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With growing concerns over climate change and air pollution, the need to switch from fossil fuels to clean and renewable sources of energy has become pressing. Here, Nick Jelley describes the main renewables, explains how wind and solar farms can provide the cheapest energy in many parts of the world, and calls for urgent action.

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A wonderful combination of a tour of the basics of renewable energy, and a great update on the ever-changing statistics in this fast changing, and world-changing energy sector. * Professor Daniel M Kammen, University of California, Berkeley *

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List of illustrations 1: What are renewables? 2: Why do we need renewables? 3: Biomass, solar heat, and hydropower 4: Wind power 5: Solar photovoltaics 6: Other low carbon technologies 7: Renewable electricity and energy storage 8: Renewable heat and electric vehicles 9: The transition to renewablesFurther readingIndex

Renewable Energy

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 27 February 2020
      ISBN-13 9780198825401
      978-0198825401
      ISBN-10 0198825404
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      Alternative and renewable energy sources

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      With growing concerns over climate change and air pollution, the need to switch from fossil fuels to clean and renewable sources of energy has become pressing. Here, Nick Jelley describes the main renewables, explains how wind and solar farms can provide the cheapest energy in many parts of the world, and calls for urgent action.

      Trade Review

      A wonderful combination of a tour of the basics of renewable energy, and a great update on the ever-changing statistics in this fast changing, and world-changing energy sector. * Professor Daniel M Kammen, University of California, Berkeley *

      Table of Contents

      List of illustrations 1: What are renewables? 2: Why do we need renewables? 3: Biomass, solar heat, and hydropower 4: Wind power 5: Solar photovoltaics 6: Other low carbon technologies 7: Renewable electricity and energy storage 8: Renewable heat and electric vehicles 9: The transition to renewablesFurther readingIndex

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