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Introduction to Renewable Energy, Second Edition covers the fundamentals of renewable energy and serves as a resource to undergraduates in renewable energy courses, non-specialists within the energy industries, or anyone working to support the successful implementation of renewable energy.The second edition discusses developments that have occurred
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8
Introduction
to
Renewable
Energy
Another
useful
idea
is
doubling
time,
T
2,
for
exponential
growth,
which
can
be
calculated
by
T
2
=
69
R
(1.1)
where:
R
is
the
%
growth
per
unit
time
Doubling
times
for
some
different
year
rates
are
given
in
Table 1.3.
There
are
numerous
historical
examples
of
growth:
population,
2
%
–3
%
/year;
gasoline
consumption,
3
%
/year;
world
production
of
oil,
5
%
–7
%
/year;
and
electri-
cal
consumption,
7
%
/year.
If
we
plot
the
value
per
year
for
smaller
rates
of
growth
(Figure 1.4),
the
curve
would
be
the
same
as
Figure 1.3,
only
the
timescale
along
TABLE
1.3
Doubling
Times
for
Different
Rates
of
Growth
Growth
(
%
/year)
Doubling
Time
Years
1
69
2
35
3
23
4
18
5
14
6
12
7
10
8
8
9
8
10
7
15
5
0
2
4
6
8
10
0
1000
2000
Population
(10
9
)
Year
FIGURE
1.4
World
population
showing
exponential
growth.