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Renewable energies : feasibility, time and cost options / John O'M. Bockris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bockris, J. O'M. (John O'M.), 1923-2013.
- Series:
- Renewable Energy: Research, Development and Policies
- Renewable energy : research, development and policies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Renewable energy sources.
- Renewable energy sources--Costs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (93 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Renewable Energies' covers six sources of renewable energy, starting with the popular ones such as solar & wind, but going on to others: waves, tides, hot rock geothermal & hydro. The feasibility in each case is analysed, stressing how the inexhaustible energies are all cheap after the collecting machinery is paid for.
- Contents:
- Intro
- RENEWABLE ENERGIES:FEASIBILITY,TIME AND COST OPTIONS
- RENEWABLE ENERGIES: FEASIBILITY, TIME AND COST OPTIONS
- CONTENTS
- WHERE NOT TO LOOK
- COAL
- NUCLEAR
- HYDRO RESOURCES
- JAPANESE USE OF HYDRO POWER
- SUMMARY
- WIND
- INTRODUCTION
- WIND TURBINES
- A BASIC THEORY OF WIND POWER
- WIND BELTS
- THE DISTRIBUTION OF WINDS
- WINDS IN ANTARCTICA
- PATAGONIA
- STORAGE OF WIND ENERGY
- THE US POSITION IN THE DEVELOPMENTOF WIND TECHNOLOGY
- EFFECT OF HEIGHT
- FUTURE OF WIND ENERGY
- COST OF WIND ENERGY
- RANGE OF PRACTICAL WIND ENERGIES NOW
- SOLAR
- PHOTOVOLTAICS
- A NEW APPROACH TO PHOTOVOLTAICS:
- SOLAR THERMAL
- KNOWING MORE ABOUT SOLAR THERMAL
- OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION(OTEC)
- COST OF OTEC
- TWO METHODS OF BUILDING OTEC PLANTS
- LOCATIONS FOR OTEC
- LIMITATIONS OF OTEC PLANTS
- TIDAL ENERGY
- ORIGIN OF TIDAL POWER
- HOW TIDES CAN GIVE MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF ENERGY
- EBB GENERATION
- FLOOD GENERATION
- INTERMITTENCY
- TIDAL PLANTS AT PRESENT IN OPERATION
- TIDAL MAPPING FROM SPACE [45]
- A LOST OPPORTUNITY
- COST
- BIOFUELS
- ALCOHOL FROM SOLAR- GROWN PLANTS
- SOLAR GROWTH OF CORN AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR SUGAR
- OTHER ATTEMPTS TO CREATE CO2NEUTRAL ETHANOL (2007)
- WAVE ENERGY
- GEOTHERMAL
- ECONOMICS
- ENVIRONMENTAL
- HOT ROCK GEOTHERMAL
- AUSTRALIAN INITIATIVE
- MAJOR DIFFERENCES IN COST ACCOUNTINGFOR RENEWABLE AND NON RENEWABLEFORMS OF ENERGY
- ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF RENEWABLES
- LIMITATIONS OF COST ESTIMATES
- RENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY:A BRIEF SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61122-449-7
- OCLC:
- 676895318
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