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Title: |
Advances in Energy Research |
| Sub-title: |
Volume 1 |
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| Edited by: |
Morena J Acosta |
| ISBN10-13: |
1616689943 : 9781616689940 |
| Illustrations: |
tables, graphs, diagrams, illus. |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
180x260mm |
| Pages: |
325 |
| Weight: |
.704 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - July 2011 |
| List Price: |
140.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
Energy technology & engineering |
| This book presents a comprehensive review of renewable energy sources, the environment and sustainable development. This includes all the renewable energy technologies, materials and their development, energy efficiency systems, energy conservation scenarios, energy savings and other mitigation measures necessary to reduce climate change. Also explored in this volume is ocean energy, its benefits and barriers and solar radiation as a primary daytime source of energy. Various scenarios are extrapolated in order to assess the potential environmental impact of increasing world population and consumption throughout the 21st century and a general overview of the world-wide trend in fossil fuels. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; Tropical Cyclone -- Ocean Interaction: Numerical Studies; The Future of Energy: The Global Challenge; Tropical Cyclone -- Ocean Interaction: Climatology; Sunlight & Skylight Availability; The Inevitability of Continuing Global Anthropogenic Environmental Degradation; General Overview for Worldwide Trend of Fossil Fuels; Scenario Discovery & Temporal Analysis for Energy Consumption Forecasting of the Brazilian Amazon Power Suppliers; An Efficient Low Power Scheduling for Heterogeneous Dual-Core Embedded Real-Time Systems; Physical Formulation of the Expression of Wind Power; Estimating Energy Consumption & Execution Time of Embedded System Applications; Index. |
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