Energy category: 1670 books
Organic Solar Cells
Materials, Devices, Interfaces, and Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Current energy consumption mainly depends on fossil fuels that are limited and can cause environmental issues such as greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. These factors have stimulated the search for alternate, clean, and renewable energy sources. Solar cells are some of the most promising...
Hydrogen Energy
Challenges and Solutions for a Cleaner Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
This book describes the challenges and solutions the energy sector faces by shifting towards a hydrogen based fuel economy. The most current and up-to-date efforts of countries and leaders in the automotive sector are reviewed as they strive to develop technology and find solutions to production,...
by Tetyana Baydyk, Ernst Kussul, Donald C. Wunsch II
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
After an introduction to renewable energy technologies, the authors present computational intelligence techniques for optimizing the manufacture of related technologies, including solar concentrators. In particular the authors present new applications for their neural classifiers for image and pattern...
Renewable Energy and its Innovative Technologies
Proceedings of ICEMIT 2017, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
The book features innovative scientific research by scientists, academicians and students, presented at the International Conference on Energy, Materials and Information Technology, 2017 at Amity University Jharkhand, India. Covering all the promising renewable energies and their related technologies,...
Chalcogenide Materials for Energy Conversion
Pathways to Oxygen and Hydrogen Reactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This book addresses electrocatalysis based on chalcogenides, particularly in the nanoscale domain. Special attention is paid to the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The book provides an introduction to materials synthesis; the basic principles of electrocatalysis;...
by Miguel F. Acevedo
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Introduction to Renewable Power Systems and the Environment with R showcases the fundamentals of electrical power systems while examining their relationships with the environment. To address the broad range of interrelated problems that come together when generating electricity, this reference guide...
Thorium—Energy for the Future
Select Papers from ThEC15
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
This book comprises selected proceedings of the ThEC15 conference. The book presents research findings on various facets of thorium energy, including exploration and mining, thermo-physical and chemical properties of fuels, reactor physics, challenges in fuel fabrication, thorium fuel cycles, thermal...
Thermal Energy Systems
Design and Analysis, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Thermal Energy Systems: Design and Analysis, Second Edition presents basic concepts for simulation and optimization, and introduces simulation and optimization techniques for system modeling. This text addresses engineering economy, optimization, hydraulic systems, energy systems, and system simulation....
by Stefanie Elzholz
Language: German
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Energiewissenschaften, Note: 1,9, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Infrastruktur und Ressourcenmanagement), Veranstaltung: Energy System Modelling, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In Europe, a 'new' unconventional energy resource begins to be explored....
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
What are renewable sources of energy? Why are they preferred over the nonrenewable sources? You’ll know the answers to these questions in the pages of this environment book for kids. Caring for the environment starts with knowledge. You want your children to make informed decisions and the first step to that would be ownership of this book. Secure a copy today!
Comeback
America's New Economic Boom
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Charles R. Morris's The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008) was the first book to warn of the impending financial crash in all its horrific scale and speed. Now, with Comeback, Morris reveals that the United States is on the brink of a strong recovery that could last for twenty years or more.
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Blowout in the Gulf
The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The story of how a chain of failures, missteps, and bad decisions led to America's biggest environmental disaster.
On April 20, 2010, the gigantic drilling rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven crew members and causing a massive eruption of oil from BP's Macondo...
Coal Wars
The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Since the late 18th century, when it emerged as a source of heating and, later, steam power, coal has brought untold benefits to mankind. Even today, coal generates almost 45 percent of the world's power. Our modern technological society would be inconceivable without coal and the energy it provides....
Harvest the Wind
America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Winds sweeping across the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to the declining rural communities of the central United States. Nowhere is wind's promise more...