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Renewable Energy and Climate Change

Renewable Energy and Climate Change

This dazzling introductory textbook encompasses the full range of today's important renewable energy technologies. Solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind, hydro, biomass and geothermal energy receive balanced treatment with one exciting and informative chapter devoted to each. As well as a complete overview of these state-of-the-art technologies, the chapters provide: clear analysis on their development potentials; an evaluation of the economic aspects involved; concrete guidance for practical impl
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Renewable Energy and Climate Change

Your Questions About Sustainable Energy For All

Sandra asks…

Governments and industries are really concerned to work towards sustainability ?

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It is not enough that we merely switch energy sources or technologies, while maintaining an economic structure based on growth. Industrial mass production and global monoculture , no matter the system of government managing them, are antithetical to sustainability.

Overall, a sustainable economy requires that we drastically downscale and relocalize production, consumption and trade to the human level.

They make a lot of propaganda about new sustainable energy projects but how far does this environmental concern ?

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admin answers:

Good luck with that, you’ll need it.

If all economies drastically down scaled, all governments lose all their taxes. Won’t ever happen, governments exist in order to create more bloated government.

Helen asks…

Should we have listened to Jimmy Carter and tried to lessen our dependence of oil and move toward more?

sustainable energy sources in the 1970’s?

Carter started and ethanol program which Reagan promptly stopped after Carter’s defeat. Reagan, to make a statement about which direction we would go, removed the solar panels from the White House roof when elected.

More intelligent societies like German who refuse to be lead my the nose by their corporate masters are light years ahead of us in solar technology.

If we don’t wake up, we will be using solar and wind technology purchased from the Chinese.

Most Americans aren’t smart enough to realize that we are sacrificing our future, our economy and our environment for the sake of oil companies.

admin answers:

Ethanol costs more than twice what gasoline does and causes food prices to rise because there being depleted for fuel. What we should do is tap our own vast resources of oil which is several times that of the middle east. Solar panels are a joke at best they are a supplemental energy source.

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Renewable Energy Resources

Renewable Energy Resources

Renewable Energy Resources is a numerate and quantitative text covering the full range of renewable energy technologies and their implementation worldwide. Energy supplies from renewables (such as from biofuels, solar heat, photovoltaics, wind, hydro, wave, tidal, geothermal, and ocean-thermal) are essential components of every nation’s energy strategy, not least because of concerns for the local and global environment, for energy security and for sustainability. Thus in the years between the
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Your Questions About Renewable Energy

Daniel asks…

How could I get an insight into renewable energy, with possibly a summer internship?

I’m 16, and will be 17 by the summer, I’m still in Secondary school and I would really like to get some sort of insight into renewable energy over the summer, as I would like to persue a career in that field. I live in Ayr in Scotland, so it would have to be near there possibly out to glasgow. I’ve no idea how to go about it, and I don’t know what company I could go to either. The company I could think of is EDF Energy. I thought of maybe writing an email and asking if I could come in and maybe help out, getting coffee etc. Any help would be great!

admin answers:

Hi Alice. Not being from Scotland, or the UK, I would offer two suggestions. First, get a subscription to a magazine called, “Home Power.” We started reading it 13 years ago, and 12 years ago we went to one of the energy fairs listed in the magazine. Today our home is powered by the wind and sun, and we teach solar power seminars at the local schools, and host field trips to our home for the kids regularly. You interest is a bit deeper than just setting up some panels, and that’s great. Any possibility of finding your way into an internship would pretty much require you have some expertise in the area, not schooling, just better than basic understanding. Starting with that magazine is a great first step. In the back is a calander section that lists happenings, such as fairs.

There is a really big fair each year in Aberdeen each May, I don’t know if you can work out a trip there, but the great thing about a fair is you can learn a lot quickly, and meet just about anyone worth meeting if you want to get involved somehow. The fair we went to had the entire editing staff for that magazine in one booth, and since then I’ve contributed a couple articles for them they have published. There might be other fairs closer to your home, but I’ve clipped the website to the group hosting the Aberdeen one below for you. Try googling, “Energy Fairs in Scotland.”

Any up and coming technology or business is always looking for someone like yourself, who is interested in the technology or work, has energy and some knowledge, and wants to help. The job facing you is just connecting with the right people. An energy fair is the best place to go if you can get to one and have an interest in working in renewable energy. The second link is for a listing service that have some energy fairs listed in Scotland, worth looking into in your case. It’s a great field Alice, and I encourage you to get involved any way you can. Start by learning all you can about the technology. Take care, Rudydoo

David asks…

What are the effects of renewable energy used in 3rd world business?

For a graduate project in Asia, I am looking at renewable energy and its effects on growing businesses. I want to look at developed and developing businesses that use renewable energy. Can anyone point me in the right direction with regards to finding areas in Asia to research? I wanted to stick with 3rd world.

admin answers:

The best renewable energy is oil & gas. Our plants recycle Co2 into oil & gas.So we will never run out of oil.

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Hydropower Renewable Energy Science Kit

Hydropower Renewable Energy Science Kit

Explore the power of water by building models and conducting experiments. Build a waterwheel, a sawmill, and a hammer mill to harness the energy from water to do physical work. Learn about water pressure with a water tower, communicating vessels, and a fountain. Generate electricity with a hydroelectric power station. Discover how we can generate electricity by harnessing water power from ocean waves, tides, and rivers.
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Your Questions About Renewable Energy Certificates

William asks…

I have a lot of inventive ideas but no money to build a prototype, is there any company/person that can help?

I have all these inventive ideas from renewable energy to engine modifications, but my down fall is finding the right people to work with to bring this ideas to fruition. I don’t have the money to paten it let alone building a prototype. I need a reputable company or an honest individual that wouldn’t take my ideas and dump me. I have attained certificates in Electrical Engineering and Automotive Engineering and in merging these acquired knowledge I ‘ve come up with a lot of ways to make waves in the engineering department. With a couple of belts, gears and shafts a lot of modifications can be made to change the operational features of an engine. So if there is any company that you know of or any individual that would like to get into partnership with me, please contact me via email.

admin answers:

Darlin’, please be careful, there are a lot of sharks in those waters.
Write your idea down send it off in a certified letter to yourself and then hang on to it in case you ever need to prove it in court.
Same for if you do find a partner, send all info in a cert letter and then to a safety deposit box.
People will beat you unconscious for $10 .
Careful when they seem to eager to hear your ideas and give nothing in return

George asks…

Will Renewable Energy Certificates still be around after July 1 2011?

Who generates these certificates?
What do they do? Who receives the benefits of them?
Have the NSW state govt policy changes made them redundant?
Thank you.

admin answers:

You can still study Renewable Energy At my TAFE in Melbourne so i don’t see why it shouldn’t be the same in NSW

sorry that it doesn’t really answer your question.

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Geothermal Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment, Second Edition

Geothermal Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment, Second Edition

An In-Depth Introduction to Geothermal Energy Addressing significant changes in the energy markets since the first edition, Geothermal Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment, Second Edition expounds on the geothermal industry, exploring the expansion, growth, and development of geothermal systems. This text covers every area of geothermal energy, including environmental and economic issues, and technological advancements. Considers the Vast Technological Achievements within the Geotherm
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Your Questions About Sustainable Energy Technologies

Mary asks…

What are the significant roles of energy in the economic and social progress of a country?

what i mean in the “energy” is the energy like electricity… not the one that is the ability to do work..

thanks.. ^_^

admin answers:

The historical role of energy use in the social and economic progress of mankind is reviewed and related to current energy policy issues.

The conflicting aims of energy conservation and of economic growth are analyzed in some detail with particular reference to the developments following the 1973-74 oil embargo and precipitous increase in world oil prices.

The growing importance of natural gas in the world energy balance is considered in the light of difficulties encountered when supply can no longer meet growing demand and decisions have to be made on alternate means of supplementation.

In this regard, the issue of the relative economics of electric energy supply and the direct use of hydrocarbon fuels from either petroleum or synthetic sources will be considered

Energy is essential to economic and social development and improved quality of life. However, sustainable patterns of production, distribution and use of energy are crucial. Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) will continue to dominate the energy supply situation for many years to come in most developed and developing countries. What is required then is to reduce the environmental impact of their continued development, and to reduce local health hazards and environmental pollution through enhanced international cooperation notably in the provision of concessional finance for capacity development and transfer of the relevant technology, and through appropriatenational action.

In developing countries sharp increases in energy services are required to improve the standard of living of their growing populations. The increase in the level of energy services would have a beneficial impact on poverty eradication by increasing employment opportunities and improving transportation, health and education. Many developing countries, inparticular the least developed, face the urgent need to provide adequate modern energy services, especially to billions of people in rural areas. This requires significant financial, human and technical resources and a broad-based mix of energy sources.

The objectives envisaged in this section should reflect the need for equity, adequate energy supplies and increasing energy consumption in developing countries and should take into account the situation of countries that are highly dependent on income generated from the production, processing and export, and/or consumption of fossil fuels and that have serious difficulties in switching to alternative sources of energy, and the situation of countries highly vulnerable to adverse effects of climate change.

Advances towards sustainable energy use are taking place and all partiescan benefit from progress made in other countries. It is also necessary to ensure international cooperation for promoting energy conservation and improvement of energy efficiency, the use of renewable energy and research,and the development and dissemination of innovative energy-related technology.

David asks…

I WANTED TO KNOW WHICH UNIVERSITY IS BETTER TU DELFT NETHERLANDS OR KTH SWEDEN?

I HAVE RECEIVED ADMISSION TO SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY AT TU DELFT AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY AT KTH.

I WANNA KNOW WHICH IS BETTER.

admin answers:

Havotf Univerdity

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