Renewable Energy Resources by John Twidell and Tony Weir, Taylor & Francis, 2-nd edition
Added by: cordelia | Karma: 69.08 | Black Hole | 26 June 2009
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Renewable Energy Resources is a superb reference work. Its ideal for student use - authoritative, compact and comprehensive, with plenty of references. What we need to combat climate change is a stream of students and graduates with the knowledge they can gain from this book suitable not only for engineering students but also for policy-makers and all those concerned with energy and the environment.
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This is a great book about preparing for short-term societal or environmental crises - how to conserve water when the water's not running (after a hurricane, say), how to stay warm and safe when the ice-storm of the century wipes out your natural gas and electricity, or an earthquake shakes your house down around your ears in the middle of the night. Technology, too, is given its due - renewable energy sources like solar and wind are discussed and the best water filters on the market.
Edited by: cordelia - 10 November 2010
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Beginning with an overview of renewables (including biomass, hydroelectricity, geothermal, tidal, wind, and solar power) this book explores the fundamentals of various renewable energy systems. The main focus is on technologies with high development potential such as solar thermal systems, photovoltaics, and wind power.
The only rigorous theory and applications book available
Provides the principles of renewable energy flows/sources and energy conversion processes
Details the significant expansion of the field since the publication of the previous editions
This book covers all aspects of renewable energy, from the processes on the sun and in the atmosphere that gives rise to solar radiation, wind, waves, evaporation and the precipitation, forests and plants, over the techniques for deriving energy for society from each of the natural energy flows, and to the economic environmental impacts of each of the natural energy flows, and to the economic and environmental impacts of using renewable energy. Along the way, auxiliary technologies for energy management and storage are introduced, in order to show how demand can be met at all times despite use of variable energy sources.
