Climate Change and the Future of Sustainability

The Impact on Renewable Resources

Muyiwa Adaramola

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781771884310
• eBook ISBN: 9781315341835
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Meteorology & Climatology

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Renewable resources such as wind, solar, and geothermal are often perceived as being the answer to the fossil fuel crisis. Ironically, however, climate change may also negatively impact on these energy sources. All forms of renewable energy are somewhat sensitive to climate variation. This new compendium looks at the impact of renewable resources on climate change from a variety of perspectives.

Contents

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1. Acknowledgment and How to Cite
2. List of Contributors
3. Introduction
4. Part I: Wind Energy and Climate Change
5. 1. Changes in Surface Wind Speed over North America from CMIP5 Model Projections and Implications for Wind Energy
6. Sujay Kulkarni and Huei-Ping Huang
7. 2. Potential Climatic Impacts and Reliability of Very Large-Scale Wind Farms
8. C. Wang and R. G. Prinn
9. Part II: Solar Energy and Climate Change
10. 3. Trends in Downward Solar Radiation at the Surface over North America from Climate Model Projections and Implications for Solar Energy
11. Gerardo Andres Saenz and Huei-Ping Huang
12. 4. Climate Change Impact on Photovoltaic Energy Output: The Case of Greece
13. Ioanna S. Panagea, Ioannis K. Tsanis, Aristeidis G. Koutroulis, and Manolis G. Grillakis
14. Part III: Hydropower and Climate Change
15. 5. Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Global Hydropower
16. Byman Hamududu and Aanund Killingtveit
17. 6. Water Constraints on European Power Supply Under Climate Change: Impacts on Electricity Prices
18. Michelle T. H. van Vliet, Stefan Vögele, and Dirk Rübbelke
19. 7. How Will Hydroelectric Power Generation Develop under Climate Change Scenarios? A Case Study in the Upper Danube Basin
20. Franziska Koch, Monika Prasch, Heike Bach, Wolfram Mauser, Florian Appel, and Markus Weber
21. Part IV: Geothermal Energy and Climate Change
22. 8. Geothermal Power Growth 1995–2013: A Comparison with Other Renewables
23. Ladislaus Rybach
24. 9. Modeling of an Air Conditioning System with Geothermal Heat Pump for a Residential Building
25. Silvia Cocchi, Sonia Castellucci, and Andrea Tucci
26. 10. Recovery of Sewer Waste Heat vs. Heat Pumps Using Borehole Geothermal Energy Storage for a Small Community Water Heating System: Comparison and Feasibility Analysis
27. Shahryar Garmsiri, Seama Kouhi, and Marc A. Rosen
28. Part V: Efficiency and Feasibility of Renewable Energies
29. 11. Development of a Wind Directly Forced Heat Pump and Its Efficiency Analysis
30. Ching-Song Jwo, Zi-Jie Chien, Yen-Lin Chen, and Chao-Chun Chien
31. 12. The Feasibility of Wind and Solar Energy Application for Oil and Gas Offshore Platform
32. Y. K. Tiong, M. A. Zahari, S. F. Wong, and S. S. Dol
33. 13. Economic Feasibility Analysis of the Application of Geothermal Energy Facilities to Public Building Structures
34. Sangyong Kim, Young Jun Jang, Yoonseok Shin, and Gwang-Hee Kim
35. Author Notes
36. Index

Acknowledgment and How to Cite

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The editor and publisher thank each of the authors who contributed to this book. The chapters in this book were previously published elsewhere. To cite the work contained in this book and to view the individual permissions, please refer to the citation at the beginning of each chapter. Each chapter was carefully selected by the editor; the result is a book that looks at the impact of renewable resources on climate change from a variety of perspectives. The chapters included are broken into five sections, which describe the following topics:

• In chapter 1, Kulkarni and Huang deduce the centennial trends in the surface wind speed over North America from global climate model simulations and project that the current estimate of wind power potential for North America based on present-day climatology will not be significantly changed by the greenhouse gas forcing in the coming decades.
• In chapter 2, Wang and Prinn conclude that the intermittency of wind power on daily, monthly and longer time scales as computed in their simulations and inferred from their meteorological observations, poses a demand for one or more options to ensure reliability, including backup generation capacity, very long distance power transmission lines, and on-site energy storage, although each will have economic and/or technological challenges.
• In chapter 3, Saenz and Huang quantify the extent to which changes in atmospheric processes affect the downward solar radiation at the surface, as directly calculated by their climate models.
• In chapter 4, Panagea and her colleagues examine the relative contributions of temperature and irradiance, and predict a significant reduction due to the temperature increase, which will be, however, outweighed by the irradiance increase, resulting in an overall increase in photovoltaic systems.
• In chapter 5, Hamududu and Killingtveit evaluate the changes in global hydropower generation resulting from predicted changes in climate.
• In chapter 6, Dr. van Vliet and her colleagues examine the impact of climate change on water availability, and water temperature on electricity production and prices, using simulations of daily river flows and water temperatures under future climate to show declines in both thermoelectric and hydropower generating potential.
• In chapter 7, Dr. Koch and her colleagues calculate the hydroelectric power generation on a high temporal resolution of one hour for single hydropower plants within a large scale catchment, concluding that all hydropower plants of their studied watershed can be considered in a parallel way.
• In chapter 8, Dr. Rybach presents global statistical data on the current status of deep geothermal resource utilization for electricity generation.
• In chapter 9, Dr. Cocchi and her colleagues develop a model in order to simulate an air conditioning system with geothermal heat pump.
• In chapter 10, Dr. Garmsiri and colleagues compare sewer waste heat recovery with heat pumps using geothermal energy storage systems for a small community shared water heating system including commercial and institutional buildings, finding that the sewer heat exchanger method is relatively economical, since it has the smallest rate of return on investment for the selected community size.
• In chapter 11, Dr. Jwo and colleagues propose a new technique to directly adopt the wind force to drive heat pump systems, which could effectively reduce the energy conversion losses during the processes of wind force energy converting to electric energy and electric energy converting to kinetic energy.
• In chapter 12, Tiong and colleagues focus on the capability of renewable wind and solar energy in generating power for offshore application.
• In chapter 13, Kim and colleagues present an efficient plan for the application of a geothermal energy facility at the building structure planning phase.

List of Contributors

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Florian Appel

VISTA GmbH, Remote Sensing in Geosciences, Gabelsbergerstrasse 51, Munich 80333, Germany

Heike Bach

VISTA GmbH, Remote Sensing in Geosciences, Gabelsbergerstrasse 51, Munich 80333, Germany

Sonia Castellucci

CIRDER, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, via San Camillo de Lellis, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

Yen-Lin Chen

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 10608, Taiwan

Chao-Chun Chien

Department of Energy ...

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