has been a trusted source of information on steam power plants, including the design, operation, and maintenance of major systems. Steam Plant Operation, Ninth Edition, emphasizes the importance...

Broadband Applications and the Digital Home (Btexact Communications Technology Series, 5)

Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2002

This book explores the technological challenges and applications of providing fast, 'always on' internet connections to the home. Current delivery mechanisms of broadband into and around the home are explored in depth, as well as the current and emerging applications of the technology. The authors discuss what drives people to adopt...

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