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    Global Sustainability: The Impact of Local Cultures, A New Perspective for Science and Engineering, Economics and Politics

    by Peter A. Wilderer, Edward D. Schroeder, Horst Kopp

    Publisher: Wiley-VCH
    Number Of Pages: 265
    Publication Date: 2005-01-31
    ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3527312366
    ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783527312368
    Binding: Hardcover

    This first book to focus on cultural diversity as a key element of sustainable development in the context of science and engineering provides cross-disciplinary information and assistance in understanding our world in transition. As such, it furnishes the global scientific community and decision makers in governmental and non-governmental institutions as well as in industry with much-needed information on how the various factors affecting sustainable development — including culture — depend on and interfere with each other.
    Featuring a contribution by the President of the Club of Rome, HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, this is vital reading for all (natural) scientists, engineers, economists, ecologists, environmental organizations, and consultants.

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    Biogas from Waste and Renewable Resources: An Introduction
    By Dieter Deublein, Angelika Steinhauser

    * Publisher: Wiley-VCH
    * Number Of Pages: 472
    * Publication Date: 2008-04-18
    * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3527318410
    * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783527318414
    * Binding: Hardcover

    Written as a practical introduction to biogas plant design and operation, this book fills a huge gap by presenting a systematic guide to this emerging technology — information otherwise only available in poorly intelligible reports by US governmental and other official agencies. The author draws on teaching material from a university course as well as a wide variety of industrial biogas projects he has been involved with, thus combining didactical skill with real-life examples. Alongside biological and technical aspects of biogas generation, this timely work also looks at safety and legal aspects as well as environmental considerations.

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    Alternative energy sources second book collection 2nd part
    PDF | 600 MB | more than 150 books

    THE SOLAR SOLUTION

    Of all the energy sources available to us, the Sun is our largest source by far, dropping 970 trillion kWh worth of free energy on us every day. Enough solar energy strikes the United States each day to supply its needs for one and a half years. Put another way, the amount of solar energy the Earth receives every minute is greater than the amount of energy from fossil fuels the world uses in a year! 1 Nearly all energy forms on Earth come from the Sun, either directly or indirectly.
    To begin with, all fossil fuels are the product of organic life - forms on Earth that drew their energy from the sun. Algae and plants harvested solar energy via photosynthesis, and after accumulating and being cooked for millennia, became the substances that we know today as oil, coal, gas, shales, tar sands, and so forth — what author Thom Hartmann has called the “ last hours of ancient sunlight. ”

    http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/engeneering_technology/solar.power.alternative.wind.energy.water.html

    Energy harvesting material
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    http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/epm_sum.html

    Executive Summary

    Generation: Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) show that September 2008 was 1.7 percent “below average consumption.” September 2007, in contrast, was the eighth warmest on record. Additionally, the Commerce Department reported that real gross domestic product decreased from the second quarter to the third quarter of 2008, and the manufacturing component of the Federal Reserve’s Industrial Production Index was down 4.8 percent compared to the September 2007 value. The relatively normal 2008 weather compared to the hot September 2007 and the decline in economic activity contributed to a September 2008 net generation level that was 5.2 percent lower than the previous year.

    Most (55.7 percent) of the 12-month decline in September levels is attributable to the fall in natural gas-fired generation. Gas-fired generation totals in two States – Texas and Mississippi – accounted for over half of this decline. Coal-fired generation in September 2008 was 4.5 percent lower than it was in September 2007. Drops in coal-fired generation in Ohio and West Virginia accounted for 37.3 percent of this decline. Net generation from conventional hydroelectric sources, however, was 12.7 percent higher than it had been in September 2007. This increase is primarily attributable to rises in Washington and New York, although Missouri’s contribution was significant as easing drought conditions contributed to State-level generation that was 465.5 percent higher than it was in September 2007. Petroleum liquid-fired generation was 17.9 percent lower compared to a year ago, with its overall share of net generation continuing to shrink. As wind-powered generation has decreased in recent months, the September 2008 generation was total was 9.5 percent lower than it was in September 2007. The September-to-September decline in Texas accounted for 74.0 percent of the national fall for wind power.

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    http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/epm_sum.html

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    Aldo V. da Rosa, "Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes"

    Academic Press | 2005-08-03 | ISBN: 0120885107 | 712 pages | PDF | 7 MB

    Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes contains the technical detail necessary to understand the engineering principles that govern renewable energy application at many different levels. Focused on the fundamental mechanisms and processes that underpin energy management, it provides students with the foundation for all energy process courses. This text is organized according to the main forms of energy - heat engines, hydrogen energy, energy from the sun, and wind and water energy - with an introductory chapter of basic energy terms. From fuel cells, electrolyzers and processes for hydrogen production to biomass and windmills the author provides the most thorough examination of all aspects of renewable energy processes.
    * Examines the fundamentals of some non-traditional energy processes and illustrates the best way to implement these processes in our modern world.
    * Appropriate for all students and professionals studying the basic mechanisms of renewable energies.
    * Clear theory and physical examples of all principles relevant to the study of renewable energy.
    * Written by an internationally recognized pioneer researcher

    http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/engeneering_technology/FundamentalsRenewableEnergyProcesses.html

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