Power Resources category: 2047 books
by Patricia Egede
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
This monograph adresses the challenge of the environmental assessment of leightweight electric vehicles. It poses the question whether the use of lightweight materials in electric vehicles can reduce the vehicles’ environmental impact and compares the environmental performance of a lightweight...
by Jeff T. Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
From the late-1960’s, perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSAs) ionomers have dominated the PEM fuel cell industry as the membrane material of choice. The “gold standard’ amongst the many variations that exist today has been, and to a great extent still is, DuPont’s Nafion® family of materials. However,...
Great Savings With Water Powered Cars
Learn How To Convert Your Vehicle To A Water Fuel Car And Drive Around Using Water As Car Fuel And Increase Mileage, Save Fuel, Save Money And Save The Planet All At The Same Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Can you really make your car run on water? The answer is YES, ABSOLUTELY because fuel energy can be extracted from water when used as an add-on to gasoline or diesel fuel.
A car that can run on water is commonly believed to be a thing out of science fiction and that anyone selling it on...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This is the first book to offer a complete spectrum of the role that operations research has played and can play in the improvement of North American freight railroads. It explores how decisions are made at railroads, contains examples of the mathematical programming formulations to the complex problems,...
by Jordan Lofthouse, Megan Hansen, Ryan M. Yonk
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Climate change, energy generation and use, and environmental degradation are among the most salient—and controversial—political issues today. Our country's energy future will be determined by the policymakers who enact laws that favor certain kinds of energy production while discouraging others...
When Trucks Stop Running
Energy and the Future of Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices of oil. Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone of civilization, hauling the goods that fulfill our every need and desire. Their powerful, highly-efficient...
Energy Unlimited
Four Steps to 100% Renewable Energy
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
HAVE YOU been tasked with developing a plan to transition your organisation to 100% renewable energy but need more information to make this project a success?
DO YOU want to reduce or eliminate fossil fuels in your organisation but need to build a business case to get executives on board?
ARE...
Energy for Rural and Island Communities
Proceedings of the Conference, Held in Inverness, Scotland, 22-24 September 1980
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Energy for Rural and Island Communities covers the proceedings of the conference held in Inverness, Scotland on September 22-24, 1980, which aims to gather several professionals concerned with energy supplies for island and rural communities in the 1980s.
The papers in this collection are divided...
International Mineral Economics
Mineral Exploration, Mine Valuation, Mineral Markets, International Mineral Policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
International Mineral Economics provides an integrated overview of the concepts important for mineral exploration, mine valuation, mineral market analysis, and international mineral policies. The treatment is interdisciplinary, drawing on the fields of economics, geology, business, and mining engineering....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Biomass Supply Chains for Bioenergy and Biorefining highlights the emergence of energy generation through the use of biomass and the ways it is becoming more widely used. The supply chains that produce the feedstocks, harvest, transport, store, and prepare them for combustion or refinement into other...
by A. Midttun
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2001
Since the European Union's de-regulation policy for electricity and energy suppliers was implemented, new strategic configurations have emerged. Traditional restraints of geographical limitations on energy companies have been partly removed: the diversity at national regulatory and company level means...
Developing the Global Bioeconomy
Technical, Market, and Environmental Lessons from Bioenergy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Developing the Global Bioeconomy: Technical, Market, and Environmental Lessons from Bioenergy brings together expertise from three IEA-Bioenergy subtasks on pyrolysis, international trade, and biorefineries to review the bioenergy sector and draw useful lessons for the full deployment of the bioeconomy.
Despite...
Electrical Transmission Systems and Smart Grids
Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Electric transmission networks are among the largest human-made engineering systems: For example, the transmission network in the United States covers over 300,000 km of lines and is served by 500 companies (electric utilities). In sharp contrast to the very incremental developments of the last century,...