Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future, 4/e (XE)(Paperback)

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.

Description

The only renewable energy text to strike the perfect balance between depth and breadth of knowledge, making it ideal for students seeking an introduction to the subject, whatever their programme of study.

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.

提供可持續能源供應以應對不斷擴大且日益生產力增加的世界，是當今文明面臨的主要問題之一。《可再生能源》探討可再生能源來源在實際和經濟潛力方面應對這一挑戰的能力。本書解釋了從直接太陽能（太陽熱和光伏）、間接太陽能（生物質、水力、風力和波浪）以及非太陽能（潮汐和地熱）能源中獲取能量的基本物理和技術原理，並在其環境影響、經濟和未來前景的背景下進行了解釋。

《描述》

這是唯一一本在知識深度和廣度之間取得完美平衡的可再生能源教材，非常適合尋求介紹這一主題的學生，無論他們的學習計劃是什麼。

本書提供了對利用各種“可再生能源”技術的相對優勢和進展狀況的觀點和細節。分析考慮了排放、可持續性、成本影響和能源安全等因素，因為政治和經濟壓力將社會推向低碳未來。

Table of contents

1. Introducing Renewable Energy
2. Thermodynamics and Heat Pumps
3. Solar Thermal Energy
4. Solar Photovoltaics
5. Bioenergy
6. Hydroelectricity
7. Tidal Power
8. Wind Energy
9. Wave Energy
10. Geothermal Energy
11. Integrating Renewable Energy
12. Renewable Energy Futures

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目錄

1. 介紹可再生能源


2. 熱力學和熱泵


3. 太陽熱能


4. 太陽能光伏


5. 生物能源


6. 水力發電


7. 潮汐能


8. 風能


9. 波浪能


10. 地熱能


11. 可再生能源整合


12. 可再生能源未來