Renewable fuels, such as wind, solar, biomass, tides, and geothermal, are inexhaustible, indigenous, and often free. However, capturing them and transforming them into electricity, hydrogen, or clean transporation fuels often is not. Green Energy: Technology, Economics, and Policy addresses how to approach and apply technology, economics, and

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Yes, you can access Green Energy by U. Aswathanarayana, Tulsidas Harikrishnan, Thayyib S. Kadher-Mohien, U. Aswathanarayana,Tulsidas Harikrishnan,Thayyib S. Kadher-Mohien in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Civil Engineering. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Technology & Engineering

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Civil Engineering

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Technology & Engineering

Front Cover
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Foreword
List of Contributors
Units, Abbreviations and Acronyms, Definitions, Conversion Constants
Section 1. Introduction
Section 2. Renewable energy technologies
Chapter 1. Renewables and climate change
Chapter 2. Wind power
Chapter 3. Solar energy
Chapter 4. Biomass
Chapter 5. Hydropower
Chapter 6. Geothermal energy
Chapter 7. Tidal power
Chapter 8. Deployment of renewable energy technologies (RETs)
Section 3. Supply-side energy technologies
Chapter 9. Fossil fuels and CCS
Chapter 10. Nuclear power
Chapter 11. Next generation green technologies
Chapter 12. Algal biofuels
Section 4. Demand-side energy technologies
Chapter 13. Industry
Chapter 14. Buildings & Appliances
Chapter 15. Transport
Chapter 16. Electricity systems
Section 5. Making green energy competitive
Chapter 17. Roadmaps and phases of development of low-carbon energy technologies
Chapter 18. Deployment and role of technology learning
Chapter 19. Energy efficiency and energy taxation
Chapter 20. Energy economics and markets
Chapter 21. Renewable energy policy
Section 6. A green new deal
Chapter 22. Goals of the green new deal
Chapter 23. Ways of “greening the economy"
Chapter 24. Poverty, environment and climate change
Section 7. Overview and integration
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