Wind, Water and Fire: The Other Renewable Energy Resources: 7 (WORLD SCIENTIFIC SERIES IN CURRENT ENERGY ISSUES) - Hardcover

Gerard M Crawley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9811225915 ISBN 13: 9789811225918

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co, 2021

Synopsis

This volume focuses on a few renewable energy sources, viz. wind energy plus energy from water movement and natural temperature differences that in principle could provide enormous energy resources. Energy from wind has been a rapidly growing source of energy as wind turbines have grown in size and especially as wind turbines have moved offshore. Hydroelectric dams have continued to be used as energy sources particularly in developing countries. Other energy sources using water, including waves and tidal sources, are also discussed in this volume. Finally, the volume discusses differences between deep and surface ocean temperatures plus the extraction of energy from the earth's extremely large energy resource of magma deep below the surface. These latter two energy resources in particular require further development and the current book describes the latest advances coupled with pointing possible paths forward.

About this title

About the Author

Gerard ""Gary"" Crawley is the President of Marcus Enterprises LLC based in North Carolina and Professor and Dean Emeritus of the University of South Carolina, USA. Previously, Professor Crawley served as the Director of the Frontiers Engineering and Science Directorate of Science Foundation Ireland from 2004–2007. Prior to this, Professor Crawley served as the Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at the University of South Carolina from 1998 to 2004. At Michigan State University, he was Dean of the Graduate School from 1994–1998 and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 1988–1994. Professor Crawley served two terms at the US National Science Foundation, one as the Director of the Physics Division, 1987–88, and earlier as a Program Officer in the Nuclear Physics Program. He has also served as the Chair of the Nuclear Physics Division of the American Physical Society in 1991–1992. Dr Crawley obtained his PhD in Physics from Princeton University in 1965. He is the author of over 150 articles in refereed journals and wrote the textbook, Energy, published in 1975. He is also the editor of the World Scientific Handbook of Energy, published in February 2013. Currently, Professor Crawley is the series editor of the World Scientific Series on Current Energy Issues. He is also the co-author of The Grant Writers Handbook, which was published by Imperial College Press in 2015. He has previously consulted for the National Research Foundation of the UAE (2008–2011) and the National Center for Science and Technical Evaluation, Republic of Kazakhstan from 2008–2012.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811225915
• ISBN 13: 9789811225918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350