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Achilleas Papagiannis | Enri Toska | Aggeliki Mihale | Katerina Mitrakouli | Eleni Bliatsou | Apostolis Mitsikostas | Nikolaos-Marios Nanis | Georgios Ziogas | panagiotis Gitsas

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Introduction to Renewable Energy (Energy and the Environment)

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Introduction to Renewable Energy (Energy and the Environment)

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As the world population grows and places more demand on limited fossil fuels, renewable energy becomes more relevant as part of the solution to the impending energy dilemma. Renewable energy is now included in national policies, with goals for it to be a significant percentage of generated energy within the coming decades. A comprehensive overview, Introduction to Renewable Energy explores how we can use the sun, wind, biomass, geothermal resources, and water to generate more sustainable energy.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book integrates economic, social, environmental, policy, and engineering issues related to renewable energy. It explains the fundamentals of energy, including the transfer of energy, as well as the limitations of natural resources. Starting with solar power, the text illustrates how energy from the sun is transferred and stored; used for heating, cooling, and lighting; collected and concentrated; and converted into electricity.

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Renewable Energy: Sustainable Energy Concepts for the Energy Change 

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Renewable Energy: Sustainable Energy Concepts for the Energy Change 

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In the years since the publication of the first edition of this book, the world has undergone drastic changes in terms of energy sources. This is reflected in the expansion of this second edition from 20 to 26 chapters. The most dramatic occurrence was the Tsunami which struck Japan in March of 2011 and set off a reactor catastrophe at the nuclear power plants in Fukushima. On the other hand fossil fuel technology drives the climate change to a threatening level. So, renewable energy sources are essential for the 21st century. The increasing number of wind power plants, solar collectors and photovoltaic installations demonstrates perceptibly that many innovations for tapping renewable energy sources have matured: very few other technologies have developed so dynamically in the past years.

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Renewable energy has great significance for the world’s future, given the environmental issues related to energy generation and energy’s importance in our society. Making wise energy choices is not easy, however. It involves balanced consideration of economic, environmental, technical, political, and other perspectives to weigh the relative costs and benefits for a host of possible technologies. Renewable Energy: A First Course is an accessible textbook for science and engineering students who want a well-balanced introduction to the science, technologies, economics, and policies related to energy choices.

How Does Renewable Energy Work? Science, Technologies, Economics, and Key Policy Issues

The book delves into all forms of renewable energy, from biofuels and geothermal energy to wind, hydro, and solar power. It also discusses nuclear power and fossil fuels, allowing readers to compare and evaluate the advantages and shortcomings of renewable energy. In addition, the book explores four overarching topics that go beyond a specific type of energy, namely, energy conservation, energy storage, energy transmission, and energy policy, and examines the important issue of climate change.

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Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy

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Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy

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Science writer Jeremy Shere shows us in Renewable: The World-Changing Powerof Alternative Energy that energy is anything but magical. Producing it in fossil fuel form is a dirty, expensive?but also hugely profitable? enterprise, with enormous but largely hidden costs to the entire planet. The cold, hard fact is that at some point we will have wrung the planet dry of easily accessible sources of fossil fuel. And when that time comes, humankind will have no choice but to turn?or, more accurately, return?to other, cleaner, renewable energy sources. What will those sources be? How far have we come to realizing the technologies that will make these sources available?

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Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future

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Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future

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The provision of sustainable energy supplies for an expanding and increasingly productive world is one of the major issues facing civilization today. Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future, Third Edition, examines both the practical and economic potential of the renewable energy sources to meet this challenge.

The underlying physical and technological principles behind deriving power from direct solar (solar thermal and photovoltaics), indirect solar (biomass, hydro, wind, and wave) and non-solar (tidal and geothermal) energy sources are explained, within the context of their environmental impacts, their economics, and their future prospects.

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Auhor: Γελεγένης, Ι. Ι.
Publisher: Σύγχρονη Εκδοτική
Release date: 2005
Pages: 383
Description: This book aims to provide basic knowledge for various energy sources that relate to technological issues, but also market issues, fuel handling and competency inventories. It helps to understand the energy balance at national level, but also at the enterprise level and in comparative assessment of energy sources available, covering with equal weight for both conventional and renewable.

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Auhor: Μοσχάτος, Ανδρέας
Publisher: Δίαυλος
Release date: 2013/11
Pages: 378
Description: This book discusses all primary energy sources, namely coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear energy, hydropower, biomass, wind energy, solar energy, geothermal energy, and marine energy, i.e. the tidal, wave energy, the energy of marine currents, marine thermal and osmotic energy. It is addressed to scientists, engineers, students and any interested person who wishes to obtain an overview on the topic of energy and its impact on culture and the environment.

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Auhor: Woodford Chris
Publisher: Σαββάλας
Releasedate: 2005
Pages: 96
Description: The series "Evolution of science and technology" explores step by step the scientific and technological achievements that have changed our world and our way of life. It also shows pioneer inventors and scientists to whom  owed  all them. With simple examples, diagrams and photos with pleasing manner introduces us to the world of science and technology, starting from the distant past to the present and giving a first taste of what is to follow.