Energy category: 1670 books
A Guide for Developing Zero Energy Communities
The Zec Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
A Planning Guide for Developing Zero Energy Communities (also called The ZEC Guide) helps developers, corporations, institutions, governments, utility companies, and communities create cities, campuses, and neighborhoods that, by design, conserve energy and incorporate electric vehiclecharging using...
by Milton W Cole, Angela D Lueking, David L Goodstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Whether on personal health, politics, or climate change, we are constantly bombarded with more numerous 'breaking news' articles than we have time for. In such an environment, how can we tell which to read, or which is even true.
Science of the Earth, Climate and Energy helps readers understand...
Resurgence of Nuclear Power
Challenges and Opportunities for Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book focuses on the issue of ‘resurgence of nuclear power’ and discusses the feasibility of nuclear in the energy mix of Asian economies. It discusses nuclear energy sector in detail in the context of India, a country where currently overseas supply of hydrocarbon fuels plays a major role...
by Olimpo Anaya-Lara, John Olav Tande, Kjetil Uhlen
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
A COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE TO THE MOST RECENT ADVANCEMENTS IN OFFSHORE WIND TECHNOLOGY
Offshore Wind Energy Technology offers a reference based on the research material developed by the acclaimed Norwegian Research Centre for Offshore Wind Technology (NOWITECH) and material developed by the...
Resilient Energy Systems
Renewables: Wind, Solar, Hydro
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Renewable energy systems are playing an important role in the current discourse on energy security and sustainability. Scientific, engineering and economic solutions are adopted, and their is a constant effort to understand mechanisms and options to allow a faster penetration of renewable systems...
Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century
World Nuclear University Press
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
The onset of the 21st century has coincided with mounting scientific evidence of the severe environmental impact of global energy consumption. In response, governments and environmentalists on every continent have begun to re-evaluate the benefits of nuclear power as a clean, non-emitting energy resource....
Use, Operation and Maintenance of Renewable Energy Systems
Experiences and Future Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
This book addresses the use, operation and maintenance of new renewable energy systems, taking into account their integration in the current electrical markets and in the new emergent uses of energy. The book is based on practical experiences which present different perspectives about what occurs...
Nonlinearity in Energy Harvesting Systems
Micro- and Nanoscale Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book is a single-source guide to nonlinearity and nonlinear techniques in energy harvesting, with a focus on vibration energy harvesters for micro and nanoscale applications. The authors demonstrate that whereas nonlinearity was avoided as an undesirable phenomenon in early energy harvesters,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
This book discusses the design and scheduling of residential, industrial, and commercial energy hubs, and their integration into energy storage technologies and renewable energy sources. Each chapter provides theoretical background and application examples for specific power systems including, solar,...
Hydrogen Economy
Supply Chain, Life Cycle Analysis and Energy Transition for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Hydrogen Economy: Supply Chain, Life Cycle Analysis and Energy Transition for Sustainability explores the challenges for the transition into a sustainable hydrogen economy. In this book, experts from various academic backgrounds discuss the tools and methodologies for the analysis, planning, design...
Energy Security in Japan
Challenges After Fukushima
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
For a country already uneasy about energy security, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which caused a nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, turned pre-existing Japanese concern about the availability of energy into outright anxiety. The subsequent closure of many nuclear reactors...
Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2009
Proceedings of the First International Symposium of Global COE Program "Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming - Toward CO2 Zero-emission Energy System"
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Emissions of CO2 have come to be regarded as the main factor in climate change in recent years, and how to control them has become a pressing issue. The problem cannot simply be labeled a technological one, however, because it is deeply involved with social and economic issues. Since 2008, the Global...
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technologies for Building and Environmental Applications
Options for a Greener Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This diverse resource on renewable energy and sustainable technologies highlights the status, state of the art, challenges, advancements and options in areas such as energy recovery systems, turbine ventilators, green composites, biofuels and bio-resources for energy production, wind energy, integrated...
Green Energy
Sustainable Electricity Supply with Low Environmental Impact
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Green Energy: Sustainable Electricity Supply with Low Environmental Impact defines the future of the world’s electricity supply system, exploring the key issues associated with global warming, and which energy systems are best suited to reducing it.
Electricity generation is a concentrated...