Renewable energy in the countryside / Peter Prag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prag, Peter A. B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renewable energy sources--Great Britain.

Renewable energy sources.

Energy policy--Great Britain.

Energy policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Climate change has become a major international issue and the British Government is committed to meeting ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the present decade and beyond. Much of this will rely on an increasing use of renewable energy. Within current technology this will depend almost exclusively upon the use of rural land, whether for wind turbines, for growing biomass and biofuels or for the production of biogas. Renewable energy is therefore of immediate interest to farmers and landowners and to their advisers, such as surveyors, lawyers, accountants and banke

Contents:

Introduction

Incentives, returns, and rewards

Wind turbines

Solar power

Biomass

Biogas

Biofuels

Earth and water

Emissions saving

Future imperfect.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-24393-3

1-283-70832-9

0-203-10328-9

1-136-24394-1

9780203103289

OCLC:

817888746