Power Resources category: 2047 books
Big Coal
Australia's Dirtiest Habit
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A look at the underbelly of an industry whose power continues to soar even as its expansion feeds catastrophic climate change, this work dissects the Australian coal industry’s influence to publicly, and behind closed doors, get its way. The book exposes the myth of clean coal and the taxpayer-funded...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
This smart metering road map summarizes the proposed activities and plans for the Nepal Electricity Authority on the implementation of a smart electricity grid. Prepared under the Power Transmission and Distribution Efficiency Enhancement Project in Nepal, the road map also explains the guiding principles,...
Harvest the Wind
America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Winds sweeping across the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to the declining rural communities of the central United States. Nowhere is wind's promise more...
by Scott Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Waterpower is the largest source of renewable energy in the world today and microhydro is a mature proven technology that can provide clean inexpensive renewable energy with little or no impact on the environment.Serious Microhydro brings you dozens of firsthand stories of energy independence covering...
Photography, Narrative, Time
Imaging our Forensic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Providing a wide-ranging account of the narrative properties of photographs, Greg Battye focuses on the storytelling power of a single image, rather than the sequence. Drawing on ideas from painting, drawing, film, video, and multimedia, he applies contemporary research and theories drawn from cognitive...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
With Middle East blow-ups, pipeline politics, wind farm controversies, solar industry scandals, and disputes over fracking, it's natural to think that the energy policy debate is at its most intense ever. But it's easy to forget that energy issues dominated the nation's politics in the 1970s as well....
Coal
A Human History
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
"Engrossing.... Coal, to borrow a phrase, is king." --New York Times Book Review
In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Prized as "the best stone in Britain" by Roman...
100 Per Cent Renewable
Energy Autonomy in Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The greatest challenge of our time is to build a world based on the sustainable use of renewable power. Our massive dependence on fossil fuels has upset the very climatic system that made human evolution possible. The global economy and its financial system are in jeopardy, running hot on overtly...
Network Economics
Principles - Strategies - Competition Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This textbook on network economics provides essential microeconomic instruments for the analysis of network sectors like telecommunications, transport or energy. Network-specific characteristics emerge both on the cost side and benefit side, requiring network providers to develop innovative entrepreneurial...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
The increasing power of computer technologies, the evolution of software en- neering and the advent of the intelligent transport systems has prompted traf c simulation to become one of the most used approaches for traf c analysis in s- port of the design and evaluation of traf c systems. The ability...
Competitive Electricity Markets
Design, Implementation, Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
After 2 decades, policymakers and regulators agree that electricity market reform, liberalization and privatization remains partly art. Moreover, the international experience suggests that in nearly all cases, initial market reform leads to unintended consequences or introduces new risks, which must...
The Powerhouse
Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
A Soul of a New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology
A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult...
by Gary M. Zatzman
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
"True sustainability" is the line of engineering research and practice that is giving rise to a series of Scrivener textbooks, such as Khan & Islam's best-selling The Greening of Petroleum Operations. Making explicit reference to his own recently-published book in this series, Sustainable...
Solar World
Climate Change and the Green Energy Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
In this Briefing, Dave Elliott establishes the basic sustainable energy options. However his main aim is to look at potential problems ahead in the short, medium and long term, and deal with the counter-arguments. No technology is entirely benign. Renewable energy technologies may have far less impacts...