Author: Tariq Muneer
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030920100
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book focuses on the current situation of two technologies for electricity production from renewable energy sources, wind and solar photovoltaic energy, analysing and describing both technologies in detail. Four regions of the world, with distinct energy markets and conditions, are explored. Together, the USA, Europe, China and Japan represent one third of the world’s population and occupy 25% of the planet, therefore offering a representation of a global picture. In each of these regions, the development of the solar and wind energy is examined, and the economic implications are described.
The Coming of Age of Solar and Wind Power
Author: Tariq Muneer
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030920100
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book focuses on the current situation of two technologies for electricity production from renewable energy sources, wind and solar photovoltaic energy, analysing and describing both technologies in detail. Four regions of the world, with distinct energy markets and conditions, are explored. Together, the USA, Europe, China and Japan represent one third of the world’s population and occupy 25% of the planet, therefore offering a representation of a global picture. In each of these regions, the development of the solar and wind energy is examined, and the economic implications are described.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030920100
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book focuses on the current situation of two technologies for electricity production from renewable energy sources, wind and solar photovoltaic energy, analysing and describing both technologies in detail. Four regions of the world, with distinct energy markets and conditions, are explored. Together, the USA, Europe, China and Japan represent one third of the world’s population and occupy 25% of the planet, therefore offering a representation of a global picture. In each of these regions, the development of the solar and wind energy is examined, and the economic implications are described.
Wind Energy Comes of Age
Author: Paul Gipe
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471109242
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
He cites improvements in the performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness of modern wind turbines to support his contention that wind energy has come of age as a commercial technology.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471109242
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
He cites improvements in the performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness of modern wind turbines to support his contention that wind energy has come of age as a commercial technology.
Wind Power
Author: Paul Gipe
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1931498148
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Wind energy today is a booming worldwide industry. The technology has truly come of age, with better, more reliable machinery and a greater understanding of how and where wind power makes sense -- from the independent homestead to a grid-connected utility-wide perspective. Heightened concerns about our environment mean that this resurgence of interest in wind -- a natural and widespread power source -- is here to stay. Wind Power is the completely revised and expanded edition of Paul Gipes definitive 1993 book, Wind Power for Home and Business. In addition to expanded sections on gauging wind resources and siting wind turbines, this edition includes new examples and case studies of successful wind systems, international sources for new and used equipment, and hundreds of color photographs and illustrations.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1931498148
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Wind energy today is a booming worldwide industry. The technology has truly come of age, with better, more reliable machinery and a greater understanding of how and where wind power makes sense -- from the independent homestead to a grid-connected utility-wide perspective. Heightened concerns about our environment mean that this resurgence of interest in wind -- a natural and widespread power source -- is here to stay. Wind Power is the completely revised and expanded edition of Paul Gipes definitive 1993 book, Wind Power for Home and Business. In addition to expanded sections on gauging wind resources and siting wind turbines, this edition includes new examples and case studies of successful wind systems, international sources for new and used equipment, and hundreds of color photographs and illustrations.
The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy
Author: Lester R. Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393351149
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way. As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil fuels rise, and concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old economy, fueled by oil, natural gas, and coal is being replaced with one powered by wind, solar, and geothermal energy. The Great Transition details the accelerating pace of this global energy revolution. As many countries become less enamored with coal and nuclear power, they are embracing an array of clean, renewable energies. Whereas solar energy projects were once small-scale, largely designed for residential use, energy investors are now building utility-scale solar projects. Strides are being made: some of the huge wind farm complexes under construction in China will each produce as much electricity as several nuclear power plants, and an electrified transport system supplemented by the use of bicycles could reshape the way we think about mobility.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393351149
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way. As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil fuels rise, and concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old economy, fueled by oil, natural gas, and coal is being replaced with one powered by wind, solar, and geothermal energy. The Great Transition details the accelerating pace of this global energy revolution. As many countries become less enamored with coal and nuclear power, they are embracing an array of clean, renewable energies. Whereas solar energy projects were once small-scale, largely designed for residential use, energy investors are now building utility-scale solar projects. Strides are being made: some of the huge wind farm complexes under construction in China will each produce as much electricity as several nuclear power plants, and an electrified transport system supplemented by the use of bicycles could reshape the way we think about mobility.
The Coming Dark Age: The Impact of the War to Ban Fossil Fuels
Author: Steven J Bolen
Publisher: Decisions Consulting, LLC
ISBN: 1639444548
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
IS A NEW DARK AGE COMING? As a candidate, President Biden boldly promised that America “would transition away from the oil and gas industry,” replacing it with “renewable energy over time.” He further doubled down on that promise by issuing executive orders on his first day in office. But has anyone really asked the question, is that possible? Fossil fuels have lifted humanity from the depths of poverty, the drudgery of manual labor, the edge of starvation and being captive to the whims of nature. The President’s proposals put all of that progress at risk by the idea that renewables can replace fossil fuels and the thousands of products derived from them. Too much of the debate and discussion about energy is rampant with overly simplistic ideas and misinformation. Take a journey through history and discover how fossil fuels touch every aspect of life, making humanity wealthier, healthier, and safer. Will the proposed world of renewable energy be bright or will it usher in a coming dark age?
Publisher: Decisions Consulting, LLC
ISBN: 1639444548
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
IS A NEW DARK AGE COMING? As a candidate, President Biden boldly promised that America “would transition away from the oil and gas industry,” replacing it with “renewable energy over time.” He further doubled down on that promise by issuing executive orders on his first day in office. But has anyone really asked the question, is that possible? Fossil fuels have lifted humanity from the depths of poverty, the drudgery of manual labor, the edge of starvation and being captive to the whims of nature. The President’s proposals put all of that progress at risk by the idea that renewables can replace fossil fuels and the thousands of products derived from them. Too much of the debate and discussion about energy is rampant with overly simplistic ideas and misinformation. Take a journey through history and discover how fossil fuels touch every aspect of life, making humanity wealthier, healthier, and safer. Will the proposed world of renewable energy be bright or will it usher in a coming dark age?
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Age of Resilience
Author: Jeremy Rifkin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250093554
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our species will thrive on an unpredictable Earth. The viruses keep coming, the climate is warming, and the Earth is rewilding. Our human family has no playbook to address the mayhem unfolding around us. If there is a change to reckon with, argues the renowned economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, it’s that we are beginning to realize that the human race never had dominion over the Earth and that nature is far more formidable than we thought, while our species seems much smaller and less significant in the bigger picture of life on Earth, undermining our long-cherished worldview. The Age of Progress, once considered sacrosanct, is on a deathwatch while a powerful new narrative, the Age of Resilience, is ascending. In The Age of Resilience, Rifkin takes us on a new journey beginning with how we reconceptualize time and navigate space. During the Age of Progress, efficiency was the gold standard for organizing time, locking our species into the quest to optimize the expropriation, commodification, and consumption of the Earth’s bounty, at ever-greater speeds and in ever-shrinking time intervals, with the objective of increasing the opulence of human society, but at the expense of the depletion of nature. Space, observes Rifkin, became synonymous with passive natural resources, while a principal role of government and the economy was to manage nature as property. This long adhered to temporal-spatial orientation, writes Rifkin, has taken humanity to the commanding heights as the dominant species on Earth and to the ruin of the natural world. In the emerging era, says Rifkin, efficiency is giving way to adaptivity as the all-encompassing temporal value while space is perceived as animated, self-organizing, and fluid. A younger generation, in turn, is pivoting from growth to flourishing, finance capital to ecological capital, productivity to regenerativity, Gross Domestic Product to Quality of Life Indicators, hyper-consumption to eco-stewardship, globalization to glocalization, geopolitics to biosphere politics, nation-state sovereignty to bioregional governance, and representative democracy to citizen assemblies and distributed peerocracy. Future generations, suggests Rifkin, will likely experience existence less as objects and structures and more as patterns and processes and come to understand that each of us is literally an ecosystem made up of the microorganisms and elements that comprise the hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. The autonomous self of the Age of Progress is giving way to the ecological self of the Age of Resilience. The now worn scientific method that underwrote the Age of Progress is also falling by the wayside, making room for a new approach to science called Complex Adaptive Systems modeling. Likewise, detached reason is losing cachet while empathy and biophilia become the norm. At a moment when the human family is deeply despairing of the future, Rifkin gives us a window into a promising new world and a radically different future that can bring us back into nature’s fold, giving life a second chance to flourish on Earth.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250093554
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our species will thrive on an unpredictable Earth. The viruses keep coming, the climate is warming, and the Earth is rewilding. Our human family has no playbook to address the mayhem unfolding around us. If there is a change to reckon with, argues the renowned economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, it’s that we are beginning to realize that the human race never had dominion over the Earth and that nature is far more formidable than we thought, while our species seems much smaller and less significant in the bigger picture of life on Earth, undermining our long-cherished worldview. The Age of Progress, once considered sacrosanct, is on a deathwatch while a powerful new narrative, the Age of Resilience, is ascending. In The Age of Resilience, Rifkin takes us on a new journey beginning with how we reconceptualize time and navigate space. During the Age of Progress, efficiency was the gold standard for organizing time, locking our species into the quest to optimize the expropriation, commodification, and consumption of the Earth’s bounty, at ever-greater speeds and in ever-shrinking time intervals, with the objective of increasing the opulence of human society, but at the expense of the depletion of nature. Space, observes Rifkin, became synonymous with passive natural resources, while a principal role of government and the economy was to manage nature as property. This long adhered to temporal-spatial orientation, writes Rifkin, has taken humanity to the commanding heights as the dominant species on Earth and to the ruin of the natural world. In the emerging era, says Rifkin, efficiency is giving way to adaptivity as the all-encompassing temporal value while space is perceived as animated, self-organizing, and fluid. A younger generation, in turn, is pivoting from growth to flourishing, finance capital to ecological capital, productivity to regenerativity, Gross Domestic Product to Quality of Life Indicators, hyper-consumption to eco-stewardship, globalization to glocalization, geopolitics to biosphere politics, nation-state sovereignty to bioregional governance, and representative democracy to citizen assemblies and distributed peerocracy. Future generations, suggests Rifkin, will likely experience existence less as objects and structures and more as patterns and processes and come to understand that each of us is literally an ecosystem made up of the microorganisms and elements that comprise the hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. The autonomous self of the Age of Progress is giving way to the ecological self of the Age of Resilience. The now worn scientific method that underwrote the Age of Progress is also falling by the wayside, making room for a new approach to science called Complex Adaptive Systems modeling. Likewise, detached reason is losing cachet while empathy and biophilia become the norm. At a moment when the human family is deeply despairing of the future, Rifkin gives us a window into a promising new world and a radically different future that can bring us back into nature’s fold, giving life a second chance to flourish on Earth.
Coming of Age in the Global Village
Author: Stephen P. Cook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Energy Research and Development and Small Business
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Energy Research and Development and Small Business: how much? How much more from small business? How soon?
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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