Renewable energy and climate change
This dazzling introductory textbook encompasses the full range of today's important renewable energy technologies. Solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind, hydro, biomass and geothermal energy receive balanced treatment with one exciting and informative chapter devoted to each. As well as a complete...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English German |
| PhysicalDescription: | 1 online resource (xii, 308 p.) col. ill., maps. |
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Hoboken, N.J.
Wiley
c2010.
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| ISBN: | 9780470686713 0470686715 9781119994381 1119994381 |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost |
Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Our Hunger for Energy
- The Climate Before the Collapse?
- From Wasting Energy to Saving Energy and Reducing Carbon Dioxide
- Carbon-Free Energy
- Vision or Utopia?
- Photovoltaics ₆ Energy from Sand
- Solar Thermal Systems ₆ Year-Round Heating from the Sun
- Solar Power Plants ₆ Even More Energy from the Sun
- Wind Power Systems ₆ Electricity from Thin Air
- Hydropower Plants ₆ Wet Energy
- Geothermal Energy ₆ Power from the Deep
- Heat Pumps ₆ from Cold to Hot
- Biomass ₆ Energy from Nature
- The Hydrogen Industry and Fuel Cells
- Sunny Prospects ₆ Examples of Sustainable Energy Supply
- Appendix
- References
- Index.
- Our hunger for energy
- The climate before the collapse?
- From wasting energy to saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide
- Carbon-free energy
- vision or utopia?
- Photovoltaics
- energy from sand
- Solar thermal systems
- year-round heating from the sun
- Solar power plants
- even more energy from the sun
- Wind power systems
- electricity from thin air
- Hydropower plants
- wet energy
- Geothermal energy
- power from the deep
- Heat pumps
- from cold to hot
- Biomass
- energy from nature
- The hydrogen industry and fuel cells
- Sunny prospects
- examples of sustainable energy supply.
