Renewable Energy: Sources For Fuels And Electricity.
Language: English
Published by Island Press, 1992
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Washinton, DC: Island Press, 1993. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 1160 pp.- Written and edited by the world's leading experts, "Renewable Energy" is the most comprehensive reference work on alternative energy ever published. Overall performance, cost, market potential, and environmental impact are assessed for fuels and electricity derived from hydroelectric, wind, photovoltaics, solar-thermal, geothermal, ocean, and biomass energy sources. In addition, practical and specific recommendations for promoting the adoption of renewables on a broad scale and presented and analyzed. Library stamps. English text. Condition : very good. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9781559631396. Keywords : .
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- Title
- Renewable Energy: Sources For Fuels And Electricity.
- Author
- Kelly, Henry
- Publisher
- Island Press
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- very good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1559631392
- ISBN 13
- 9781559631396
This book offers a cutting-edge review of the prospects for renewable energy. Overall performance, cost, market potential, and environmental impact are assessed for fuels and electricity derived from hydroelectric, wind, photovoltaics, solar-thermal, geothermal, ocean and biomass energy sources. In addition, policies for adopting renewables on a broad scale are provided.
This book will serve as an essential reference tool for policymakers, industrial leaders, economists, scientists, and environmentalists who are concerned with matters of energy, the environment, and development.
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About the Author
Martin Green is a successful author of a range of hairdressing texts, a practicing hairdresser, has worked as a college lecturer and regional verifier for City & Guilds and is a co-founder of Assessment Direct.
Jose Goldemberg
Roger Price taught at the University of East Anglia, 1968 93, eventually becoming Professor of European History. In 1993 he moved to Aberystwyth as Professor of History. His many other books include The French Second Republic: A Social History (1972), Revolution and Reaction: 1848 and the French Second Republic (1975), The Modernisation of Rural France: Communication Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France (1983), A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987), The Revolutions of 1848 (1988) and A Concise History of France (1993).
Jeremy Woods is a Research Fellow at Imperial College's Centre for Environmental Policy and Technology.
Michael Geyer has a PhD from the Albert Ludwigs Universitat Freiburg and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. He taught at the University of Michigan and as visiting professor in Bochum and Leipzig. He is most recently the author (with Konrad Jarausch) of Shattered Past; of Reconstructing German History; and of a forthcoming book (with Michel Espagne and Matthias Middell) titled European History in an Interconnected World. He has published extensively on the German military, war, and genocide as well as on resistance, terror, and religion. His current work focuses on defeat, nationalism, and self-destruction. He has been a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Humboldt Forschungspreis.
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