Renewable energy power for a sustainable future

Introducing renewable energy / Godfrey Boyle, Bob Everett and Gary AlexanderSolar thermal energy / Bob Everett -- Solar photovoltaics / Godfrey Boyle -- Bioenergy / Dick Morris and Jonathan Scurlock -- Hydroelectricity / Janet Ramage -- Tidal power David Elliott -- Wind energy / Derek Taylor -- Wave...

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Körperschaften: The Open University Energy Research Group (BerichterstatterIn), Open University (BerichterstatterIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Boyle, Godfrey (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Oxford u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 2012
Ausgabe:3. ed.
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Zusammenfassung:Introducing renewable energy / Godfrey Boyle, Bob Everett and Gary AlexanderSolar thermal energy / Bob Everett -- Solar photovoltaics / Godfrey Boyle -- Bioenergy / Dick Morris and Jonathan Scurlock -- Hydroelectricity / Janet Ramage -- Tidal power David Elliott -- Wind energy / Derek Taylor -- Wave energy / Les Druckers -- Geothermal energy / John Garnish and Geoff Brown -- Integrating renewable energy / Bob Everett and Godfrey Boyle -- Appendix A. Energy arithmetic : a quick reference -- Appendix B. Levelized costs of renewable energy
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 prospects. -- Publisher description
Beschreibung:XV, 566 S.
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
27 cm
ISBN:9780199545339
978-0-19-954533-9