Energy category: 1670 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
This Department of Energy (DOE) report on the market for geothermal power technologies has been converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction. While geothermal energy technology has been in development in the United States for over 100 years, national interest in geothermal recently...
Solar Energy Engineering
Processes and Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Energy policy promoting sustainable development is transforming global energy markets. Solar power, the most abundant of all renewable resources, is crucial to greater achieving energy security and sustainability. This new edition of Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems from Prof. Soteris...
by Efstathios E (Stathis) Michaelides
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Alternative Energy Sources is designed to give the reader, a clear view of the role each form of alternative energy may play in supplying the energy needs of the human society in the near future (20-50 years).
The two first chapters on "energy demand and supply" and "environmental...
by Coleman Raphael
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
The purpose of this book is to demonstrate how our forward-looking and progressive nation can be free of dependence on limited energy sources, such as foreign oil. This book will define energy and describe its current uses and sources. We will ultimately recognize how we can economically and efficiently...
Advances in Energy Systems
The Large-scale Renewable Energy Integration Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
A guide to a multi-disciplinary approach that includes perspectives from noted experts in the energy and utilities fields
Advances in Energy Systems offers a stellar collection of articles selected from the acclaimed journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Review: Energy and Environment. The journalcovers...
Energy Conversion and Management
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This book provides an overall view of energy conversion and management in industry and in buildings by following the streams of energy from the site boundaries to the end users. Written for an audience of both practitioners and faculty/students, Energy Conversion and Management: Principles and Applications...
Energy at the Crossroads
Global Perspectives and Uncertainties
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
An objective, comprehensive, and accessible examination of today's most crucial problem: preserving the environment in the face of society's insatiable demand for energy.
In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern...
Unlocking Energy Innovation
How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Experts outline a plan to overhaul the U.S. energy innovation system for accelerated, large-scale adoption of reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy technologies.
Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity...
Energy Efficiency
Building a Clean, Secure Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The entire world, especially the United States, is in the midst of an energy revolution. Since the oil embargo of 1973, individuals, corporations, and other organizations have found ways to economically reduce energy use. In this book, Jim Sweeney examines the energy policies and practices of the...
Feeding the Fire
The Lost History and Uncertain Future of Mankind's Energy Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
From the first spark created by human hands thousands of years ago, mankind has grown dependent on nature’s vast stores of energy to build, explore, and experiment. Our expanding knowledge and technologies have come from the felling of forests to the harnessing of wind and water, from the burning...
by Christian Altrichter
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Engineering - Power Engineering, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (ITT Köln und Universidad Autonoma San Luis Potosí), course: Master in Technology & Resource Management, language: English, abstract: Abstract: This work aims to provide a solution...
Energy Technology 2018
Carbon Dioxide Management and Other Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This collection focuses on energy efficient technologies including innovative ore beneficiation, smelting technologies, recycling and waste heat recovery. The volume also covers various technological aspects of sustainable energy ecosystems, processes that improve energy efficiency, reduce thermal...
by Roberto Cui
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Energy Sciences, grade: 1C, University of Stirling (School of Arts and Humanities - Division of Law and Philosophy), course: LLM International Energy Law and Policy, language: English, abstract: In recent times, the European institutions have been increasingly...
by Nur Azha Putra, Mely Caballero-Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book aims to introduce and discuss the policy issues and challenges surrounding the development of nuclear power energy in Southeast Asia (SEA). Nuclear energy is poised for substantial growth in a region that is in need of more sustainable and clean energy source against the background of rising...