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Alternative Energy Sources (Green Energy and Technology) by Efstathios E. (Stathis) Michaelides (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Annotation Alternative Energy Sources is designed to give the reader, a clear view of the role each form of alternative energy may play in supplying the energy needs of the human society in the near future (20-50 years). The two first chapters on "energy demand and supply" and "environmental effects," set the tone as to why alternative energy is essential for the future. The third chapter gives the laws of energy conversion processes, as well as the limitations of converting one energy form to another. The section on exergy gives a quantitative background on the capability/potential of each energy source to produce power. The fourth, fifth and sixth chapters are expositions of fission and fusion nuclear energy, the power plants that may produce power from these sources and the issues that will frame the public debate on nuclear energy. The following five chapters include descriptions of the most common renewable energy sources (wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, hydroelectric) some of the less common sources (e.g. tidal and wave energy). The emphasis of these chapters will be on the global potential of each source, the engineering/technical systems that are used in harnessing the po

Who reads Alternative Energy Sources (Green Energy and Technology)?

Author

Efstathios E. (Stathis) Michaelides (auth.)

Publisher

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9783642439070

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Engineering