Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future 3rd Edition by Godfrey Boyle describes all principal sources of renewable energy currently being exploited. The interdisciplinary approach considers economic, social, environmental and policy issues. Detailed color illustrations, together with tables of data, support comprehensive analysis of the relevant disciplines.
New to this edition are updated treatment of integration of renewables into existing energy systems, updated throughout to reflect new data, advances in technology and new developments around the world. This book reflects increased appreciation of the economic, social and environmental impact of renewables.
End-of-chapter summaries consolidate information with expanded appendices on unit conversions and costing analysis. The provision of sustainable energy supplies for an expanding and increasingly productive world is one of the major issues facing civilisation today. Renewable Energy 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.
This book provides both perspective and detail on the relative merits and state of progress of technologies for utilizing the various 'renewables'. The analysis considers emissions, sustainability, cost implications and energy security, as political and economic pressures move society towards a low-carbon future.
From an overview of basic energy conversion processes, through a discussion of the individual renewable sources, to a concluding examination of the prospects for their integration into national and international networks, this book provides a valuable insight into prospects for the renewables.
It is readily accessible to readers with a wide range of interests and abilities because the complex scientific explanations are presented separately from the main text ... the authors have presented the questions that must be considered. The book contains a wealth of information and is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in renewable energy technologies and their possible role in our future.
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