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Materials Challenges in Alternative and Renewable Energy II
Wiley 2013; US$ 125.00The overall efficiency, effectiveness, and practicality of potential future energy sources and systems are directly related to many materials-related factors. This volume features 30 papers presented during the 2012 Materials Challenges in Alternative and Renewable Energy Conference. They cover the latest developments involving materials for alternative... more...
Tracking Solar Concentrators
Springer 2013; US$ 39.95Harnessing a multitude of complementary green energy sources is the only plausible way to satisfy the energy demands of a greedy global economy. The potential of solar energy (being the most abundant) in fulfilling part of the energy requirements of mankind is immense and constitutes the focal point of this book. A self-powered solar tracker that points... more...
Advanced Renewable Energy Sources
Royal Society of Chemistry 2011; US$ 59.00This book is an ideal reference text for teaching renewable energy to engineering and science students, as well as a reference book for scientists and professionals doing self study on the subject. The book has twelve chapters and starts with the definition and classification of renewable and non renewable energy and their status at global level. This... more...
Performance of European Wind Turbines
Spon Press 1991; US$ 260.00The statistical analyses presented are the evaluations obtained from the operational data of wind turbines within the member countries of the European Community and provide information on individual and mean energy production, capacity factors, operational time, failure analysis, economics and energy pay back. more...
Nonimaging Optics
Elsevier Science 2005; US$ 120.95From its inception nearly 30 years ago, the optical subdiscipline now referred to as nonimaging optics, has experienced dramatic growth. The term nonimaging optics is concerned with applications where imaging formation is not important but where effective and efficient collection , concentration, transport and distribution of light energy is - i.e.... more...
Solar Energy, Technology Policy, and Institutional Values
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 32.00Solar Energy, Technology Policy, and Institutional Values provides a historical case study that analyzes US renewable energy policy from the end of World War II through the energy crisis of the 1970s. The book illuminates the ways beliefs and values come to dominate official problem frames and get entrenched in institutions. more...
Renewable Energy
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 125.00Renewable energy has received high levels of attention in recent years as an alternative to traditional hydrocarbons. Governments, industry and consumers have adopted and promoted renewable technologies in response to concerns about energy security and the environment, and as a solution to electricity access problems in developing countries. more...
Power Electronics for Modern Wind Turbines
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2006; US$ 35.00Wind energy is now the world's fastest growing energy source. In the past 10 years, the global wind energy capacity has increased rapidly. The installed global wind power capacity has grown to 47.317 GW from about 3.5 GW in 1994. The global wind power industry installed 7976 MW in 2004, an increase in total installed generating capacity of 20%. The... more...









