Green Energy: Technology, Economics and Policy

ISBN-13: 9780367383695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 364 str.

U. Aswathanarayana; Tulsidas Harikrishnan; Thayyib S. Kadher-Mohien

Opis

Renewable fuels, such as wind, solar, biomass, tides, and geothermal, are inexhaustible, indigenous, and often free. They need to be captured efficiently and transformed into electricity, hydrogen or clean transportation fuels to provide the energy of the future. This book addresses how to approach and apply technology, economics, and policy to bring down the costs involved with renewables, the ost important challenge faced in the green era. The book is an ideal resource or students and professionals in energy and environmental engineering and in conomic fields focusing on green energy.

Spis treści

I. Introduction;
II. Renewable energy technologies;
III. Supply-side energy technologies;
IV. Demand-side energy technologies;
V. Making green energy competitive;
VI. A green new deal;
VII. Overview and integration

O autorze

U. Aswathanarayana (General Editor) has teaching, R.&D., and institutional capacity building experience in many countries. That he is indeed a polymath is evidenced by his ten, highly-acclaimed, internationally published books (most of them through A.A. Balkema of the Taylor & Francis Group) on topics as diverse as Nuclear Geology, Geoenvironment, Food and Water Security and now, Green Energy. He is the recipient of the Excellence in Geophysical Education (2005) and International (2007) Awards of the American Geophysical Union, Certificate of Recognition (2007) of the International Association of GeoChemistry, and Eminent Citizen Award in the area of water sciences (2007) of Sivananda Trust, India.

T. Harikrishnan (Editor of Section 3) served as a senior officer in the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, and is presently employed as Nuclear Technology specialist in IAEA, Vienna.

Thayyib S. Kadher-Mohien (Editor of Section 6) works in the Department of Nuclear Energy, IAEA. He is also associated with the University of Vienna, and Universitat Jaume 1, Spain.