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Renewable Energy: A Very Short Introduction
Taschenbuch von Nick Jelley
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Nick Jelley is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Physics and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. His research was in nuclear and particle physics and he published many papers in this field. He was a member of the Nobel Prize winning SNO experiment, for which he was the UK group leader, and the recipient of two Institute of Physics prizes. More recently, he has carried out research on solar energy for use in the developing world. He gave lectures to Oxford physics undergraduates on Energy Studies from 2003-2014, and in 2012 a Science and Society public lecture on Renewable Energy at the University of Liverpool. His books include Energy Science (OUP, 3rd edition, 2017) and A Dictionary of Energy Science (OUP, 2017).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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 renewables

  • Further reading

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Kraftwerktechnik
Genre: Technik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Very Short Introductions
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198825401
ISBN-10: 0198825404
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Klappenbroschur
Autor: Jelley, Nick
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Abbildungen: 29 black and white illustrations
Maße: 175 x 113 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Nick Jelley
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.02.2020
Gewicht: 0,157 kg
Artikel-ID: 117476488
Über den Autor
Nick Jelley is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Physics and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. His research was in nuclear and particle physics and he published many papers in this field. He was a member of the Nobel Prize winning SNO experiment, for which he was the UK group leader, and the recipient of two Institute of Physics prizes. More recently, he has carried out research on solar energy for use in the developing world. He gave lectures to Oxford physics undergraduates on Energy Studies from 2003-2014, and in 2012 a Science and Society public lecture on Renewable Energy at the University of Liverpool. His books include Energy Science (OUP, 3rd edition, 2017) and A Dictionary of Energy Science (OUP, 2017).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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 renewables

  • Further reading

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Kraftwerktechnik
Genre: Technik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Very Short Introductions
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198825401
ISBN-10: 0198825404
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Klappenbroschur
Autor: Jelley, Nick
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Abbildungen: 29 black and white illustrations
Maße: 175 x 113 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Nick Jelley
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.02.2020
Gewicht: 0,157 kg
Artikel-ID: 117476488
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