Energy category: 1670 books
Simulation und energiewirtschaftliche Potenzialanalyse für Stromspeicher sowie für den Einsatz von flexiblen Energieanlagen
Für eine Stromversorgung mit 100% regenerativen Energien im Landkreis Harz
Language: German
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften - Energietechnik, Note: 1,7, Universität Kassel, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird, bei einer 100% regenerativen Stromversorgung der Modellregion Landkreis Harz, eine energiewirtschaftliche Potenzialanalyse...
Nuclear Energy
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades. Worries about the dangers that nuclear plants and their radioactive waste posed to nearby communities grew over time, and plant construction in the United States...
by Annoula Paschalidou, Michael Tsatiris, Kyriaki Kitikidou
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
This book performs a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis to examine the current food crisis and how it relates to the use of crops for energy. It analyses how energy crops may help solve humankind’s environmental changes and summarises the economic and practical changes...
Renewable
The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Where does the energy we use come from? It's absolutely vital to every single thing we do every day, but for most people, it is utterly invisible. Flick a switch and the lights go on. It might as well be magic.
Science writer Jeremy Shere shows us in Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative...
by Robert J. Byer
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
The US has not had a rational energy policy for many years. Instead we created energy legislation focused on conservation and citing energy independence as the principle cause. Some legislation focused on protecting the environment primarily by creating moratoria over designated geographic areas....
The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature
Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2000
The Energy Evolution, the final volume in the revolutionary Eco-Technology series, contains radical environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s groundbreaking writings on methods for energy generation that harness the enormous potential of Nature.
Nature produces energy by slow, cool, implosive...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
What contribution can nuclear energy make to improve the security of energy supply? This study, which examines a selection of OECD member countries, qualitatively and quantitatively validates the often intuitive assumption that, as a largely domestic source of electricity with stable costs and no...
Clean Energy Nation
Freeing America from the Tyranny of Fossil Fuels
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In the vein of “An Inconvenient Truth,” a sobering assessment of our nation’s energy policies and a stirring call for change. Dangerous CO2 emissions, massive oil spills, dwindling supplies—the problems with fossil fuels are driving a long-overdue reassessment of our nation’s energy policies....
by Francisco Díaz-González, Andreas Sumper, Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Over the last century, energy storage systems (ESSs) have continued to evolve and adapt to changing energy requirements and technological advances. Energy Storage in Power Systems describes the essential principles needed to understand the role of ESSs in modern electrical power systems, highlighting...
The Water-Food-Energy Nexus
Processes, Technologies, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Exponential growth of the worldwide population requires increasing amounts of water, food, and energy. However, as the quantity of available fresh water and energy sources directly affecting cost of food production and transportation diminishes, technological solutions are necessary to secure sustainable...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Neutron Applications in Materials for Energy collects results and conclusions of recent neutron-based investigations of materials that are important in the development of sustainable energy. Chapters are authored by leading scientists with hands-on experience in the field, providing overviews, recent...
Technology and Energy Sources Monitoring
Control, Efficiency, and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
As energy technology has emerged as an essential way to provide efficiency and environmental safety, monitoring these energy sources is a way of measuring the effectiveness of the applications and the fundamentals of each design. Technology and Energy Sources Monitoring: Control, Efficiency, and Optimization...
Power Electronics for Renewable and Distributed Energy Systems
A Sourcebook of Topologies, Control and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
While most books approach power electronics and renewable energy as two separate subjects,
Power Electronics for Renewable and Distributed Energy Systems takes an integrative approach; discussing power electronic converters topologies, controls and integration that are specific to the renewable and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The book analyzes energy technologies, business models and policies to promote sustainable development. It proposes a set of recommendations for further activities and networking on access to energy and renewable energies and promotes an integrated approach to sustainable resource management. The...