Solar Energy Books
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Our Renewable Future - Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy
The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power. Driven by the need to avert catastrophic climate change and by the depletion of easily accessible oil, coal, and natural gas, this ...
By Island Press
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Introduction to Renewable Energy, Second Edition
This book integrates economic, social, environmental, policy and engineering issues related to renewable energy. It covers fundamentals, including the transfer of energy, as well as the limitations of natural resources. Starting with solar power, the text illustrates how energy from the sun is transferred and stored; used for heating, cooling and lighting; collected and concentrated and converted ...
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The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy
The energy transition is here. As fossil fuel resources shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old economy, fueled largely by coal and oil, is being replaced with one powered by solar and wind ...
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Environmental Impacts of Renewable Energy
All energy sources affect the environment in which we live. While fossil fuels may essentially do more harm, renewable energy sources can also pose a threat to the environment. Allowing for the various renewable energy sources: solar, wind, hydro, biomass, and geothermal, Environmental Impacts of Renewable Energy examines the environmental effects of all available renewable or alternative ...
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Renewable Energy Applications for Freshwater Production
Worldwide, many regions have a great potential to cover part of their pressing water needs by renewable energy powered water treatment processes using either thermal or membrane based technologies. Not only arid and semiarid regions are increasingly exposed to water shortage but also many other regions face a limitation of freshwater resources either by increasing contamination of surface water ...
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Nuclear (II), Solar, and Geothermal Energy
These two volumes feature over 325 nuclear-related standards.Volume 12.02 covers: Nuclear Technology and Applicationsstandards cover behavior and use of nuclear structural materials, dosimetry for radiation processing, food irradiation processing and packaging, nuclear radiation metrology, and decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear facilities and components. Solar ...
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Nuclear (II), Solar, and Geothermal Energy
These two volumes feature over 325 nuclear-related standards.Volume 12.02 covers: Nuclear Technology and Applicationsstandards cover behavior and use of nuclear structural materials, dosimetry for radiation processing, food irradiation processing and packaging, nuclear radiation metrology, and decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear facilities and components. Solar ...
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Compound Energy Systems
Green energy is essential to the development of a sustainable society but its output can be unstable. It is therefore necessary to develop a network where both conventional and green energy systems cooperate to generate a stable, compound supply. Compound Energy Systems: Optimal Operation Methods describes the construction and operation of compound energy systems using the latest optimization ...
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Nuclear, Solar, and Geothermal Energy
This section includes Volumes 12.01 and 12.02:Volume 12.01 Nuclear Energy (I) Volume 12.02 Nuclear (II), Solar, and Geothermal EnergyPrices for print and CD-ROM reflect the ASTM discount for purchasing an entire section. Sections must be ...
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Nuclear, Solar, and Geothermal Energy
This section includes Volumes 12.01 and 12.02:Volume 12.01 Nuclear Energy (I) Volume 12.02 Nuclear (II), Solar, and Geothermal EnergyPrices for print and CD-ROM reflect the ASTM discount for purchasing an entire section. Sections must be ...
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Building Integrated Photovoltaic Thermal Systems
Solar photovoltaics is one of the most promising renewable energy technologies, producing electricity on site directly from the solar radiation without harming the environment and depletion of materials. The Building Integrated Photovoltaic Thermal (BIPVT) system is a technology which merges PV and thermal systems, simultaneously providing both electric and thermal energy. Through this ...
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Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics
As a result of resurgent interest in renewable energy systems, the application of nanotechnology to photovoltaics has seen major advances in recent years. This book describes such efforts with an emphasis on practical demonstrations and discussions of the associated technical challenges. Each chapter offers a brief review of the nanostructure class considered, key applications beyond ...
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Solar Cell Technology and Applications
Solar cell technology will not realize its full potential until mass scale photovoltaic conversion for domestic, commercial, and industrial applications become economically feasible. This volume brings active researchers and potential manufacturers and investors up to date on the newest advances in the field, covering the latest in materials including low-cost high-efficiency elements and the ...
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Nuclear Energy (II), Solar, and Geothermal Energy
These two volumes feature over 300 nuclear-related standards.Volume 12.02 covers: Nuclear Technology and Applicationsstandards cover behavior and use of nuclear structural materials, dosimetry for radiation processing, food irradiation processing and packaging, nuclear radiation metrology, and decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear facilities and components. Solar ...
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Nuclear Energy (II), Solar, and Geothermal Energy
These two volumes feature over 300 nuclear-related standards.Volume 12.02 covers: Nuclear Technology and Applicationsstandards cover behavior and use of nuclear structural materials, dosimetry for radiation processing, food irradiation processing and packaging, nuclear radiation metrology, and decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear facilities and components. Solar ...
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Solar Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment
Drawing on the authors’ extensive research and project implementation around the globe, Solar Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment covers solar energy resources, thermal and photovoltaic systems, and the economics involved in using solar energy. It provides background theory on solar energy as well as useful technical information for implementing solar energy applications. The book ...
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Energy Portfolios: Customization and Management
Report on energy as of one of the most important issues of the twenty-first century. It discuses how countries deal with the composition of their energy portfolio, consistent with the endowment of energy resources, technologies and social, economical and environmental impacts, like CO2 emissions. In detail, the diversification of energy sources is treated. The role of non-carbon emitting sources ...
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Nuclear, Solar, and Geothermal Energy
This section includes Volumes 12.01 and 12.02:Volume 12.01 Nuclear Energy (I) Volume 12.02 Nuclear (II), Solar, and Geothermal EnergyPrices for print and CD-ROM reflect the ASTM discount for purchasing an entire section. Sections must be ...
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Nuclear, Solar, and Geothermal Energy
This section includes Volumes 12.01 and 12.02:Volume 12.01 Nuclear Energy (I) Volume 12.02 Nuclear (II), Solar, and Geothermal EnergyPrices for print and CD-ROM reflect the ASTM discount for purchasing an entire section. Sections must be ...
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Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
Several forms of thin-film solar cells are being examined as alternatives to silicon-solar cells—one of the most promising technologies is the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC), with proven efficiencies that approach 11%. This book, which provides a comprehensive look at this promising technology, aims to provide both a graduate level text that brings together the fundamentals of DSC from three ...
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