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This initial volume in the SAGE Series on Green Society provides an overview of the social and environmental dimensions of our energy system, and the key organizations, policy tools, and technologies that can help shape a green-energy economy. Each entry draws on scholarship from across numerous social sciences, natural and physical sciences, and engineering. The urgency of climate change underscores the importance of getting the right technologies, policies and incentives, and social checks-and...

The Title "Product Engineering Eco-Design, Technologies and Green Energy" is written by Thomas Roche . This book was published in the year 2005. The ISBN number 1402029322|9781402029325 is assigned to the Hardback version of this title. The book displayed here is a 1st Edition edition. This book has total of pp. xiv + 539 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Springer . We have about 98376 other great books from this publisher. Product Engineering Eco-Design, Technologies and Green Energy is currently...

This book presents the compelling business case for green and energy-efficient retrofits by detailing the specific decision points and technologies from planning to investing to operations. It explains office retrofits from numerous perspectives, including architecture, engineering, interior design, feasibility and facilities planning, construction, finance, leasing, and operation. Case studies on the retrofits of corporate headquarters, multi-tenant buildings, and leased space provide insights,...

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by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Bill Committee

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 such as wind farms may have far less impacts than the global impact of fossil-fuelled plants, but they do have some local impacts. How do we trade off local and global impacts? The author looks at the UK wind farm issue and...

Using renewable fuels and materials, drinking clean water and food, and breathing safe air are major issues for a sustainable world. This book reviews biodiesel production from microalgae, a promising energy source that does not compete with food production. Several advanced techniques to clean polluted waters, such as electrochemistry, ferrites photocatalysis and low-cost filtration are presented. Chapters also show various living organisms used as bioindicators of toxic metals. Decreasing ecotoxicity...

Author: David Johnston & Scott Gibson. Pages: 336. Photographs: 256 photographsA thorough, informative, and up-to-date reference on green, sustainable and energy-efficient home construction that clarifies definitions of ?green? and ?sustainable? and guides builders and architects through the process of new or remodel green construction, including issues of site, landscaping, durability, and energy-efficiency. It starts with clear explanations of the concepts and fundamentals of green, healthy...

Description How Green Are My Wellies? Small Steps and Giant Leaps to Green Living With Style is Anna Shepard's guide to ethical living written especially for women everywhere. It tackles the issues of ethical clothes shopping and how to keep the glamour while going green. Being seen while being green How Green Are My Wellies? documents Anna Shepard's journey to a green lifestyle over a year. Month by month she details each of her new forays into getting ethical and environmental. She explores...

A reference on green, sustainable and energy-efficient home construction. Starting with explanations of the concepts and fundamentals of green, healthy and energy-efficient construction, it takes readers through the construction process, offering expert advice at various decision points.

Green living begins at home, and New Green Home Solutions tells you how. Most of the energy-derived pollution we produce comes as a direct result of our homes - how we heat them, how we cool them, how we keep them well lit and full of things that make our lives so comfortable. The good news is that we have tremendous power to create change. Renewable energy design, better insulation, and more efficient appliances could reduce energy demands by 60 to 80 percent. By embracing conservation and renewable...

Renewable fuels, such as wind, solar, biomass, tides, and geothermal, are inexhaustible, indigenous and are 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 most important challenge faced in the green era. It is intended for students and professionals in resources...

Description Shades of Green - A (mostly) practical A-Z for the reluctant environmentalist, is your invaluable guide to becoming an ethical consumer. Paul Waddington's A to Z of environmental living takes the hassle out of making good and practical decisions about holidays, shopping, household products and food. Shades of Green is a humorous and at the same time informative consumer guide for the 'reluctant environmentalist', because being green has never been black or white. An A-Z of how to be...

A riveting look at how an alternative source of energy is revoluntionising nuclear power, promising a safe and clean future for millions, and why thorium was sidelined at the height of the Cold War In this groundbreaking account of an energy revolution in the making, award-winning science writer Richard Martin introduces us to thorium, a radioactive element and alternative nuclear fuel that is far safer, cleaner, and more abundant than uranium. At the dawn of the Atomic Age, thorium and uranium seemed...

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This book contains an edited version of the lectures and selected contributions presented during the Advanced Summer Institute on "Product Engineering: Eco-Design, Technologies and Green Energy" organized at the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, July 14-21, 2004. In the last few decades Product Engineering has become a multidisciplinary field including aspects from a wide range of scientific areas. Aspects related to eco-design, aesthetic style, human factors and ergonomics are now critical...

The energy crisis is one of the most pressing and significant problems the world has to face. With limited resources of fossil fuels left, and the additional political and environmental issues that surround their use, it is clear that life on earth cannot continue as it is without the development of alternative sources of power. In Britain, many are rightly wary of expanding the nuclear energy programme. The UK Government's policy of support for wind energy and its attempts to achieve 20% electricity...

Humans have harnessed wind power for centuries. It is the fastest growing source of energy in the world, and by the year 2020 it is projected to supply at least 12 per cent of global electrical demand. This book provides a clear understanding of wind and wind energy systems. It examines all aspects of small-scale installations including: Site assessment and economics; Turbines; Towers and tower installation; Batteries and charge controllers; Inverters; Costs and financial incentives; and, Zoning...

This initial volume in the SAGE Series on Green Society provides an overview of the social and environmental dimensions of our energy system, and the key organizations, policy tools, and technologies that can help shape a green-energy economy. Each entry draws on scholarship from across numerous social sciences, natural and physical sciences, and engineering. The urgency of climate change underscores the importance of getting the right technologies, policies and incentives, and social checks-and...

Exploring and understanding architecture and sustainability DETAIL kids A green home for Sophie and Henry begins at a primary school age. It aims to give children an awareness of the dual issues of energy and environmental protection and how they are closely related to architecture and construction. Because even today, the construction and maintenance of buildings comprises around 40% of total energy consumption. It contributes to an optimistic vision of the future while raising society's awareness...

Between the Third Biomass Conference of the Americas and this one, two conferences of the parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) occurred. In December of 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, COP3 established a list of mainly industrialized countries committed to a range of greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions by 2008 to 2010. These countries included all 29 countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The Inter-governmental Panel...

The author of "Gusher of Lies" examines the hard facts of supply and demand to underscore the vast quantities of power we need, and how little of that horsepower can come from 'renewable' sources - and then shows that the US has vast resources at hand, if only it dares muster the political will needed to tap them. The popular appeal of 'green jobs' and a 'green collar economy' based on a 'clean energy future' is obvious. But the sober reality is that it has taken the U.S. more than a century to build...

Whole Life Costing (WLC) needs to become a tool in the design process: that is the argument of this new title by Ian Ellingham and William Fawcett. For too long WLC has been misunderstood, considered too complicated for designers to undertake on a readily practical basis. But techniques are changing, and Whole Life Sustainability presents a selection of simple analytical tools that architects can use to arm themselves with confident and qualitative justifications for making sustainable decisions...

Building energy-efficient, ecologically benign and sustainable buildings is complex since it comprises of a set of interdependent factors influenced by little-understood science. Buildings are all too often ‘greenwashed’ with eco-bling, which is at best unnecessary and at worst counterproductive and ecologically damaging. This book exposes the pitfalls of such greenwashing in an immediate, visually-arresting and authoritative manner. Its central message is that eco-bling should be ditched in favour...

A focuses exploration of the role nanotechnology plays in meeting the challenges inherent in minimizing environmental impacts while maximizing energy resources, this book provides an overview of our energy supply, increasing energy production while reducing cost, and offering novel energy sources. It explores the ways in which nanotechnologies can improve structural engineering of energy sources, create novel methods of cooling, and inspire new approaches to water supply and treatment. In addressing...

By depoliticizing the energy-climate debate the authors succeed in exposing corrupt political thinking and 'green' myth-making about issues that affect every one of us. Today, energy is the most important commodity in the world. Yet our basic energy security is threatened by an ideological social agenda driven more by myth than reality. Energy and Climate Wars exposes the energy and climate myths that are driving today's public debate, from the West's war on carbon to the concept of peak oil and...

The Environmental Design Pocketbook places the information you need for sustainable, low-energy building design at your fingertips. Packed with diagrams, tools, and tips, it cuts through the complex mass of technical data and legislation that faces the designer, and distils all the key guidance into a single reference that is quick and easy to use. Pointing to the facts, figures, and performance data that are most important, it includes: Succinct guidance on all core sustainability topics Concise...

Green will illustrate and shed new light on the gamut of issues associated with renewable energy, a topic whose importance increases exponentially with every temperature record-setting year. Jane and Michael Hoffman use their years of experience to explain the technological and economic future of this ecologically significant issue. They incisively explain its politics: what countries are doing right now and, most importantly, what we should be doing. Green will cut through the hype and polemics...

It is no secret that the United States' dependence on oil-mostly foreign-puts the country in a precarious position. The United States needs innovative ways not only to power millions of automobiles on its highways but also to secure sustainable sources of fuel for the future. This book presents the latest facts and figures about alternative energy to any physicist, engineer, policymaker, or concerned citizen who needs a reliable source of information on the nation's looming energy crisis. Philip...

by Ghaffar Ali , Dr. Vilas Nitivattananon , Dr. Ranjith Perera

Publisher: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

"Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems" provides a practical introduction to the application of soft computing techniques and hybrid intelligent systems for designing, modeling, characterizing, optimizing, forecasting, and performance prediction of green and renewable energy systems. Research is proceeding at jet speed on renewable energy (energy derived from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, tides, rain, geothermal heat, biomass, hydrogen, etc.) as policy makers, researchers...