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Energy Balance of Denmark\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6.3. Activities to Ensure Denmark’s Energy Security\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6.4. A Testing Ground for Novelties: Climate and Energy Policy\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 7. Republic of Finland: Dynamic Modernization of the Energy Sector\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7. 1. Energy Balance of Finland\u003c\/p\u003e  7.2 Activities Aimed at Ensuring Finland’s Energy Security\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7.3 Energy and Climate: Practical Actions\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 8. The Republic of Iceland: Ambitious Energy Plans\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.1. Energy Balance of Iceland\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.2. Renewable Energy Resources\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.3 Forms and Methods of Using the Energy Potential\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.4. 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Through fascinating and critical ethnographic descriptions, Günel offers a piercing glimpse into the front-lines of global climate change action.\" -- Gebhard Keny * Ethnos *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpaceship in the Desert\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely contribution to a growing field of anthropological scholarship on energy. . . . This book has the potential to attract readers from across the social sciences, not just within anthropology. The richness of ethnographic detail drawn in connection with the work of key thinkers may satisfy some readers.\" -- Idalina Baptista * Anthropological Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Compelling and thought-provoking. . . .  Günel encourages us as academics and as persons to rethink, renegotiate, and recreate our imaginations of the future through climate change technologies that do not preserve the status quo, but rather, alter it in the present.\" -- Hai Ri (Sophia) Jeon * Anthropology Book Forum *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Günel’s] brilliant ethnography of Masdar reminds us of the limits of the third pilot of Spaceship Earth—the market.... Günel’s study also shows how the scope of climate change demands administrative bodies beyond corporations and states.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Troy Vettese * Viewpoint Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The Soul of Carbon Dioxide  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 1. Inhabiting the Spaceship  37\u003cbr\u003e 2. Beautiful Buildings and Research Contracts  65\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Technology\u003cbr\u003e 3. 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This volume provides an indispensable guide to the geopolitical challenges associated with transforming the global energy system. It brings together an impressive team of researchers from multiple disciplines from across the globe.’\u003c\/i\u003e -- Michael Bradshaw, University of Warwick, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘This impressive volume is the ideal starting point for anyone interested in the geopolitics of the energy transition. 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Vasquez 18 The potential of biomass 334 Joana Portugal-Pereira, Francielle Carvalho, Régis Rathmann, Alexandre Szklo, Pedro Rochedo, and Roberto Schaeffer 19 Hydrogen as carbon-free energy carrier and commodity 351 Ad van Wijk 20 A new hope for nuclear? 372 Elina Brutschin  PART IV RECALIBRATING ENERGY, INDUSTRY, FOREIGN, AND SECURITY POLICY 21 US defense strategy: forging an industrial orientation towards energy security and foreign policy 388 Amy Myers Jaffe 22 The EU’s external energy governance in the age of the energy transition 404 Marco Giuli and Sebastian Oberthür 23 China and the geopolitics of the energy transition 420 Duncan Freeman 24 The India story: ensuring energy access, security, justice, and sustainability for a fifth of humanity 431 Shuva Raha, Nandini Harihar, and Tulika Gupta 25 Energy transition dynamics in Southeast Asia 449 Muhamad Izham Abd Shukor, Nurjuanis Zara Zainuddin, and Noor Miza Razali 26 A renewable power in waiting? 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The research of the compensation system working processes in time- and frequency-domain allows to reach the positive effect for the developed method. The necessity of the analytical methods for analysis of nonlinear elements of electrical systems in the frequency-domain development have been grounded. The expediency and efficiency of the usage of small parameter method, which is realized in frequency-domain using instantaneous admittance components, have been grounded. It is shown that application of a small parameter method with its realization in frequency domain enables significant simplification of the process of the analysis of electric circuits with semiconductor converters in an analytical form and facilitation of calculation automation. Based on this, the algorithm for calculation of the passive filter parameters have been proposed. This allows to reach the desired voltage total harmonic distortion coefficient. The analysis of energy consumption and conversion in electrical systems with semiconductor converters based on the instantaneous power components analysis allowed to make important conclusions. Based on the analysis in analytical form in the frequency domain by numerical analysis and mathematical modeling of compensation, non-active components of current improvement methods were proposed as compensation non-active components under the non-sinusoidal and supply voltage unbalance and proved the effectiveness of its implementation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface; Abbreviations List; Main Symbols; Analysis of the Problem of Compensation for Nonlinear Equipment Influence on Efficiency of the Operation of Electricity Supply System; Theory of Research in Energy Processes in Electromechanical Systems with Nonlinear Elements; Analytical Method for Determination of Harmonic Composition of Load Current for Calculation and Choice of Passive Filters; Analysis of Electric Circuits with Semiconductor Transducers; Analysis of Operation of the Compensation Systems in an Analytical Form in Electricity Supply Networks with a Nonlinear and Unbalanced Load; Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of the Operation of Systems of the Compensation for Current Nonactive Components under Conditions of Harmonic Distortions and Unbalance of Supply Network Voltage; Conclusion; References; Index.","brand":"Nova Science Publishers Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48886170190167,"sku":"9781536177817","price":138.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"energy-sprawl-solutions-balancing-global-development-and-conservation-9781610917223","title":"Energy Sprawl Solutions: Balancing Global","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the next several decades, as human populations grow and developing countries become more affluent, the demand for energy will soar. 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