Renewable Energy
The Renewable Energy Handbook, Revised Edition: The Updated Comprehensive Guide to Renewable Energy and Independent Living
This revised edition of The Renewable Energy Handbook focuses on the unique requirements of off-grid living as well as using "green" energy for homeowners who remain connected to the electrical utility. The book contains chapters on: Energy efficiency and economics Home heating and cooling and domestic water heating Photovoltaic, wind, and micro-hydro energy generation Battery selection and inverters Backup power, wireless communications, etc. It includes comprehensive specifications for many o | ||
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Energy Resources in East Africa: Opportunities and Challenges
This book provides information on available sources of energy in East Africa and how energy suppliers can exploit them in an integrated form to produce the right blend of energy for various applications: industrial, domestic and recreational uses. The authors provide in-depth analysis of the impacts, advantages and disadvantages, environmental, industrialization and distribution costs of different energy sources. The book aims to contribute to a sustainable exploitation of energy resources. | ||
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Modeling and Control of Sustainable Power Systems: Towards Smarter and Greener Electric Grids (Green Energy and Technology)
The concept of the smart grid promises the world an efficient and intelligent approach of managing energy production, transportation, and consumption by incorporating intelligence, efficiency, and optimality into the power grid. Both energy providers and consumers can take advantage of the convenience, reliability, and energy savings achieved by real-time and intelligent energy management. To this end, the current power grid is experiencing drastic changes and upgrades. For instance, more signif | ||
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Implementing Environmental and Resource Management (Environmental Protection in the European Union)
This book represents the collected works of Environmental and Resource Management (ERM) Alumni as well as young professionals and researches who are involved in the field of ERM. The connecting theme of these works is the successful implementation of ERM in a wide range of issues including: energy innovation and management, climate change response and sustainable development aspects of resource management in developing countries. This book aims to expose some of the research outputs of ERM Alum | ||
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Commercial Energy Auditing Reference Handbook, Second Edition
Updated and expanded, this edition includes new material on early replacement business justification, lease arrangements and effect on ECM project interest, coordinating upstream/downstream set points, semiconductor fab multi-stage HVAC air tempering, commissioning, HVAC overlapping heating and cooling, and much more. The book begins with the premise that when commercial facilities are subdivided into categories based on business type, many useful patterns can be identified that become generally | ||
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Wind Power – Renewable Energy Science Kit
Build a working wind turbine to harness power out of thin air. Wind is one of the most promising sources of clean, renewable energy available today. Wind energy has been used for centuries to pump water and crush grain in windmills, and is now increasingly being used to generate electricity to power our modern world. Warning Choking Hazard! Contains small parts, not for children under 3. | ||
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Didax Renewable Energy Kit
DD-81170 Designed to make understanding of renewable and sustainable energy generation an exciting and tactile experience using solar, wind and water power. For indoor or outdoor use, this resource comes in a modular format with 4 interchangeable monitors to show differing outputs from the 3 interchangeable power heads (one base). Kit includes suggested activities and general teachers information. Made of high-impact plastic, the base is 7" x 10", the maximum height is 20", monitors are 3 1/2" i | ||
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Smart Grid: Integrating Renewable, Distributed & Efficient Energy
The creation of a flexible, efficient, digitized, dependable and resilient power grid may well be the best route to increasing energy efficiency & security, as well as boosting the potential of renewable & distributed power sources. This book covers smart grids from A-Z, providing a complete treatment of the topic, covering both policy and technology, explaining the most recent innovations supporting its development, and clarifying how the smart grid can support the integration of renewable ener | ||
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Design of Smart Power Grid Renewable Energy Systems
To address the modeling and control of smart grid renewable energy system into electric power systems, this book integrates three areas of electrical engineering: power system engineering, control systems engineering and power electronics The approach to the integration of these three areas differs from classical methods. Due to complexity of this task, the author has decided to present the basic concepts, and then present a simulation test bed in matlab to use these concepts to solve a basic | ||
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Blue Sky Energy SB3024DiL 12V/24V Charge Controller w/ Display
12V / 24V MPPT charge controller with Display This charge controller comes with the digital display that can monitor either a single charge controller, or the combined total of up to 8 charge controllers on a single IPN network. A low power LED display is used to provide both very low power consumption and excellent readability.Blue Energy Solar Boost 3024DiL's advanced fully automatic 3-stage charge control system will properly charge flooded lead-acid, AGM and GEL batteries resulting in improv | ||
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Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate
There are many misconceptions about the future of global energy often presented as fact by the media, politicians, business leaders, activists, and even scientists—wasting time and money and hampering the development of progressive energy policies. Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate debunks the most common fallacies to make way for a constructive, scientific approach to the global energy challenge.When will the world run out of oil? Should nuclear energy b | ||
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Carsten Reisinger Illustrations – Wooden mannequin light bulb energy saver saving recycle symbol icon preserve save conserve renewable – Drawing Book – Drawing Book 8 x 8 inch
Wooden mannequin light bulb energy saver saving recycle symbol icon preserve save conserve renewable Drawing Book is a great way to start sketching, drawing, designing, scrapbooking, or just jotting down your thoughts. This unique spiral bound hard covered book includes acid free bright white paper and features twin loop wire spring binding. A great alternative to the standard photo album or notebook. Perfect for use with crayons, markers, paints, pastels, stickers, pencils and pens. Great as a | ||
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Eva-dry Electric Petite Dehumidifier
The Eva-Dry Electric Petite Dehumidifier uses Peltier Technology (no compressor) which makes it light and quiet. It is perfect for bathrooms, and small to mid-sized rooms where dampness and humidity are a problem. This unit is small enough to easily fit on your desk or workbench. It extracts the moisture from the air and stores it in a spill-proof reservoir. Just plug it in and it quietly dries the air. Features an automatic shut off switch to shut the unit off when the water reservoir is full. | ||
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A Primer on Renewable Energy
The power available from a wind turbine depends on the winds, not upon the political orientation of the pundit who extols or maligns the installation. There is no Republican or Democratic version of how much power can come from a hydropower installation. No religious, philosophical, or political view holds sway over the intensity of sunlight.A Primer on Renewable Energy asks to what extent renewable energy sources are adequate to the task of providing our energy. That task involves studying how | ||
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Renewable Energy – 36″H x 24″W – Peel and Stick Wall Decal by Wallmonkeys
WallMonkeys wall graphics are printed on the highest quality re-positionable, self-adhesive fabric paper. Each order is printed in-house and on-demand. WallMonkeys uses premium materials & state-of-the-art production technologies. Our white fabric material is superior to vinyl decals. You can literally see and feel the difference. Our wall graphics apply in minutes and won't damage your paint or leave any mess. PLEASE double check the size of the image you are ordering prior to clicking the 'ADD | ||
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Investing in the Renewable Power Market: How to Profit from Energy Transformation (Wiley Finance)
The financial challenges facing clean energy installationsThe path to the widespread adoption of renewable energy is littered with major technological legal, political, and financial challenges. Investing in the Renewable Power Market is a reality check for the mass roll out of green energy and its financial dominance of the world energy market, focusing on real energy costs and global energy needs over the next decade. If green energy is to be truly successful, the market must be properly under | ||
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Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SRREN) assesses the potential role of renewable energy in the mitigation of climate change. It covers the six most important renewable energy sources - bioenergy, solar, geothermal, hydropower, ocean and wind energy - as well as their integration into present and future energy systems. It considers the environmental and social consequences associated with the deployment of these technologies, and presents strategies to overcome | ||
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Sunforce 37130 130W Crystalline Solar Panel
The Sunforce 130-Watt Crystalline Solar Panel has an aluminum frame for extended outdoor use. The bypass diode minimizes the power drop caused by shade. This unit is ideal for RVs, homes, boats, back-up and remote power use, 12 Volt battery charging, and solar power stations, pumps, and lighting equipment. The solar panel has high efficiency crystalline solar cells, and is easy to install and completely maintenance-free. The solar panel is completely weatherproof, and comes with a 25-year limite | ||
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Didax Renewable Energy Kit
Help your students change the future! Teach the concepts of renewable and sustainable energy generation through hands-on exploration of solar, wind, and water power. Indoor/outdoor kit has 4 interchangeable monitors and 3 interchangeable power heads, easily snapped into a high-impact plastic base. Includes activities, teacher information, and 20 feet of tubing for water module. Base: 7" x 10". Max. height: 20" | ||
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Wind Power for the World: The Rise of Modern Wind Energy (Pan Stanford Series on Renewable Energy)
This book sheds light on how the modern 3-bladed wind turbine came into being, and who, how and what in the proceeding period caused the success. It looks back over three decades to find the roots of this exciting development, a long cavalcade of developers, inventors, and manufacturers including the Danish authors who themselves were part of the breakthrough. Written for non-specialists, the book covers minimal science, emphasizing the story of how wind power became a worldwide 30-billion-euro | ||
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