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Renewable energy : cleaner, fairer ways to power the planet / Danny Chivers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chivers, Danny, author.
- Series:
- No-nonsense guides (New Internationalist Publications (Firm))
- No-nonsense guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Renewable energy sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (136 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : New Internationalist, 2015.
- Summary:
- Explains solar, wind, hydro, wave, geothermal and other technologies, and how to break the barriers to a 100 percent renewable world.
- Contents:
- Intro
- About the Author
- About the New Internationalist
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. Solar power
- Electricity from the sun: photovoltaic
- CSP
- Solar water heating
- Passive solar heating, cooking and lighting
- History and current use worldwide
- Costs, risks and drawbacks
- 2. Wind power
- How wind turbines work
- A history of wind power
- Puff and nonsense: myths about wind energy
- 3. Hydroelectric power
- Types of hydropower
- Future flows
- 4. Heat from earth, air and water
- Geothermal power
- Ground-, air- and water-source heat pumps
- A history of hot springs and heat pumps
- 5. Wave and tidal power
- Types of wave and tidal power
- A history of wave and tidal power
- Current use worldwide
- 6. Fuel crops
- Types: biomass, ethanol, biodiesel and liquid biofuel
- Where does it all come from?
- Can't see the trees for the wood
- 7. Energy from 'waste'
- Why is waste renewable?
- Anaerobic digestion and waste cooking oil
- Gas from water treatment and landfill
- 8. Renewables versus fossil fuels
- Energy payback from renewables
- Environmental impacts
- Financial costs of renewables
- Adding up global power from renewables
- How much could existing technology provide?
- 9. How much energy do we need?
- Living like a European
- Defining the good life
- 10. A 100-per-cent renewable world?
- The right energy…
- …in the right place at the right time
- Will we be able to fly?
- Building the future: how much material will we need?
- A big fat warning.
- 11. Whose renewable future?
- A renewables revolution?
- What are we up against?
- Who has power over power?
- 12. Making it happen
- What you can do
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78026-244-2
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