Anne Maczulak. Renewable energy: Sources and Methods

1 edition - Ventus Publishing ApS, 2010. – 88 p. The need for this type of book is very well documented, the current consumption of energy is unsustainable and humans have to change their habits and or utilise this source and other sources of renewable energy such as solar, hydro and biomass, but there is so much work before we can rely completely on renewable energy sources. This book aims to describe the fundamentals of wind energy and the pe...

CRC Press, 2011. 260 p. ISBN:1420086006 In the current push to convert to renewable sources of energy, many issues raised years ago on the economics and the difficulties of siting energy storage are once again being raised today. When large amounts of wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources are added to existing electrical grids, efficient and manageable energy storage becomes a crucial component to allowing a range of eco-friendly reso...

Lucent Books, 2005 - 106 p. ISBN 1–59018–530– 7. Energy drives all life and is a key component to how humanity works, lives, and sustains itself. Due to the depletion of existing energy sources and the damage being done to the earth's ecosystems, renewable, non-polluting energy sources such as solar, wind, and geothermal power, are being developed and implemented. New Energy Sources. The Development of Energy. Solar Power. Wind Power. Hydro...

World Scientific Publishing, 2011, 360 pages Energy may be the most important factor that will influence the shape of society in the 21st century. The cost and availability of energy significantly impacts our quality of life, the health of national economies, the relationships between nations, and the stability of our environment. What kind of energy do we want to use in our future? Will there be enough? What will be the consequences of our deci...

CRС Prеss, 2007. 1560 p. ISBN:0849317304 Brought to you by the creator of numerous bestselling handbooks, the Handbook of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy provides a thorough grounding in the analytic techniques and technological developments that underpin renewable energy use and environmental protection. The handbook emphasizes the engineering aspects of energy conservation and renewable energy. Taking a world view, the editors discuss...

First published June 2010 Printed in India ISBN 978-953-7619-81-7 578 p. In electrical power generation system the present trend is to maximize the renewable energy penetration ratio as much as possible. Among the renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, biogas/biomass, tidal, geothermal, etc., wind energy has the huge potential to play an important role in energy market along with conventional energy sources. Therefore, reasonably the r...

InTech, 2011. 338 p. ISBN:978-953-307-408-5. Worldwide attention to environmental issues combined with the energy crisis force us to reduce greenhouse emissions and increase the usage of renewable energy sources as a solution to providing an efficient environment. This book addresses the current issues of sustainable growth and applications in renewable energy sources. The fifteen chapters of the book have been divided into two sections to orga...

3rd edition. Acаdemic Prеss / Elsevier Science. 1979 / 2004. 945 p. ISBN:0126561508 Renewable energy is the collective name for a number of energy resources available to man on Earth. Their conversion has always played an important role for the inhabitants of the planet, and apart from a period of negligible length – relative to evolutionary and historical time scales – the renewable energy sources have been the only ones accessible to mankind....

Springer, 2009. 323 p. ISBN:9048132940 Sustainable Biotechnology; Sources of Renewable Energy draws on the vast body of knowledge about renewable resources for biofuel research, with the aim to bridge the technology gap and focus on critical aspects of lignocellulosic biomolecules and the respective mechanisms regulating their bioconversion to liquid fuels and other value-added products. This book is a collection of outstanding research reports...

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2011, 851 pages Effects of environmental, economic, social, political and technical factors have led to the rapid deployment of various sources of renewable energy-based power generation. The incorporation of these generation technologies have led to the development of a broad array of new methods and tools to integrate this new form of generation into the power system network. This book, arranged into six se...