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Energy and Climate: How to achieve a successful energy transition
Energy and Climate: How to achieve a successful energy transition

Despite global concerns over dwindling resources, climate change and carbon dioxide emissions, fossil fuels still account for more than 80% of the world’s energy demands. As resources diminish and demand increases from rapidly developing nations such as China and India, the threat to both our environment and the security of our energy...

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

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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Living Green: The Missing Manual
Living Green: The Missing Manual

Taking care of the earth is more important than ever, but the problems we're facing can seem overwhelming. Living Green: The Missing Manual helps make earth-friendly decisions more manageable by narrowing them down to a few simple choices. This all-in-one resource is packed with practical advice on ways you can help the...

Carrier Scale IP Networks: Designing and Operating Internet Networks (Bt Communications Technology Series, 1)
Carrier Scale IP Networks: Designing and Operating Internet Networks (Bt Communications Technology Series, 1)
Communications networks are now dominated by Internet protocol (IP) technologies. This book comprehensively reviews the design, provision and operations of carrier-scale Internet networks. Every aspect of networking, from access to the core network to the surrounding operational support systems has been radically affected by the rapid development...
Innovation in Life Cycle Engineering and Sustainable Development
Innovation in Life Cycle Engineering and Sustainable Development
The focus of this book is the consideration of environmental issues in engineering process and product design. It presents a selection of 30 papers ensuing from the 12th CIRP International seminar on Life Cycle Engineering, held at the university of Grenoble, France, in April 2005.

Sustainable development is more and more at the core of...

Solar Technologies for Buildings
Solar Technologies for Buildings
Solar technologies are emerging as the sustainable technology of choice for those commissioning new buildings. Integrated photovoltaics offer huge potential for delivering renewable energy without generating harmful pollutants.

Discussing current market conditions and the economics of this technology, the author balances the physics and...

Sustainability at the Cutting Edge, Second Edition: Emerging Technologies for low energy buildings
Sustainability at the Cutting Edge, Second Edition: Emerging Technologies for low energy buildings
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....
Hitting the Wall: A Vision of a Secure Energy Future (Synthesis Lectures on Energy and the Environment: Technology, Science, and Society)
Hitting the Wall: A Vision of a Secure Energy Future (Synthesis Lectures on Energy and the Environment: Technology, Science, and Society)
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...
Alternative Energy Edition 1. (3 Volume set)
Alternative Energy Edition 1. (3 Volume set)
"The editors ably achieve their goal of showing students the connections between science and people's lives in the nineteenth century, thus helping to make both science and history more relevant to their own."
-- ARBA (2002) (ARBA 20030201)

"These volumes offer a perspective on how scientific
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Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction (Wiley Survival Guides in Engineering and Science)
Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction (Wiley Survival Guides in Engineering and Science)
A clear explanation of the technology for producing and delivering electricity

Electric Power Systems explains and illustrates how the electric grid works in a clear, straightforward style that makes highly technical material accessible. It begins with a thorough discussion of the underlying physical...

Green Tech: How to Plan and Implement Sustainable IT Solutions
Green Tech: How to Plan and Implement Sustainable IT Solutions
“Green” is a feel-good term. It has positive, earth-friendly connotations, often without much specificity—perfect for marketing purposes. Sustainability, on the other hand, is something we can measure and manage. We are sustainable when our use of resources does not permanently deplete or damage our supply, including natural...
Telecommunications Quality of Service Management: From Legacy to Emerging Services
Telecommunications Quality of Service Management: From Legacy to Emerging Services

An understanding of the basic concepts of quality and its management is essential for the professional management of Quality of Service (QoS) in telecommunications. As people increasingly rely on the new services for their lifestyle and work, their expectations for high reliability and quality are bound to rise. QoS is therefore likely to become...

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