The Sun : A User's Manual
The Sun is an account of the many ways in which our nearest star affects our planet, how its influence has changed over the ...
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The Technological and Economic Future of Nuclear Power
Discusses the eroding economics of nuclear power for electricity generation as well as technical, legal, and political acceptance ...
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The World Market for Natural Gas
The World Market for Natural Gas – Implications for Europe analyses the main issues for the gas industry: reserves, production, ...
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Thermal Energy Storage for Sustainable Energy Consumption
? ukurova University, Turkey in collaboration with Ljubljana University, Slovenia and the International Energy Agency Implementing ...
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Third Generation Photovoltaics
Photovoltaics, the direct conversion of sunlight to electricity, is now the fastest growing technology for electricity generation. ...
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Time in Quantum Mechanics
The treatment of time in quantum mechanics is still an important and challenging open question in the foundation of the quantum ...
WeiterlesenTowards a Cleaner Planet
The world has entered a period of significant changes regarding the future of energy generation, mainly caused by the apparent ...
WeiterlesenTowards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management : Challenges and Prospects
The selection of case studies presents LCM as a business management approach that can be used by all types of businesses ...
WeiterlesenTowards an Emissions Trading System in Mexico: Rationale, Design and Connections with the Global Climate Agenda : Outlook on the first ETS in Latin-America and Exploration of the Way Forward
This book provides detailed information about the incoming Mexican Emissions Trading System, including an analysis on why ...
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Transmission Electron Microscopy : Physics of Image Formation
Transmission Electron Microscopy: Physics of Image Formation presents the theory of image and contrast formation, and the ...
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Ultrascale Computing Systems
The needs of future digital data and computer systems are expected to be two to three orders of magnitude larger than for ...
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Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy
This book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and ...
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Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture
This book gives an overview of today’s energy problem in the context of a rising world population, climate change and the ...
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Urban Transportation Planning in the United States
The book focuses in-depth at the most significant event in transportation planning--the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962; ...
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Vector Control of Three-Phase AC Machines : System Development in the Practice
This monograph covers the area of vector control of three-phase AC machines, in particular induction motors with squirrel-cage ...
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Vehicle Propulsion Systems
Automobiles are responsible for a substantial part of the world's consumption of primary energy, mostly fossil liquid hydrocarbons. ...
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Venezuela: A Petro-State Using Renewable Energies : A Contribution to the Global Debate about New Renewable Energies for Electricity Generation
In spite of the economic role of oil, Venezuela has started developing hydroelectricity since the 1950s. At present, the ...
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Vision 2050 : Roadmap for a Sustainable Earth
Hiroshi Komiyama's "Vision 2050" is a plan for paving a road to global sustainability. "Vision 2050" is built upon three ...
WeiterlesenVoltage-Enhanced Processing of Biomass and Biochar / Gerardo Diaz
The book explains aspects of this processing method in thermal and non-thermal plasmas, as well as describing the effects ...
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Weather & Climate Services for the Energy Industry
This open access book showcases the burgeoning area of applied research at the intersection between weather and climate science ...
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