Renewable Energy Books:
Real
Goods Solar Living Source Book:
Achieving Energy
Independence - One Step at a Time
The Solar Fraud:
Alternative Energy:
Facts, Statistics, and Issues (Alternative Energy)
Renewable Energy, Second
Edition
Renewable Energy:
Sources for Fuels and Electricity
Renewable Resources
for Electric Power:
Charging Ahead:
Energy and Environment:
Alternative
Energy Sources (Science at the Edge)
Sustainable
Mobility:
Real Goods Solar Living Source Book: The Complete
Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable
Living (Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook,)
— by John Schaeffer (Editor), Doug Pratt
This book explains Renewable Energy and efficient
building practices. Great reference to start design
and cost estimation from each section. One of
the best features of this book is the addition
of the National Electric Code for RE systems.
It's possible to pick a building material to build
a house, design a solar electric system, decide
on appliances, determine the use of a greywater
system, and more from 562 pages.
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Achieving
Energy Independence - One Step at a Time
— by Jeffrey R. Yago
A step by step guide to understanding and installing
solar power systems without the lengthy chapters
on photovoltaic theory.It is great for homeowners
and for system suppliers and electricians who
need to learn more about principles and practice.
It will help system designers to make wise choices
and to understand and maintain their systems.
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Achieving
Energy Independance - One step at a time is
truely a step-by-step guide for the first
time alternative power enthusiast.
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New ways to prepare for power interruptions
including California style rolling blackouts,equipment
damaging brownouts and storm outages.
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Step-by-step methods you can implement on
your own to become independent from the utility
grid.
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Review of electrical terms,utility grid workings,and
instructions for identifying which appliences
to keep and which ones to replace.
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Writing modifications you can make to existing
electrical systems that will keep your office
equipment and lights operating through any
power outage.
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Detailed writing diagrams,wire sizing tables,
and equipment recommendations for installing
emergency generators,photovoltaic solar arrays,battery
banks and power inverters.
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Up-to-date power usage tables for most power
appliances and entertainment equipment.
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Extensive review of new lighting technologies
and the lighting fixtures that work best with
backup power syatems.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jeff
and Sharon Yago live in a 3,400 square foot
solar home in Virginia,which has served as a
testing platform for all systems and products
described in this book.Their home includes a
state-of-the-art automation system,multi-rrom
sound syatem,home theater,whirlpool,and passive
solar greenhouse.
Jeff is licensed professional engineer and certified
energy manager,with more than 25-years of experiance
in the energy conservation technology and holds
five U.S. patents for his design work.He has
authored many technical articles and three texts
on solar design and energy conservation,and
his projects have received state and national
awards for energy conservation.
Sharon experiments with growing tropical plants
in their greenhouse and provides all graphic
and document preparation for their publications.
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The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won't Run
the World
— by Howard C. Hayden; Paperback
This book outlines the potential energy to be
gained through solar energy systems and describes
all of the limiting factors/efficiencies that
impact/control solar energy systems. Best of all,
the way in which the book is organized, allows
easy access to specific facts and figures to fact
check the more outrageous claims of the alternative
energy hucksters.
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Alternative
Energy: Facts, Statistics, and Issues (Alternative
Energy)
— by Paula Berinstein
This volume overviews the US alternative energy
industry in historical, technological, economic,
regulatory, environmental impact, and political
contexts. The last chapter covers exotic sources
of renewable energy being toyed with by NASA and
others: e.g., antimatter, gravity, body heat (an
existing watch does so), salt power, and a space-based
solar power system. The book includes 85 tables
summarizing recent data and projections.
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Renewable
Energy, Second Edition
— by Bent Sorensen
The author has made the Second Edition more accessible
to researchers and students approaching the field
for the first time. Each chapter has a general
introductory section, but is also followed by
advanced topics. This gives university lecturers
the flexibility to include advanced topics while
at the same time allowing researchers to use the
book as a reference work.
In
the two decades since Renewable Energy was first
published,there has been a phenomenal rise in
interest and applications in this area.This second
edition of Renewable energy is undoubtedly one
of the most complete accounts of the subject,from
source to extraction and use.The book is academically
rigorous,but accessible.
The author first describesthe effect of the sun
on the atmosphereand the creation of the wind
and aves,including the effect of global warming
then,for each type of renewable energy,from direct
solar radition to biomass,there follows a technical
description of the devices that can be used to
transform the energy into useful forms.
The final part of the book looks at social and
economic aspects of renewable energy – the
costs of our current fuel bills versus new energy
sources,and the difference it could make to developing
as well as developed countries.The concept of
whole new energy systems based around wind,solar
and other energies is put into a real-life context.
Key features of the book include:
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Reference
paths:the reader may follow the general proces
from source through distribution,or concentrate
on a specific type of energy(e.g. wind power
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Planning
tools:quantitative descriptions of energy
flows,efficiencies and impacts.
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GIS
based ilustrations:easy overview of distribution
on global maps.
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Layering:the
material is divided into undergraduate text
and advanced topics.
Renewable
Energy is essential reading for undergraduates
and graduates in Earth Sciences,Environmental
Sciences and Engineering.Researchers will find
it a useful reference tool.The book will also
prove invaluable to consultants and planners working
in both the public and private sectords of government
and international agencies.
Bent Sorensen is currently Professor of Physics
atRoskide University (Denmark), and President
of Novator Advanced Technology Consulting.The
author has held academic posts at University of
California at Berkeley and Yale University (USA),
and at Kyoto University (Japan),University of
Grenoble(France) and Sydney University ( Australia).He
was awarded the Australian-European Award for
Eminent European Scientist(1982).
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Renewable Energy: Sources for Fuels and Electricity
— by Thomsa B. Johansson, et al
Concise collection of texts treating all aspects
of Renewable Energy in a grown up manner. Valuable
as a starter's information source but also for
experts. Covers all the aspects of renewable energy
sources and many ways to transform one form of
energy to another. Spans from biomass, biogas,
solar collectors, solar cells to fuel cell cogeneration.
ENERGY/REFERENCE
Written and edited by the World's leading energy
experts,Renewable Energy is the first comprehensive
reference work on alternative energy to appear
in more than a decade.It will be the definitive
resource guide for this growing field throughout
the 1990s and beyond.
"I have not finished reading this bookWhat
is more,I do not expect to reading it.Indeed I
suspect I shall go on reading it for the rest
of my professional life,as a cleric reads the
Bible.It is a tour de force,and a triumph for
its editors and authors."
– Walt Patterson,writing in New Scientist
"...a
major step towards a new way of thinking about
energy and offers a huge range of potential directions
for development...a magnificent collection of
detailed work and should be found in every utility's
library"
– FT Energy Economist
"...the
encyclopedia of renewable energy."
– Global Environment CHange
"Renewable
Energy documents the dramatic progress in a wide
range of renewable options over the last decade
and the auspicious prospects for future gains
It will serve as important reference as utility
and othe energy planners explore strategies for
hastening the development of renewables and integrating
them inti energy investment portfolios."
– Richard Balzhiser,President & CEO,
Electric power Research Institute
"in
looking toward the 21 st century, environmentally
safe and cost effective energy systems wil be
needed.Renewable Energy offers a n exciting and
varied menu of technological options for building
a renewables-based energy economy.It is required
reading for any who wish to explore the practical
paths to sustainable development."
– Ged R Davis, Head of Group Investor Relations,Shell
International Petroleum Company
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Renewable
Resources for Electric Power: Prospects and Challenges
— by Raphael Edinger, Sanjay Kaul
This book outlines the prospects & challenges
made for renewable resurces for electric power.
Best of all, the way in which the book is organized,
allows easy access to specific facts and figures
to fact check the more outrageous claims of the
electric power.
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Charging
Ahead: The Business of Renewable Energy and What
It Means for America
— John J. Berger, Lester C. Thurow
If you are interested in solar,wind,biomass and
other clean energy sources then this is the book
for you.This book takes you from past to present
with insights on the people who are making this
field happen.It also tells you about their business
strategies and practices.It also gives detailed
information about where this particular technology
is headed with respects to the dropping manufacturing
costs and a host of other things.
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Energy
and Environment: The Policy Challenge
— by by John Byrne, Daniel Rich
It focuses on important interconnections between
energy use and global change issues such as upper
atmosphere ozone depletion and global warming.
Policy options for meeting these challenges are
explored in eight contributed chapters that concentrate
on issues of energy choice, developing- country
needs, the transport sector dilemma, and the opportunity
and limits of international agreements.
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Alternative
Energy Sources (Science at the Edge)
— by Sally Morgan
This item was published in September 2002.
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Sustainable
Mobility: Renewable Energies for Powering Fuel
Cell Vehicles
— by Raphael Edinger, Sanjay Kaul
This book outlines the challenges towards sustainable mobility. The 21st century sets humankind on the verge of shaping our environment in either beneficial or detrimental ways for future generations. Apart from household and industry energy consumption, mobility and transportation are held responsible for increasing rates of greenhouse gas emissions and an unprecedented consumption of fossil resources.
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