Discusses the availability, advantages, and environmental aspects of such alternative energy sources as solar power, wind energy, and hydropower.
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The Renewable Energy Workbook: A Companion Study Guide to The Renewable Energy Handbook
The Renewable Energy Workbook is designed to be used in conjunction with The Renewable Energy Handbook by anyone interested in learning more about renewable energy technologies. The workbook builds on the information presented in the handbook and provides practical examples and problem solving opportunities for learners. Together The Renewable Energy Handbook and The Renewable Energy Workbook provide students, educators, and self-taught learners with a comprehensive and complete resource package.
Since its release in 2003, The Renewable Energy Handbook has been a top selling technology book and is now being used by many colleges, universities, and other educational institutions as their renewable energy textbook. The Renewable Energy Workbook is the answer to requests from these educators for a more practical and hands-on learning tool.
Teaching materials related to this guide will be available to educators on the publisher’s website. An answer key to all problems is provided in the back of the workbook. The book is written in accessible, non-threatening language suitable for all readers and is also an excellent tool for someone looking to enter the renewable energy industry or for anyone thinking of integrating renewable energy into their home.
William (Bill) H. Kemp is the vice president of engineering of an energy sector corporation where he leads the development of low environmental impact hydroelectric and agricultural biogas systems. Bill is a leading expert in small and mid-scale renewable energy technologies. He is the author of four books, including The Renewable Energy Handbook. He and his wife live off the grid in eastern Ontario.
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Alternative scenarios analysis concerning different types of fuels used for the coverage of the energy requirements of a typical apartment building in … [An article from: Building and Environment]
This digital document is a journal article from Building and Environment, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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This paper focuses on the analysis (concerning energy and environmental performance) and comparison of different types of fuel intended either for direct use (e.g. domestic boiler combustion) or indirect use (production of electricity that will be consumed) in order to satisfy the energy requirements of a typical apartment building in Thessaloniki, Greece. The energy requirements that are being examined are: space heating, water heating, kitchen and cooking appliances, lighting and other various electrical appliances. For the purposes of this analysis an apartment building model has been designed that simulates combinations of these operations sorted in five scenarios in proportion with the fuel being used and the way electricity is generated. The analysis’ obtained results concern: pollutant emissions per kg, kWh or m^3 of the fuel being used, daily total emissions that correspond to the estimated fuel required to satisfy the energy needs of the apartment building and the financial comparison of all scenarios.
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This paper focuses on the analysis (concerning energy and environmental performance) and comparison of different types of fuel intended either for direct use (e.g. domestic boiler combustion) or indirect use (production of electricity that will be consumed) in order to satisfy the energy requirements of a typical apartment building in Thessaloniki, Greece. The energy requirements that are being examined are: space heating, water heating, kitchen and cooking appliances, lighting and other various electrical appliances. For the purposes of this analysis an apartment building model has been designed that simulates combinations of these operations sorted in five scenarios in proportion with the fuel being used and the way electricity is generated. The analysis’ obtained results concern: pollutant emissions per kg, kWh or m^3 of the fuel being used, daily total emissions that correspond to the estimated fuel required to satisfy the energy needs of the apartment building and the financial comparison of all scenarios.
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Photovoltaic Solar Energy Generation (Springer Series in Optical Sciences)
This comprehensive description and discussion of photovoltaics (PV) is presented at a level that makes it accessible to the interested academic. Starting with an historical overview, the text outlines the relevance of photovoltaics today and in the future. Then follows an introduction to the physical background of solar cells and the most important materials and technologies, with particular emphasis placed on future developments and prospects. The book goes beyond technology by also describing the path from the cell to the module to the system, proceeding to important applications such as grid-connected and stand-alone systems. The composition and development of the markets and the role of PV in future energy systems are also considered. Finally, the discussion turns to the future structure of energy supplies, expected to comprise more distributed generation, and addresses synergies and competition from other carbon-free energy sources.
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Wind Energy Equipment in India: A Strategic Reference, 2006
The primary audience for this report is managers involved with the highest levels of the strategic planning process and consultants who help their clients with this task. The user will not only benefit from the hundreds of hours that went into the methodology and its application, but also from its alternative perspective on strategic planning relating to wind energy equipment in India. As the editor of this report, I am drawing on a methodology developed at INSEAD, an international business school (www.insead.edu). For any given industry or sector, including wind energy equipment, the methodology decomposes a country’s strategic potential along four key dimensions: (1) latent demand, (2) micro-accessibility, (3) proxy operating pro-forma financials, and (4) macro-accessibility. A country may have very high latent demand, yet have low accessibility, making it a less attractive market than many smaller potential countries having higher levels of accessibility. With this perspective, this report provides both a micro and a macro strategic profile of wind energy equipment in India. It does so by compiling published information that directly relates to latent demand and accessibility, either at the micro or macro level. The reader new to India can quickly understand where India fits into a firm’s strategic perspective. In Chapter 2, the report investigates latent demand and micro-accessibility for wind energy equipment in India. In Chapters 3 and 4, the report covers proxy operating pro-forma financials and macro-accessibility in India. Macro-accessibility is a general evaluation of investment and business conditions in India.
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Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Road Vehicles (Green Energy and Technology)
Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Road Vehicles addresses the main issues related to the application of hydrogen fuel cell technology in the road transportation sector. A preliminary treatment is given on fuel resources and atmospheric pollution concerns which are closely related to the current technology (internal combustion engine) used for moving people and goods. The authors deal, in particular, with the problems that can hinder a widespread hydrogen market (production, storage and distribution), as well as giving an analysis of fuel cell technologies available for utilization of this energy carrier in the automotive field. Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Road Vehicles also examines the concerns faced during the design and realization of a PEM fuel cell system with optimal size and efficiency, evidencing the impact of the individual auxiliary components on energy losses and dynamic stack performance. The book ends with the analysis of two practical case studies on fuel cell propulsion systems. Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Road Vehicles is a useful text for researchers, professionals and advanced students in the fields of automotive and environmental engineering.
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Wind and Solar Power Systems
Wind and solar energy are pollution-free sources of abundant power. With renewable power generation expected to become more and more profitable with open access to transmission lines and rapid growth around the world, the design, operation, and control of alternative energy resources becomes an essential field of study.
Wind and Solar Power Systems provides a comprehensive treatment of this rapidly growing segment of the power industry. It provides the fundamentals of wind and solar power generation, energy conversion and storage, and the operational aspects of power electronics and the quality of power. It covers in detail the design, operation, and control methods applicable to stand-alone as well as grid-connected power systems and discusses the present status of and the on-going research in renewable power around the world.
Wind and Solar Power Systems stands as the most modern, complete book available on renewable energy. Electrical, environmental and mechanical engineering professionals along with policy-makers evaluating the renewable energy potential of their regions will find in it the background and the details they need for decision making.
Wind and Solar Power Systems provides a comprehensive treatment of this rapidly growing segment of the power industry. It provides the fundamentals of wind and solar power generation, energy conversion and storage, and the operational aspects of power electronics and the quality of power. It covers in detail the design, operation, and control methods applicable to stand-alone as well as grid-connected power systems and discusses the present status of and the on-going research in renewable power around the world.
Wind and Solar Power Systems stands as the most modern, complete book available on renewable energy. Electrical, environmental and mechanical engineering professionals along with policy-makers evaluating the renewable energy potential of their regions will find in it the background and the details they need for decision making.
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Small Wind Turbines: Analysis, Design, and Application (Green Energy and Technology)
Small Wind Turbines provides a thorough grounding in analysing, designing, building, and installing a small wind turbine. Small turbines are introduced by emphasising their differences from large ones and nearly all the analysis and design examples refer to small turbines.
The accompanying software includes MATLAB® programs for power production and starting performance, as well as programs for detailed multi-objective optimisation of blade design. A spreadsheet is also given to help readers apply the simple load model of the IEC standard for small wind turbine safety. Small Wind Turbines represents the distilled outcome of over twenty years experience in fundamental research, design and installation, and field testing of small wind turbines.
Small Wind Turbines is a suitable reference for student projects and detailed design studies, and also provides important background material for engineers and others using small wind turbines for remote power and distributed generation applications.
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Vital Energy: The 7 Keys to Invigorate Body, Mind, and Soul
The roller-coaster life of the flamboyant creator of General Motors
“A well-written biography.”–New York Times
“A well-executed glimpse of one of the giants of the automobile industry.”–Publishers Weekly
Long before Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, and Bill Gates, there was William C. Durant (1861-1947), the flamboyant businessman who made deals at warp speed to build General Motors and the automotive industry. Now in paperback, The Deal Maker brings Durant, a self-starter obsessed with making it and being seen as making it, to thrilling life. Thriving on the art of the deal, Durant was buying companies at the rate of one every thirty days at the height of his career. By 1910, he had brought together twenty-five automobile firms into what would become the General Motors empire. Then, gambling on a run on GM stock, Durant was forced into a buyout, which unseated him from GM, leaving him without the financial wherewithal to ever succeed again. Featuring some of the most important figures in the history of the automotive industry and American business, including Henry Ford, David Buick, Albert Champion, Louis Chevrolet, Alfred P. Sloan, and Pierre Du Pont, The Deal Maker is a fast-paced, rousing tale of Durant’s dizzying success and abject failure.The subject of energy is never far from most people’s minds. We wish we had more, we wonder where what we used to have went, and we worry that our future energy is overcommitted to work and other obligations from which we derive no pleasure.
Vital Energy seems the perfect book for solving this increasingly widespread dilemma. Based on the ancient healing system of Ayurveda, which originated in India, it will help you identify yourself as an earth-, fire-, or wind-based personality. (Earth people tend to be more nurturing, fire people more competitive and driven, wind people more flighty and creative.) And then it presents seven key ways in which each of those types can improve their lives: finding yourself, eliminating toxins, feeding yourself better, building loving relationships, exercising, finding meaning in your work, playing passionately, and finding happiness and contentment by simply being alive.
While that may sound like an ethereal set of goals and standards, Dr. David Simon’s advice is really focused and easy to apply. For example, in the chapter on exercise, a fire person is told to choose outdoor or water-based fitness activities and to not make exercise another way in which he asserts his competitive drive. In the chapter on building loving relationships, Dr. Simon offers a way to “metabolize” feelings so that you can digest them, absorb what you need, and eliminate the rest, as you would with food. There’s even advice on how to have better bowel movements in the morning.
Dr. Simon is medical director of Deepak Chopra’s Center for Well Being, so the readers most interested in Dr. Chopra’s work will probably be drawn to Vital Energy. But it would be a shame if this book only ended up in the hands of those already familiar with Ayurvedic medicine and philosophy. Vital Energy is a completely engaging, easy-to-follow introduction to Ayurveda, and anyone searching for better health, vitality, and well-being should give it a read. –Lou Schuler
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Solar Power (Energy Debate)
A topical new series that addresses the pros and cons of all energy courses. Each book looks at the fundamentals of each energy type with information on how they work, their benefits and limits, examples from around the world and the current and future questions. Debates run strongly throughout as readers are encouraged to look at how the type of energy affects people and planet Earth.
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