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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Nordic Dimension of Energy Security
Book SynopsisThis book will show that when some countries begin using oil and gas as an instrument of exerting pressure and to realize political goals, energy security becomes synonymous with national security as well as economic security. It is within this context that the Nordic countries serve as role models and an exemplification of modern, innovative and ecofriendly solutions. This book highlights that the Nordic countries represent a very broad spectrum of competencies and techniques in the field of making use of various energy sources, which basically exhausts all the possible and currently available possibilities. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1. Energy Security: Contemporary Challenges 1.1 Security and Security Policy 1.2 Subject and Scope of the State's Energy Security 1.3 Energy and Climate Security 1.4. Energy Security and Environmental Security 1.5. Evolution of International Cooperation on Environmental and Climate Protection CHAPTER 2. Global Energy Market Dilemmas 2.1. Opportunities and Challenges of the First Decade of the 21st Century 2.2. Increase in Energy Demand 2.3. Energy Production and Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2.4. New Trends in the Global Energy System CHAPTER 3. Energy Balance in the Second Decade of the 21st Century 3.1. The Global Energy Balance 3.2. Top Energy Producers, Exporters and Importers 3.3. Current Energy Consumption. CHAPTER 4. Energy Policy of the European Union in the 21st Century 4.1. European Energy Market: Economic and Political Conditions in the First Decade 4.2. The European Union and Energy Supply Problems 4.3. Contemporary Challenges in the EU Strategy and Energy Balance 4.4. The EU's Activity in Counteracting Climate Change: The Special Role of RES and EU ETS regulation 4.5. The EU’s Climate Policy CHAPTER 5. Norden States in the Context of Energy Security: Fundamental Issues 5.1 Nordic States in the International Arena 5.2 Norden and the Energy Problems in the Baltic Sea Region CHAPTER 6. The Kingdom of Denmark: Leader in Energy Efficiency 6.1 Energy Potential: Hydrocarbon Resources 6.2. Energy Balance of Denmark 6.3. Activities to Ensure Denmark’s Energy Security 6.4. A Testing Ground for Novelties: Climate and Energy Policy CHAPTER 7. Republic of Finland: Dynamic Modernization of the Energy Sector 7. 1. Energy Balance of Finland 7.2 Activities Aimed at Ensuring Finland’s Energy Security 7.3 Energy and Climate: Practical Actions CHAPTER 8. The Republic of Iceland: Ambitious Energy Plans 8.1. Energy Balance of Iceland 8.2. Renewable Energy Resources 8.3 Forms and Methods of Using the Energy Potential 8.4. Dynamics in the Development of Energy Security CHAPTER 9. The Kingdom of Sweden: Transition to an Ecologically Sound Society 9.1 Dynamics of Changes in Energy Policy 9.2 Electricity as the Basis for the Energy Balance 9.3 The Importance of Renewable Energy for Climate Protection 9.4. Sweden: Energy Security CHAPTER 10. The Kingdom of Norway: Standing in Energy 10.1 Norway as a Producer of Oil and Gas 10.2. Electricity as the Basis for Energy Balance 10.3 Environmental and Climate Protection Measures 10.4. Norway: Basic Premises for Energy Security CHAPTER 11. The Nordic Countries in the Face of Current Challenges of Energy Security 11.1 Environmental Protection, Climate Change and Energy Culture 11.2 Cooperation in Energy Policy: Effective Remedy for the Contemporary Challenges of Energy Security CONCLUSION
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Sustainable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus in
Book SynopsisThis book addresses challenges and opportunities in the Energy-Water-Environment (EWE) nexus, with a particular focus on research and technology development requirements in harsh desert climates. Its chapters include selected contributions presented during the 1st international conference on sustainable Energy-Water-Environment nexus in desert climates (ICSEWEN-19) held at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) in Doha, Qatar in December 2019. This volume is comprised of three main chapters, each describing important case studies and progress on water, energy and environmental questions. A fourth chapter on policies and community outreach on these three areas is also included. This compilation aims to bridge the gap between research and industry to address the socioeconomic impacts of the nexus imbalance as perceived by scientists, industrial partners, and policymakers. The content of this book is of particular importance to graduate students, researchers and decision makers interested in understanding water, energy and environmental challenges in arid areas. Re searchers in environmental and civil engineering, chemistry, hydrology and environmental science can also find unique in-situ observations of the current nexus imbalance in deserts climate to validate their investigations. It is also an invaluable guide for industry professionals working in water, energy, environment and food sectors to understand the rapidly evolving landscape of the EWE nexus in arid areas. The analyses, observations and lessons-learned summarized herein are applicable to other arid areas outside North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as well, such as central Australia, the southwest of the United States and deserts in central Asia.Table of ContentsModelling the effect of the pumping variations’ on the groundwater quality in the semi-arid Aquifers.- Assessment of Groundwater Aquifer Impact from Artificial Lagoons and the Re-use of Wastewater in Qatar.- Temporal groundwater level prediction using multivariate geostatistics: a case study from Sfax superficial aquifer (Tunisia).- Integration of electromagnetic method and resistivity depth sounding in the evaluation of groundwater potentials of Araromi phases 1 and 2, Akungba-Akoko, southwestern Nigeria.- Contribution to the Study of Fluoride Ion Concentrations in Groundwater and its Impact on the Desert Areas of South-eastern Algeria.- Groundwater stability assessment with geospatial modeling using GIS: a case study of ILLIZI town, Algeria.- Efficiency assessment of AHP and fuzzy AHP in suitability mapping for artificial recharging (Case study: south of Kashan basin, Isfahan, Iran).- Statistical methods for the evaluation of water quality.- Research on innovative materials and technologies for water treatment and water desalination: A conceptual analysis from 1969 to 2019.- The Microbial and Physicochemical Analysis and Treatment of Groundwater of South Punjab, Pakistan.- Removal of cyanotoxins in drinking water using advanced oxidation processes.- Microplastic detection and analysis in water samples.- Column Adsorption Studies of phenolic compounds on nanoparticles synthesized from Moroccan phosphate rock.- Summary of Field Trial Results of the Treatment of Contaminated Water using Non-fouling Super Hydrophilic Functionalized Ceramic Membranes.- Preliminary study for phosphate recovery from starch factory wastewater using porous aluminum.- Removal of organic compounds from olive mill wastewater by flotation-anaerobic-aerobic processes and lime treatment.- Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Technologies for Appropriate Agricultural use in Jordan.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Renewable Energy Communities and the Low Carbon Energy Transition in Europe
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses renewable energy communities, and in particular renewable energy cooperatives (REScoops), in the context of the revised EU Renewables Directive. It provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of the renewable energy community movement in over six different countries of continental Europe. It addresses their visions, strategy, organisation, agency, and more particularly the challenges they encounter. This is of particular importance to gain more understanding into how renewable energy communities fare in domestic energy markets where they are confronted with regime institutions, structures and incumbents’ agency that tend to favour maintaining of the status quo while blocking attempts to empower and institutionalise renewable energy communities as market entrants having a disruptive, radical green and localist agenda. This volume will be an invaluable reference for academics and practitioners with an interest in social innovation in sustainable transitions, the role of community energy in energy markets, their agency, as well as an outlook to the impact that the EU Renewables Directive may have to change national legislation and policy frameworks to create a level playing field that is essentially more fair and beneficial to renewable energy communities. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.Chapter 2: “What are Energy Communities Under the EU’s Clean Energy Package?”.Chapter 3: Community energy on the east side of the Baltic Sea Region: from standstill to first steps.Chapter 4: Clean energy transition in Southeast Europe: The paradigm of Greece from a fossil fuel mediator to a community energy hub.Chapter 5: The community energy sector in Italy; historical perspective and recent evolution.Chapter 6: Community Energy in Germany: From Technology Pioneers to Professionalisation under Uncertainty.Chapter 7: Support structures for renewable energy communities.Chapter 8: Energy Communities promoting Home Energy Savings: Interventions, Theory and Results.Chapter 9: Creating an enabling policy framework for inclusive energy communities: a gender perspective.Chapter 10: Housing communities as low-carbon energy pioneers Experiences from the Netherlands. Chapter 11: Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Energy Transition of the Electricity Sectors in
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the energy policies in the European Union and Japan in terms of electricity markets and climate action, including energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, and the reduction of emissions. The book evaluates and compares the regulatory frameworks for achieving energy transitions by answering a number of questions focused on the essence and range of the regulatory models used by leading global economies which herald carbon neutrality by 2050. The book provides a useful framework that systematises Japanese and European energy policies and legislation including electricity-related policies, plans, and programmes. Discussing these issues in relation to the European and Japanese 2050 energy transition the author delves into the four pillars of the transition: market reform, reduction of emissions, promotion of renewables, and enhancing energy efficiency. Each chapter demonstrates the timing of the actions undertaken both in Europe and Japan; analyses the character of the conducted actions, evaluates the stakeholders of the realised agenda; and presents the technologies involved in the energy transition.Table of Contents1: Introduction.- 2: Making the Electricity Market Work.- 3: Making the Electricity Sector Clean.- 4: Making Energy Sources Renewable.- 5: Making Energy Efficient.- 6: Making Energy Transition Just.- 7: Remaking: Conclusion.
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Springer International Publishing AG Digitisation and Low-Carbon Energy Transitions
Book SynopsisThe world is digitising as the need for low-carbon transitions gains urgency. Decarbonising energy requires the digital process control of energy production, transmission and end use. Diversified electrification across sectors requires real-time digital coordination of distributed energy production, At the same time, digitisation is accompanied by significant increases in energy demand, partly compensated through energy efficiency gains.The emergent linkages between digitisation and decarbonisation – that constitute and enable the twin transition – are the subject of this book. The collection features authors from across the social sciences who situate digitisation and low-carbon energy transitions in the socio-technical and political economic contexts in which they unfold, to offer insights on the dynamics and contingencies of digitisation in and beyond the energy sector.This is an open access book.Table of Contents1 Digitisation and low-carbon energy transitions.- 2 Just low-carbon mobility transitions : A research-based art exhibition.- 3 A solar off-grid software : The making of infrastructures, markets and consumers 'beyond energy'.- 4 Contested energy futures in Hokkaido : Speculating with European renewable energy models.- 5 Overcoming abstraction: Affectual states in the efforts to decarbonize energy among young climate activists.- 6 A new reflexive turn: Glitches, carbon footprints, and streaming videos.- 7 The hidden energies of work digitization: A view from France through the use of coworking spaces.- 8 Littering the city or freedom of mobility? The case of electric scooters.- 9 Mediatised practices : Renovaing homes with media and ICTs in Australia.
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Springer International Publishing AG Natural Gas at the Frontline Between the EU,
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the rapidly unfolding events that have impacted on the European energy dynamics, in the light of the way in Ukraine and the energy crisis that have reconfigured, since 2022, the European and the global geopolitical scene, dislocating not only crucial natural resources but also the pace of the energy transition and the continent’s existential security, its basic trust and sense of continuity. It introduces an innovative interpretation of the conflict and cooperation dynamics in Europe, by challenging the reader to look beyond the material aspects of energy security, related to supply and demand, consumption, production and prices dynamics, which I nonetheless explain in detail. Thus, it invites the audience to explore the deeper layer of motivations that underpin the actors’ decision to engage in conflict and cooperation, by exploring their cognitive and psychological considerations, in addition to the material ones. For this purpose, it presents a new conceptual tool, the conflict-cooperation perpetuum, in order to explain why the same players, in this case the EU, Russia and Turkey, may choose to simultaneously perceive each other as security threats and trade partners, engaging in both conflict and cooperation simultaneously with the same ‘Other’. In addition, it proposes to apply the framework of ontological security, in order to understand the responses of the EU, Russia and Turkey to the major existential crises that have affected them in past years, culminating with the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis of 2022. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Energy As Security: Overcoming Theoretical and Conceptual Reductionism in Energy Literature.- Chapter 3: Ontological Energy Security: Cognitive and Material Foundations for a Conflict-Cooperation Perpetuum.- Chapter 4: Natural Gas at the Frontline of the Energy Crisis and the War in Ukraine: a material perspective.- Chapter 5: The EU’s Physical and Ontological Energy Security Quest: Between a vulnerable importer of energy and an assertive exporter of values.- Chapter 6: Russia’s Energy Policy and Strategy: From a reliable partner to an unwanted supplier.- Chapter 7: Turkey’s Energy Strategy: In search of an upgraded political and energy status.
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Springer International Publishing AG World Energy Handbook
Book SynopsisWorld Energy Handbook presents an overview of the energy systems of selected countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. It is a complete guide to energy history and generation in these countries, including renewable energy, storage, and use. The authors follow the same analytical approach for each country to construct comprehensive surveys of all aspects of energy systems, examining the advantages and disadvantages of each country’s energy infrastructures. The handbook aims to raise awareness about the condition and deficiencies of energy systems in developing countries, and the potential for the countries to improve, grow, and advance the technologies for energy generation – especially by turning to renewable energy sources to increase energy storage capacities and optimizing the way subsystems are integrated. The book serves as a must-have guide for decision-makers, investors, business people, and other professionals to understand the global distribution of energy generation, transmission, and each country’s carbon footprint and identify opportunities for energy system improvement worldwide. Table of ContentsPart I Introduction Chapter 1 World Energy Overview.- Chapter 2 Energy Research Methodology.- Chapter 3 Financing energy projects.- PART II Africa Chapter 4 Angola.- Chapter 5 Botswana.- Chapter 6 Congo.- Chapter 7 Egypt.- Chapter 8 Ethiopia.- Chapter 9 Morocco.- Chapter 10 Nigeria.- Chapter 11 Rwanda.- Chapter 12 South Africa.- Chapter 13 Tanzania.- Chapter 14 Uganda.- Chapter 15 Zambia.- Chapter 16 Zimbabwe.- PART III ASIA Chapter 17 Cambodia.- Chapter 18 China.- Chapter 19 Indonesia.- Chapter 20 Japan.- Chapter 21 Lebanon.- Chapter 22 Pakistan.- Chapter 23 Qatar.- Chapter 24 Thailand.- Chapter 25 Vietnam.- Part IV Americas Chapter 26 Argentina.- Chapter 27 Canada.- Chapter 28 Cuba.- Chapter 29 Haiti.- Chapter 30 Panama.- Chapter 31 Puerto Rico.- Chapter 32 Uruguay.- Chapter 33 Uruguay.- Chapter 34 Venezuela.- Part V Europe Chapter 35 European Union.- Chapter 36 Macedonia.- Chapter 37 Switzerland.- Chapter 38 Ukraine.
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De Gruyter Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging
Book SynopsisEveryday life as we knew it is increasingly challenged in a world of climate, social, health and political crisis. Emerging technologies, data analytics and automation open up new possibilities which have implications for energy generation, storage and energy demand. To support these changes we urgently need to rethink how energy will be sourced, shared and used. Yet existing approaches to this problem, driven by engineering, data analytics and capital, are dangerously conservative and entrenched. Energy Futures critically evaluates this context, and the energy infrastructures, stakeholders, and politics that participate in it, to propose plausible, responsible and ethical modes of encountering possible energy futures. Imagining anthropocene challenges, emerging technologies and everyday life otherwise through empirically grounded studies, opens up possible energy futures. Energy Futures proposes and demonstrates a new critical and interventional futures-oriented energy anthropology. Combining the theories and methods of futures anthropology with the critical expertise and perspectives of energy anthropology creates a powerful mode of engagement, which this book argues is needed to disrupt the dominant narratives about our energy futures. Its contributors collectively reveal and evidence through innovative ethnographic practice how new knowledge about imagined and possible energy futures can be mobilised in engagements with emerging technologies, anthropocene challenges and everyday realities. In doing so it brings together authors, analytical expertise and ethnographic evidence from the global south, north and places in between, generated through innovative methodologies including remote video and comic strip methods and documentary video practice as well as long term fieldwork.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi and Deepwater Horizon Disasters from a Natural Science and Humanities Perspective
Book SynopsisIn our everyday imaginations we use the laws of nature with their tremendous possibilities of technical progress for the benefit of mankind. The three catastrophes of Chernobyl (26 April 1986), Fukushima Daichii (11 March 2011) and in the Gulf of Mexico, explosion of the drilling platform Deepwater Horizon (20 April 2010), have shaken this world view. Who directed this development? Is it a matter of human error or technical failure? For the answer, approaches from the natural sciences and the humanities are presented.Table of Contents Preface.- . 1 Four selected accident events.- 2 Cause-effect structure and intentional structure.- 3 Space-time structure.- 4 Evaluation and outlook.
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Hirmer Verlag Energy Overlays: Land Art Generator Initiative
Book SynopsisEnergy Overlays provides a glimpse into our post - carbon future where energy infrastructure is seamlessly woven into the fabric of our cities as works of public art. Fifty designs use a variety of renewable energy technologies to arrive at innovative site - specific solutions. Power plants of the future will be the perfect place to have a picnic! On the foreshore of St Kilda with the skyline of Melbourne as a backdrop rises a new kind of power plant – one that merges renewable energy production with leisure , recreation, and education. Energy Overlays provides a roadmap to our sustainable future with essays about the energy transition and beautiful renderings and diagrams of more than fifty designs. The result is a city where the infrastructures that power our world are designed to be reflections of culture, where public parks provide clean electricity to the city grid, and where the art that makes our lives more vibrant and interesting is also part of the solution to climate change.
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Tectum Verlag Energy Policy in Europe: Internal Dimensions and
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JOVIS Verlag Metropole 2: Ressourcen: IBA Hamburg Entwürfe für
Book SynopsisBilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Half of mankind lives in cities and the tendency is on the increase. These people use the greater part of our energy and yet also produce the most pollutants – with far-reaching consequences for the world climate. The other way around, climate change has an impact on urban life, influencing living conditions in the city. These tremendous changes herald the departure into a new age. The International Building Exhibition Hamburg focuses on this theme, taking a detailed look at "The City in Climate Change". Volume 2 of the series "Metropolis" illuminates causes and examines previous efforts in architecture, town planning and urban development planning with the intention of reflecting on strategies and visions for a new, appropriate form of urban living.
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Steidl Publishers Jamey Stillings: ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and
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Kopernik Inc. This is TÜRKİYE: Sub Title On The Verge of Energy
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New India Publishing Agency Rural Livelihood and Food Security
Book SynopsisThe book, which is a collection of research conducted at both macro and micro levels by prominent scientists and educators from various fields, is particularly relevant in todays society due to the pressing issue of food security and livelihood. This volume includes a variety of articles that explore different aspects of food security and livelihood in different states and regions of the country, as well as on a national scale. The book employs quantitative techniques to analyze and estimate demand and supply gaps, making it particularly useful for understanding the scope of the problem. Additionally, it provides strategies for conserving food resources through proper processing and value-added techniques, which can help enhance livelihood options. The book also addresses the issue of nutritional demand-supply gaps, malnutrition, and related concerns comprehensively. Overall, this book is expected to serve as a valuable reference for researchers, planners, and public officials seeking to understand the conceptual framework of livelihood and food security and to develop practical policies for achieving food security through the attainment of livelihood security at both macro and micro levels.
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New India Publishing Agency Numericals and Short Questions in Farm
Book SynopsisThe book covers recent trends in Farm Machinery, Farm Power, Renewable energy and Engineering Mechanics. It will be beneficial to students of B.Tech Agriculture Engineering, M.Tech. Farm Machinery & Power as well as Renewable Energy.Table of Contents1. Farm Machinery. 2. Farm Power. 3. Renewable Energy. 4. Engineering Mechanics.
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River Publishers Biofuel Technologies for a Sustainable Future:
Book SynopsisThis book examines the key aspects that will define future sustainable energy systems: biofuels, green nanomaterials and the production of bioethanol and bio-hydrogen from bio-waste. Bio-based fuels are the future energy carriers for internal combustion engines as they have lower environmental impact and higher efficiency. The book clearly illustrates the requirement for a unified engineering approach based on solid mathematical and engineering principles. Aside from the ecological advantages, support for sustainable energy can help the socioeconomic situation of developing countries by providing a consistent supply of new energy along with the generation of new job opportunities. The sustainable energy applications and existing contextual investigations provide useful guidance for the broad comprehension of the significance of sustainable energy.Technical topics discussed in the book include: Thermochemical Conversion process; Catalytic conversion process; Rankine cycle; Nanomaterials; Table of ContentsPreface Participants of the reviewing process 1. Current scenario of Renewable Energy in India and its possibilities in the Future 2. Application of green nanomaterials for sustainable energy systems: A review of current status 3. Production of energy from biowaste: An overview of the underlying biological technologies 4. Coconut Shell-Based Activated Carbon Supported Metal Oxides in Catalytic Cracking Activity 5. Biofuels – Is it a Sustainable Alternative? 6. Current Research Trends on the Utilization of Mono and Hybrid nano-fluids for Solar Energy Applications 7. Modification and application of vegetable oils for Biofuels 8. A Green Automotive Industry for A Sustainable Future 9. Thermochemical conversions of contaminated biomass for sustainable phytoremediation Author Index Keyword Index
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Claeys & Casteels Publishers BV Energy Scenarios and Policy Volume II: Handbook
Book SynopsisThis book was originally published by Claeys and Casteels, now formally part of Edward Elgar Publishing. Sub-Saharan Africa is on the move. Since 2000, the region has seen rapid economic growth (with real GDP growth rates outperforming other major regional economic blocs), improving social conditions (with falling infant mortality rates and rising life expectancies) and progressive political liberalization (if in the 1990s only about 5% of African nations were considered to be democracies, today only a handful of the 55 African states do not have a multiparty constitutional system). Notwithstanding the fact that Africa’s energy sector is vital to its socio-economic development, this remains one of the most poorly understood parts of the global energy system. This book seeks to contribute to the understanding of such a topical issue, by providing an analysis of the current trends and future prospects of sub-Saharan energy markets. Issues covered include patterns of energy production, demand and trade; energy investments; energy infrastructure; energy access; energy and development; regional energy cooperation; the role of China in Africa’s energy.
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IAEA Energy, Electricity and Nuclear Power Estimates
Book SynopsisThe 43rd edition of Reference Data Series No. 1 contains estimates of energy, electricity, and nuclear power trends up to the year 2050. The publication considers the prospects of new capacity additions, retirements and long term operation of existing units. The 2022 capacity and production data is taken from Nuclear Power Reactors in the World, Reference Data Series No. 2, IAEA, Vienna (2023). RDS-1 is organized into world and regional subsections, with global and regional nuclear power projections presented as low and high cases, encompassing the uncertainties inherent in projecting trends. The low case assumes a continuation of current market and technology trends leading to a modest increase in in global nuclear capacity to 458 GWe by 2050. The high case assumes a more favourable context and leads to a more than doubling of global nuclear power capacity to 890 GWe by 2050. Despite the increasing recognition of nuclear power's role in climate change mitigation and energy security improvement, the current pace of nuclear power development shows that urgent actions would be needed to maintain the existing role of nuclear power in the energy mix, involving a broad range of actors including policy makers, the nuclear industry, the financing community, and international organizations, along with active engagement with the public.
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United Nations Carbon neutrality in the UNECE region: technology
Book SynopsisThis publication calls for ambitious and bold action from governments, the private sector and regulators. Development of technologies will require new regulatory frameworks to support immediate commercialisation. Policy frameworks should also incorporate legally binding commitments for increased international technology transfer, harmonized standards, and definitions for 'green' hydrogen, energy efficiency, and conservation. All decisions should be assessed against existing and upcoming net-zero and climate neutrality targets, with all energy infrastructure built to be net-zero compliant. Integrating innovative energy technologies, alongside the transformation of energy markets and downstream industries, is a challenge and an opportunity
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United Nations Energy transition and the post-COVID-19
Book SynopsisThere are several pathways through which energy systems are transitioning to a decarbonised, sustainable economy. The development and implementation of these technologies are being driven by innovation in a wide variety of technologies. Now that most economies are emerging, governments are focused on driving a sustainable socioeconomic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is an endemic issue which must be addressed. The energy sector is missing out on the experiences, skills, and talents of much of half the human population, which severely constrains the sustainable energy transition. In addition to a larger skilled workforce, there are several advantages in bridging the gender gap within the energy sector. Gender disparities in the energy sector have been observed around the world. Women are less represented in policymaking, corporate leadership and governance, as entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, and in the labour workforce. These barriers are surmountable using a two-way complementary approach, which is simultaneously bottom-up - action by women and society to bridge the gap of gender inequality in the energy sector - and top-down - government and policymakers need to develop policy tools to encourage women's participation in the energy sector. This paper is summarising key findings from a report and empirical case studies of five United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) member States: Albania, Belarus, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan
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Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Sustainable bioenergy potential in Zambia: an
Book SynopsisThis report defines which bioenergy options can be viable solutions for electricity production, cooking fuels and transport fuels in Zambia. Possible options originating from crop residues, livestock residues and forest plantation harvesting residues are identified
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United Nations Environment Programme Green energy choices: the benefits, risks and
Book SynopsisThe Regional State of Coast Report for the western Indian Ocean (WIO) is the first comprehensive regional synthesis to provide insights into the enormous economic potential around the WIO, the consequential demand for marine ecosystem goods and services to match the increasing human population, the pace and scale of environmental changes taking place in the region and the opportunities to avoid serious degradation in one of the world's unique and highly biodiverse oceans.
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New India Publishing Agency Pyrolysis of Biomass: Science and Technology
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New India Publishing Agency Biomass Management for Fodder and Energy
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New India Publishing Agency Rural Livelihood and Food Security
Book SynopsisThe book is the compilation of the research work conducted at macro/micro levels by eminent scientists and teachers of the country with diverse specializations. These scientists/teachers have willingly contributed their work in the form of the articles to this volume addressing various dimensions of the food security and livelihood scenario in various states of the country and the country as a whole. The book is most relevant in the present day owing to the fact that the food security and livelihood is the priority issue confronting the country, as also it demonstrates the use of quantitative techniques in estimating demand and supply gaps. The strategies for conservation of the food energies through proper processing and their value addition for enhancing livelihood options has been taken care of. The nutritional demand-supply gaps, malnutrition and other related issues are also addressed comprehensively. The book is expected to serve as a reference material for the researchers, planners and the public representatives for understanding the conceptual frame of livelihood and food security besides devising pragmatic policies in achieving the food security through attainment of livelihood security at macro and micro levels.Table of Contents1. Imagining and imaging India: Random reflections on Field notes on Democracy: listening to rasshoppers by C.R. Visweswara Rao. 2. Theme of Loneliness in Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate by S. Krishna Sarma. 3. Subaltern subjectivity and resistance: Dalit social history in post-colonial Indian fiction in English by Mittapalli Rajeshwar. 4. Fifty Turbulent Years of Independent India in Gita Mehta's Snames and Ladders by J. Yellaiah and K.V. Ramana Chjary. 5. Vijay Tendulkar's Silence! The Court is in Session: A conflict between innocence and Cruelty by P. Obula Reddy and Hussainvali Shaik. 6. Into the lap of eternity on the Ganga Ghat by B. Parvathi. 7. Social and sexual conflicts in Ismat Chughtai's The Crooked Line by C.L.L. Jayaprada and D. Suvarna Suni. 8. The period of renaissance in Telugu literature by Madhuranthakam Narendra. 9. Yogic realism: the Indian story tradition by K. Suma Kirana. 10. History as fiction in Chaman Nahal's The Triumph of the Tricolour by G. Chenna Reddy. 11. Mulkraj Anand's untouchable: a reflection of Dalit consciousness by T. Pratap Reddy. 12. Interculturation in Bhabani Bhattacharya's A Dream in Hawaii by R. Poli Reddy. 13. Race, class and gender as postcolonial constructs: the triple identity of African American women in Toni Morrison's Sula by Hari Prasanna. 14. Black feminist consciousness: Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place by T. Jeevan Kumar. 15. Thomas Pynchon: the post modern novelist by G.V. Sudhakar. 16. The Ironic mode as a textural principle in T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock and Sweeney among The Nightingales by V. Gopal Reddy. 17. Margaret Drabble and women's world by V.V.N. Rajendra Prasad and M. Durga Bhavani. 18. Othello: a feminist and post colonial reading by N. Ramadevi. 19. Antigone and Joan: individual versus institution by T. Viswanadha Rao. 20. The game of art and the game of life: a study of Luigi Pirandello by R. Saraswathi. 21. Identity, subjectivity and voice: a reading of Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe by Vijayasree. 22. Reconciliation an equipment for living: a study of Flora Nwapa's fiction by K. Nirupa Rani and J. Lalitha Sridevi. 23. Post-colonial consciousness in V.S. Naipaul's the The Mimic Men by V.R. Badiger. 24. K.S. Maniam: finding a center and appropriating Language in Malaysian context by N. Usha. 25. Dilemmas of the double hyphenated: Arnold Harrichand/Harrichand Itwaru's Unreturning Indira. II. Literary theory and English Language Teaching: 26. Dreams and their relations by K. Narayana Chandran. 27. Gaps and leaps: literary translation as a mediating means of inter/cross cultural and linguistic communication: a case study by Ch. A. Rajendra Prasad. 28. New historicism: a Greenblattian model by P. Suneetha. 29. Using authentic materials for instruction at secondary level in Government schools by G. Damodar and T. Sarath Babu. 30. Soft skills through Indian narrative tradition for curricular development by Sumita Roy. 31. Teaching English at higher level: a paradigm shift by P. Padma. 32. Conversation: a social skill by Y. Somalatha. 33. Teaching English using technology by V. Swarnalatha.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Sustainable Energy Transition In South Asia:
Book SynopsisWith South Asia's growing energy demand, governments in the region are facing the short-term pressures of facilitating energy access, while attempting to formulate long-term sustainable strategies. This book explores how the key economies of South Asia are addressing issues such as the diversification of energy consumption profiles and import sources, investments in renewables, enabling universal energy access, challenges to regional energy cooperation, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and the policy changes that can foster bilateral and multilateral action.As governments seek to ensure access to affordable, reliable, secure, sustainable and modern energy, trends and drivers are emerging and shaping the South Asian energy landscape. The first section of the book examines energy trends at the regional level, while the second section focuses on the internal and external challenges faced by India — the largest energy consumer in the region and the third-largest energy consumer in the world.The diverse perspectives in this volume provide a holistic snapshot of South Asia's ongoing low-carbon energy transition, and highlight the importance of the region working collectively to navigate the many obstacles.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Electricity: Humanity's Low-carbon Future -
Book SynopsisClimate change is no longer deniable. Neither is the fact that greenhouse gas emissions due to human activities need to be mitigated. The question is how to rapidly transit to an increasingly low-carbon world while essentially sustaining the quality of life of the fortunate and providing better lives for the less fortunate.The challenge is to decarbonize both energy consumption and production with electricity at the core of energy systems.Perhaps Energia, a fictitious country whose 50 million inhabitants endorse climate change objectives and that embodies the energy mutations proposed by the authors, has the answers. Along with Energia, four families living in Africa, America, Asia and Europe who represent us, the consumer, set the stage for the book's discussions.On the user front, the presentation primarily focuses on energy consumption at home and for transport. On the energy production front, the focus shifts to the integration of renewables with fossil and nuclear energy. The book's coverage includes crucial systemic issues related to energy storage, electric power systems and multi-energy systems. In a dedicated chapter, the authors put forward their energy and environmental public policy observations and proposals, including a carbon fee scheme.Electricity is written for readers interested and concerned by the environmental and energy challenges we face, and who seek to participate, as well-informed citizens, in discussions on future energy-related options. The book provides a balanced, factual and unemotional presentation of readily available energy systems and technologies which, when widely deployed, can contribute, both short and long term, toward a low-carbon and electricity-centered world.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Electricity: Humanity's Low-carbon Future -
Book SynopsisClimate change is no longer deniable. Neither is the fact that greenhouse gas emissions due to human activities need to be mitigated. The question is how to rapidly transit to an increasingly low-carbon world while essentially sustaining the quality of life of the fortunate and providing better lives for the less fortunate.The challenge is to decarbonize both energy consumption and production with electricity at the core of energy systems.Perhaps Energia, a fictitious country whose 50 million inhabitants endorse climate change objectives and that embodies the energy mutations proposed by the authors, has the answers. Along with Energia, four families living in Africa, America, Asia and Europe who represent us, the consumer, set the stage for the book's discussions.On the user front, the presentation primarily focuses on energy consumption at home and for transport. On the energy production front, the focus shifts to the integration of renewables with fossil and nuclear energy. The book's coverage includes crucial systemic issues related to energy storage, electric power systems and multi-energy systems. In a dedicated chapter, the authors put forward their energy and environmental public policy observations and proposals, including a carbon fee scheme.Electricity is written for readers interested and concerned by the environmental and energy challenges we face, and who seek to participate, as well-informed citizens, in discussions on future energy-related options. The book provides a balanced, factual and unemotional presentation of readily available energy systems and technologies which, when widely deployed, can contribute, both short and long term, toward a low-carbon and electricity-centered world.
£33.25
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Energy: What About It?
Book SynopsisEnergy has been both a driving force behind human civilizations and the source of so many conflicts and wars around the world. Today, it remains a major element which guides both economic and political decisions. Yet despite its huge influence on human life, energy remains an immense subject which is, in many ways, a purely abstract one to most of us; after all, nobody has actually seen what a kilowatt-hour looks like (though we may have seen what its output can do in the form of the appliances it powers).This book is designed to provide readers with a general understanding of energy. No background in related fields in higher education are needed. It explores the topic by beginning with what 'energy' means and where it comes from; the different forms of energy we currently known and when they were discovered; as well as the innovative breakthroughs and historical milestones which followed their discovery. It then expounds on how each newly discovered form of energy with the use of increased scientific and engineering knowhow needed for these discoveries, and their impacts that have powered our evolution of human civilizations, before arriving at the central concern of the 21st century: how long will humanity's access to energy last?
£42.75
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd World's Transition Toward A Green Economy:
Book SynopsisThis book treats different themes which are intrinsically linked and of extreme significance for the entire global community such as the necessity to cut emissions and transit toward a more sustainable and green economy. The content extends to the urgency to shape a new multilateralism and reinforce cooperation to achieve global goods, where the environment comes first, to the green finance which will play a fundamental role for the green transition paying particular attention to the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.A particular emphasis is given to the so-called 'Dual Circulation Strategy' (DCS) which is presently becoming the priority not only for China but also for the rest of the global community. Due to the uncertainties caused by the pandemic and other external factors, China has substituted GDP growth with the so-called six guarantees (liù bǎo 六保) which represent the six fundamental aspects of the economy and society that according to the central government must receive priority attention, and protection in economic policy to ensure economic recovery. China also introduced the concept of an 'ecological civilization' (shēngtài wénmíng 生态文明) through green, low-carbon economic development. One of the targets is to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, though the rest of the global community and in particular the European Union with its Green Deal, and the US with its renewed climate policies, are pushing to reach this objective in 2050.In order to grant all these developments, 'green finance' plays a fundamental role for the success of this green transition. Therefore, a substantial part of this book explores the many aspects surrounding this theme. Due to renewables playing a very important role in the green transition, the final part of this book explores investment opportunities related to the development of these alternative sources of energy.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Environmental And Resource Economics: Theory And
Book SynopsisModern society is currently facing a cascade of environmental crises. Moving forward, it will be the job of current and future generations to develop sound and creative approaches to addressing them. This book attempts to provide insight into the ways in which society can confront modern agricultural, environmental, and resource challenges. In particular, it provides an economic lens with which to examine and confront these issues. The first part of the book introduces a general economic framework that can be used to analyze these issues. Subsequent chapters rely on this framework to introduce and explain specific concepts in agricultural, environmental, and resource economics, including (but not limited to) non-renewable and renewable resource management, pesticide use, and climate change. The book develops quantitative tools that the readership can use to analyze and better understand the complexities of these challenges. Each chapter includes specific applications, and an accompanying Appendix includes a longer list of practice problems that can be brought into courses as exercises.Resources are available to instructors who adopt this book. More details at www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/13304-sm
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Environmental And Resource Economics: Theory And
Book SynopsisModern society is currently facing a cascade of environmental crises. Moving forward, it will be the job of current and future generations to develop sound and creative approaches to addressing them. This book attempts to provide insight into the ways in which society can confront modern agricultural, environmental, and resource challenges. In particular, it provides an economic lens with which to examine and confront these issues. The first part of the book introduces a general economic framework that can be used to analyze these issues. Subsequent chapters rely on this framework to introduce and explain specific concepts in agricultural, environmental, and resource economics, including (but not limited to) non-renewable and renewable resource management, pesticide use, and climate change. The book develops quantitative tools that the readership can use to analyze and better understand the complexities of these challenges. Each chapter includes specific applications, and an accompanying Appendix includes a longer list of practice problems that can be brought into courses as exercises.Resources are available to instructors who adopt this book. More details at www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/13304-sm
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World Scientific Publishing Company Energy Transition And The Struggle For Global
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Energy Transition and Energy Democracy in East
Book SynopsisThis is an open access book.The subject of this book is to provide down-to-earth information on what kind of actions are being taken by the Government, Local community, Businesses, Researchers, NGOs on the energy transition in this region. It gives an updated picture of the energy transition in the East Asian countries, where the economic growth, as well as CO2 emission growth, is significant.This book focuses not only on the technological perspective of the energy transition but also on the relationship between democracy and energy transition. Readers of this book can understand what kind of international support and pressure is needed to promote the energy transition in this region.Since energy transition is needed not only for combatting climate change but also for the Green Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, publishing this book is very helpful to promote the Green Recovery and the Green New Deal world-widely.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Challenging the Transition of Civilization – Theory and Practice of “Energy Democracy.- Chapter 2. Global Trend - How to overcome a combination of crises?.- Chapter 3. Energy Democracy for Energy Transition in South Korea?: Focusing on Politicization of Media.- Chapter 4. China’s Energy Transition: How to Overcome Financial, Societal, and Institutional Challenges in the Long Term.- Chapter 5. Energy Democracy and Energy Transition in Taiwan.- Chapter 6. Japanese Green New Deal to Bring Happiness and Prosperity.- Chapter 7. Transboundary cooperative governance toward energy transition in East Asia, A review of historical development and future perspective.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Energy In The 21st Century (2nd Edition)
Book SynopsisEnergy may be the most important factor that will influence the shape of society in the 21st century. The cost and availability of energy significantly impacts our quality of life, the health of national economies, the relationships between nations, and the stability of our environment. What kind of energy do we want to use in our future? Will there be enough? What will be the consequences of our decisions? Everyone has a stake in the answers to these questions and the decisions that are being made to provide energy.Energy in the 21st Century, in its second edition, examines the energy sources that play a vital role in society today, as well as those that may be the primary energy sources of tomorrow. From our reliance on fossil fuels to the quest for energy independence, and the environmental issues that follow each decision, this book delves into the most prominent energy issues of our time. Armed with this information, the reader can think critically about the direction they want this world to take.Table of ContentsA Brief History of Energy Consumption; Fossil Energy - Coal; Fossil Energy - Oil and Gas; Peak Oil; Nuclear Energy; Renewable Energy - Solar Energy; Renewable Energy - Wind Energy; Renewable Energy - Energy from Water; Renewable Energy - Bioenergy and Synfuels; Energy Carrier, Energy Storage and Hybrid Energy Systems; Electricity Generation and Distribution; Energy Economics; Future Issues - Geopolitics of Energy; Future Issues - Energy Forecasts.
£108.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Energy In The 21st Century (2nd Edition)
Book SynopsisEnergy may be the most important factor that will influence the shape of society in the 21st century. The cost and availability of energy significantly impacts our quality of life, the health of national economies, the relationships between nations, and the stability of our environment. What kind of energy do we want to use in our future? Will there be enough? What will be the consequences of our decisions? Everyone has a stake in the answers to these questions and the decisions that are being made to provide energy.Energy in the 21st Century, in its second edition, examines the energy sources that play a vital role in society today, as well as those that may be the primary energy sources of tomorrow. From our reliance on fossil fuels to the quest for energy independence, and the environmental issues that follow each decision, this book delves into the most prominent energy issues of our time. Armed with this information, the reader can think critically about the direction they want this world to take.Table of ContentsA Brief History of Energy Consumption; Fossil Energy - Coal; Fossil Energy - Oil and Gas; Peak Oil; Nuclear Energy; Renewable Energy - Solar Energy; Renewable Energy - Wind Energy; Renewable Energy - Energy from Water; Renewable Energy - Bioenergy and Synfuels; Energy Carrier, Energy Storage and Hybrid Energy Systems; Electricity Generation and Distribution; Energy Economics; Future Issues - Geopolitics of Energy; Future Issues - Energy Forecasts.
£45.60
Institute for Southeast Asian Studies Renewable Energy: Malaysia’s Climate Change
Book SynopsisMalaysia pledged to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 in relation to its 2005 GDP figure. The sectors listed as the main focus of this effort included: energy, industrial processes, waste, agriculture, land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF). Several initiatives under myriad governments have been launched to reduce Malaysia’s climate change impacts; among those has been the emphasis on renewable energy (RE). Malaysia’s current energy mix relies heavily on coal and natural gas. Long-entrenched subsidies on these energy sources, coupled with greatly depreciating prices make it difficult for new RE producers to enter the market and increase their market share. This is in spite of positive developments in RE infrastructure and reduced RE material costs. Solar, biogas, biomass and mini-hydro have been put forward as the RE sources with the most potential, but all have issues of consistency and reliability. Because small energy generators cannot guarantee infallible energy production, they may not be the most viable options for the long term. Their size also denies them the economies of scale that would reduce their costs. Instead, these higher costs may be transferred to the consumer. Other issues include the competition for land in the development of large-scale solar farms, including the possible loss of community farmlands and hence livelihoods, if not displacement. A push for biomass and biogas as a source of energy might also lead to increased oil palm production to meet the need for consistent supplies of oil palm waste. Biogas from municipal landfills is made even more challenging given that Malaysian municipal waste is not sorted at source. One possible solution is the use of hybrid RE in rural areas, comprising a mix of micro-hydro, solar and diesel-based energy generation as a back-up. However an immediate win is to ensure energy efficiency and public education to encourage emissions reduction and climate change impacts on the individual consumer.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Pore Scale Phenomena: Frontiers In Energy And
Book SynopsisThe field of pore scale phenomena is now emerging as one of the frontiers of science and many engineering disciplines. Transport phenomena in the subsurface of the earth play key roles in the energy and environmental domains. For example, the shale gas and oil boom is revolutionizing the world's energy portfolio. Pore scale phenomena from the nanoscale to mesoscale dominate the extraction of these resources. Similarly in the environmental domain, pore storage and pore-scale physics affect the availability of water resources and protecting its quality. Water flow and vapor transport in the pores near the land surface is critical to understanding soil water evaporation in the context of local and global hydrologic cycles affecting climate and climate change.Pore scale phenomena similarly play critical roles in the domain of materials science and biology. For example, many energy devices and membrane technologies are controlled by the physical and chemical properties of the pores. Identifying and analyzing the properties of these pores has emerged as a frontier of characterization science.This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the fascinating interrelationship between engineering and science. The authors and contributors are recognized experts from the faculty of the Colorado School of Mines, Northwestern and Stanford. This book will appeal to earth and environmental scientists, materials scientists, physicists and chemists.Table of ContentsEarth Sciences: Subsurface Pores, Physics of Flow in Petroleum Reservoirs; Rock Physics; Surface Forces; Microfluidic Analogs; Hydrates in Porous Media; Hydrogeology: Moving from Laboratory to the Field; Chemical Reactions; Multiphase Systems; Porosity in Reactive Systems; Thermo-Hydrological Processes in Enhanced Geothermal; Materials Science, Energy, Devices and Biology: Pore Scale Phenomena and Challenges in Energy Research and Technology; Structural Characterization; New Materials; Membranes for Water Treatment; Membranes for CO2 Capture; Pore Chemistry and Catalysis; Blood Flow in Interstitial Spaces;
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Solar Energy
Book SynopsisConcerns about energy resources and the environmental impact of energy use will continue to be important globally. World Scientific's unique series of books on Current Energy Issues is intended, in part, as an expansion and update of the material contained in the World Scientific Handbook of Energy. Each volume will focus on related energy resources or issues and will contain a broader range of topics with more explanatory text.This Solar Energy volume covers a variety of approaches to the use of solar energy. These include large scale photovoltaic production of electricity as well as more local applications in the home and businesses. Similarly, there is an extensive discussion of large scale solar thermal electricity production and smaller scale uses such as solar water heating, home heating and cooling plus crop drying. There is also discussion of more forward-looking technologies including the production of fuels using artificial photosynthesis and the production of biomass.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Solar Energy (Richard Corkish & Robert Patterson); Fundamentals of Photovoltaic Cells and Systems (Ignacio Rey-Stolle); Large Scale Solar Thermal Plants (M Becker, R Pitz-Paal & W Stein); Large Scale Photovoltaic Plants (G Almonacid, P G Vidal & E Munoz-Ceron); Biomass (Anthony Turhollow); Artificial Photosynthesis (Nathan Skillen and Peter KJ Robertson); Small Scale PV Applications in Home and Business (Estefania Caamano-Martin & Miguel Angel Egido-Aguilera); Small Scale Solar Thermal Applications (Brian Norton); Solar Thermo-Chemical Processes (Roman Bader & Wojciech Lipinski);
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Domestic Dynamics Of China's Energy Diplomacy,
Book SynopsisSince the beginning of the 21st century, China's energy diplomacy has been expanding rapidly and the country is searching for energy resources worldwide. This movement has not only improved China's energy security and international relations, but also enabled the Chinese national oil companies (NOCs) to access new investment markets and implement development strategies. The Chinese government and the NOCs need each other's support to realise their respective interests. The interaction between the government and the NOCs will have a critical influence on China's energy diplomacy. The Domestic Dynamics of China's Energy Diplomacy explores the long-neglected domestic dynamics of China's energy diplomacy, in particular the interaction of national and corporate interests. It argues that the convergence of national and corporate interests is the key momentum of China's energy diplomacy. It observes that the government-NOC relationship has been evolving with China's economic and enterprise reform. Finally, it tests the empirical evidence of the domestic dynamics of China's energy diplomacy against the three mainstream international political economy theories, showing their merits and shortcomings in explaining the phenomenon, before providing an alternative conceptualisation of the movement.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why Domestic Dynamics Matter; Conceptualising the Interaction of National and Corporate Interests; China's Energy Shortage; Beijing's Energy Diplomacy and Chinese NOCs' Overseas Expansion; National Interests and Corporate Interests Behind China's Energy Diplomacy; Interaction Between the Government and the NOCs; Chinese Discourses of Energy Security; Conclusion: Whither China's Energy Diplomacy?;
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Energy: Sources, Utilization, Legislation,
Book SynopsisThis 800-page premier book on energy focuses on energy sources, utilizations, legislations and sustainability as it relates to a state, a province, or a country, or a community within a state. This book presents various kinds of energy sources, ways to convert energy for end use, better use of energy towards conservation and energy- and environmental-sustainability. As a very proper model-state the authors chose the State of Illinois which has the largest overall fossil energy reserves, including the largest strippable bituminous coal reserves; the largest user of nuclear energy in USA and has also been investing in all kinds of renewable energies including wind energy, solar energy, biofuels, geothermal energy, and various energy storage options. In the authors' opinion, State of Illinois is a pioneer in legislations for proper development and use of all kinds of energy. Their motivation to do this project was to educate the public (including students, energy engineers and planers, as well as state- and country-wide policy makers) about all aspects of energy.In this book, the authors present various energy sources, conversions technologies, and conservation possibilities. In every case, the authors have presented various options available for a country, for a state, or for a community to achieve its goal of energy sufficiency, clean environment and as a result, sustainability. Variety of schemes related to each energy source and its related conversion technologies are presented and sustainability of renewable energy sources is discussed. All the possible energy sources including coal, natural gas, petroleum, nuclear, solar, wind, biofuels and geothermal energy are presented in this book, as well as energy storage options. The authors have also presented various ways of dealing with carbon dioxide, which is produced from fossil fuels combustion, including its collection, transportation, storage and sequestration. The energy storage systems presented in this book will facilitate reliable and full integration of renewable power to the grid.Table of ContentsEnergy Sources, Energy Conversions, Efficiencies, Conservation, Sustainability and Green Energy, Advanced and Nano Technologies to Achieve Sustainability; Characteristics of Coal, "Clean Air Act", Electric Power Using Clean Coal Technologies; Integrated & Hybrid Gasification Combined Cycle, Underground Coal Gasification, Environmental Concerns About Coal Technologies; Petroleum and Natural Gas Enhanced Recovery, Hydraulic Fracing, Exploration, Production, Transport, Refining, Consumption and Environmental Problems; Carbon Dioxide Emission, Capture, Sequestration and Utilization; Nuclear Energy Technologies, Fission, Fusion, Containment of Nuclear Waste, Reprocessing; Advances in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Generation Biofuels; Wind Energy, Onshore, Offshore, Small and Large Scales; Solar Energy, Photothermal and Photoelectric Technologies, Utility and Small Scales, Passive Utilization, Model Homes Experiences; Geothermal Energy Technologies for Power Generation, Heating and Air Conditioning; Energy Storage Systems for Variety of Energy (Electrical, Thermal, Hydro, Compressed Gas, Seasonal, Chemical; Sustainability Approaches, Legislation Methods for Making a Society to Save Energy;
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Fukushima Catastrophe: To What End?
Book SynopsisBased on a variety of interviews with residents, farmers, scientists, journalists, and activists who have been affected by the Fukushima catastrophe, the authors underscore the personal, political, and humanitarian impacts in testimonies, science, and photos. The book engagingly addresses diverse issues that continue to haunt and persist and calls for collective responsibility to deal with the devastating environmental, economic, and social consequences of nuclear energy. The book offers a critique of the violent history of modernism and the supremacy of science that has been articulated into all forms of social injustice and ecological injustice.Table of ContentsForeword: Not Again, Please, Never Again - Rebecca Johnson.- Foreword: Charting Contested Contours Of Sustainaiblity, Development, Social And Ecological Justice - Anita Rampal.- Introduction: No Solutions In Sight, Making Possible The Impossible - Lau Kin Chi.- Introduction: Education For Ecological Justice And Social Justice – Cultivating The Capacity For Affect, Thinking, Autonomy And Action – Lau Kin Chi.- Introduction: When We Talk About Nuclear Energy, What Are We Talking About? - Huang Xiaomei.- Introduction: We Are In A Critical State - He Zhixiong.- Preface.- Part One.- I. What Happened In Fukushima?.- Ii. Natural Disasters Or Human-Caused Calamity.- Iii. Fairy Tale Of Astro Boy.- Iv. Three Questions On Nuclear Power.- V. The Long Road Home.- Vi.Revival? Clearing Evacuees To Zero?.- Vii. Glint Of Hope Ignited By The Olympic Torch?.- Viii. Where Did Contaminated Substances Go?.- Ix. Heart Of Darkness – The Molten Reactor Core.- X.Returning To The Scene: “Back Then, How Nice It Would Have Been, If Only….”.- Xi. Absent Supervision.- Xii. Radioactive Contamination Spread Worldwide – The Threat From Nuclear-Contaminated Water.- Xiii. Who Protects Decontamination Workers And Nuclear Energy Workers?.- Xiv. Mourning Of Nature.- Xv. From Nuclear Weapon To Nuclear Energy, From Nuclear Energy To Nuclear Weapon.- Xvi. The People’s Self Rescue.- Epilogue Resonance That Lit Up The Earth.- Part Two.- What I Saw After Shooting Fukushima For 10 Years – Toyoda Naomi.- Thoughts On Nuclear Power In Fukushima, Bangladesh, Rio, And Geneva - Ohashi Masaaki.- Eight Years From The Great East Japan Earthquake: Current Situation Of Fukushima And Its Challenges - Aihara Hiroko.- Double Challenges To Japanese Farmers: The Nuclear Disaster And Transpacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement - Ando Takemasa.- Buildup Of Nuclear Armament Capability And The Post-War Statehood Of Japan: Fukushima And The Genealogy Of Nuclear Bombs And Power Plants - Muto Ichiyo.- "Obsession With Normalcy" And The World Today - Sun Ge.- Light Of The Sun Or Fire Of Purgatory: Nuclear Power Is The Destiny Of Industrial Civilization - Tian Song.
£94.99
Azhar UL Haque Sario Oxford Energy Futures 2025
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Integrity Research Institiute Zero Point Energy: The Fuel of the Future
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