Renewable energies : feasibility, time and cost options
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Renewable energies : feasibility, time and cost options
（Renewable energy : research, development and policies series）
Nova Science Publishers, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Inside a decade, the availability of our conventional fuels will be doubtful. It is already late, then, to consider what sources we should develop. The principal requirement in addition to sufficient availability, at an acceptable cost, is that use of New Energy no longer involving injection of pollutants, in particular CO2 into the atmosphere. CH4 is a seldom mentioned danger: it comes increasingly with the rising temperature. This book covers six sources of renewable energy, starting with the popular ones such as solar and wind, but going on to others, waves, tides, hot rock geothermal and hydro. The feasibility in each case is analysed, stressing how the inexhaustible energies are all cheap after the collecting machinery has been paid for. This book focuses on the development of such renewable energies as well as the cost of these various alternatives. The author, Professor John O'M Bockris is a world renowned researcher and the author of many essential texts.
Table of Contents
- Where not to look
- Coal
- Nuclear
- Hydro Resources:
- Japanese Use of Hydro Power
- Summary
- Wind
- 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 Development of Wind Technology
- Effect of Height
- Future of Wind Energy
- Cost of Wind Energy
- Range of Practical Wind Energies Now
- Solar
- 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
- A lost opportunity
- Cost
- Biofuels
- Alcohol from Solar-Grown Plants
- Solar growth of corn as a substitute for sugar
- Other attempts to create CO2 Neutral Ethanol (2006)
- Wave Energy
- Geothermal
- Economics
- Environmental
- Hot rock geothermal
- Australian initiative
- Major difference in cost accounting for renewable and non renewable forms of energy
- Environmental effects of renewables
- Limitations of cost estimates
- Renewable sources of energy: A brief summary
- References.
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