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Author : John Tabak
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Renewable energy sources
ISBN : 9780816070862
Describes the nature of solar and geothermal energy and the processes by which these sources of energy can be harnessed to supply electricity power markets.
Author : Jochen Bundschuh,Guangnan Chen,D. Chandrasekharam,Janusz Piechocki
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351658140
The agri-food chain consumes about one third of the world’s energy production with about 12% of it for crop production and nearly 80% for processing, distribution, retail, preparation and cooking. The agri-food chain also accounts for 80-90% of total global freshwater use where 70% alone is for irrigation. Additionally, on a global scale, freshwater production consumes nearly 15% of the entire energy production. It can therefore be argued that making agriculture and the agri-food supply chain independent from fossil fuel use has a huge potential to contribute to global food security and climate protection not only for the next decades but also for the coming century. Provision of secure, accessible and environmentally sustainable supplies of water, energy and food must thus be a priority. One of the major objectives of the world’s scientists, farmers, decisions makers and industrialists is to overcome the present dependence on fossil fuels in the agro-food sector. This dependency increases the volatility of food prices and affects economic access to sustenance. This book provides a critical review of recent developments in solar, wind and geothermal energy applications in agriculture and the agro-food sector such as processing, distribution, retail, preparation and cooking.
Author : Lester Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136540752
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now. We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skilfully distils in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, he provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.
Author : United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : UOM:39015095246396
Author : Prem Narain Mathur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Geothermal power plants
ISBN : UOM:39015095106095
Author : Emmanuel D. Rogdakis , Irene P. Koronaki
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781681087191
Researchers, politicians and lay persons around the world agree that renewable energy technologies will play an increasingly important role in strengthening national economies in the future. The renewable energy industry has the potential to significantly increase power capacity of several countries and subsequently create many jobs. This book examines recent advances in specific renewable energy systems. Readers will learn about theoretical and applied perspectives which are key to addressing the major issues associated with such systems. Chapters cover solar energy systems, thermal energy storage, bioenergy, hydrogen production, geothermal energy and measurement techniques for these energy systems. Students in engineering programs, and engineers working in academia and the renewable energy sector will be able to broaden their understanding of complex renewable energy projects through the comprehensive overview of both the fundamental concepts and the technical issues covered in the text.
Author : William E. Glassley
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439859469
Historically, cost effective, reliable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly, use of geothermal energy has been limited to areas where obvious surface features pointed to the presence of a shallow local heat source, such as hot springs and volcanoes. However, recent technological advances have dramatically expanded the range and size of viable resources, especially for applications such as modular power generation, home heating, and other applications that can use heat directly. These recent developments have greatly expanded opportunities for utilizing geothermal energy. Reflecting current interest in alternative energy, Geothermal Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment explores where geothermal energy comes from and how to find it, how it can be accessed, successful applications, and improvements for future uses. The author reviews the background, theory, power generation, applications, strengths, weaknesses, and practical techniques for implementing geothermal energy projects. He stresses the links between acquisition and consumption and the environment. Packed with real world case studies and practical implementation steps, the book covers geosciences principles, exploration concepts and methods, drilling operations and techniques, equipment needs, and economic and environmental topics. Each chapter includes an annotated list of key sources that provide useful information beyond that contained in the text. The minor environmental impacts caused by geothermal energy gives it the potential to play an important role in the transition from fossil fuels to more sustainable fuels. Successful deployment, however, requires that the resource be matched to the application being developed. Rigorously covering all aspects of geothermal energy, this book provides up-to-date scientific information that can be used to discern applications and regions best suited for geothermal energy. Author William E. Glassley was recently interviewed on The Kathleen Show about using geothermal energy to heat and cool our homes.
Author : Elisabet Palomo,Antonio Colmenar-Santos,Enrique Rosales-Asensio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030956264
This book highlights the importance of geothermal energy by studying its potential either alone or in combination with solar energy, focusing on its industrial application. Its starting point is to identify in a thorough and precise manner the barriers that hinder the implementation of geothermal energy in Spain and the European Union and the measures to be taken to achieve its diffusion and regular use. Next, the book looks at how geothermal energy could contribute to this sector and to the desalination industry in particular, analysing a specific case in the south of Spain and extrapolating its results to a set of existing desalination plants in the Spanish Mediterranean with really interesting results in terms of economic amortisation and CO2 emissions avoided to the atmosphere. Beyond the desalination industry, this work demonstrates that almost 85% of the industrial processes of all industry in Spain can be carried out with very low, low and medium temperature geothermal resources and even applies its results to a set of existing solar plants, comparing in economic terms the results already obtained with those that would have been obtained if geothermal energy had been applied.
Author : Wendell A. Duffield,John Harvey Sass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : MINN:31951D02181793Q
Author : Carrie Gleason
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778729176
Geothermal Energy: Using Earths Furnace describes the three different ways electricity is produced from geothermal energydry steam, flash, and binary.
Author : Ursula Eicker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118707081
A modern and unique perspective on solar and geothermal technologies for heating and cooling buildings This book will have a broad appeal reaching practising engineers in the industry as well as students. With introductory sections for each technology described, material includes chapters on: geothermal energy use for the heating and cooling of buildings; a chapter on electrically driven heat pumps/chillers; material on night radiative cooling, photovoltaic thermal collectors, temperature modelling and thin film photovoltaic modelling. Includes general introductory sections for each technology with market potential and applications Covers an increasingly important component of energy courses Considers a broad range of alternative renewable energy supplies relevant to the building sector, such as geothermal energy with heat pump With a special focus on solar cooling, provides detailed physical models of all technologies and example calculations Unique in covering the fundamentals of meteorological modelling
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:761386568
Author : United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030040514319
Author : Soteris A Kalogirou
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780080922874
As perhaps the most promising of all the renewable energy sources available today, solar energy is becoming increasingly important in the drive to achieve energy independence and climate balance. This new book is the masterwork from world-renowned expert Dr. Soteris Kalogirou, who has championed solar energy for decades. The book includes all areas of solar energy engineering, from the fundamentals to the highest level of current research. The author includes pivotal subjects such as solar collectors, solar water heating, solar space heating and cooling, industrial process heat, solar desalination, photovoltaics, solar thermal power systems, and modeling of solar systems, including the use of artificial intelligence systems in solar energy systems, modeling and performance prediction. *Written by one of the world's most renowned experts in solar energy*Covers the hottest new developments in solar technology, such as solar cooling and desalination*Packed with quick look up tables and schematic diagrams for the most commonly used systems today'
Author : United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electric power
ISBN : MINN:31951P00933251U
