Geothermal energy is a form of renewable energy derived from heat deep in the earth's crust. Enormous amounts of thermal energy are continuously ge...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their impacts on global warming have become one of the key issues of major concern in this century. Numerous res...

Today, the energy sources used to create electricity differ in many ways, including in their environmental impacts. In the United States, electrici...

Bioenergy is renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources. It is a synonym to biofuel, which is fuel derived from...

The cars which emit no greenhouse gases or creates no pollution... Cell phones and laptops working for a long time with a single cartridge without ...

In a world faced with massive and ever-growing energy demands where the environment is an important factor, an array of new technologies and or fue...

In his 2003 State of the Union address, President Bush announced a hydrogen initiative to reverse America's growing dependence on foreign oil and i...

The United States has produced clean, renewable electricity from hydropower for more than 100 years, but hydropower-producing facilities represent ...

This book presents the latest research findings in modern technological developments based on synthetic chemicals that are highly toxic to the huma...

Among the oil-bearing tree species, Jatropha curcas is currently becoming an interesting crop for the production of biodiesel due to some of its in...

Recommendations for the establishment of unified principles for the efficiency estimation of renewable energy sources (RES) technologies and long-t...

The book first discusses the variety of sleep disorders in Huntington's Disease, as well as how sleep quality can be associated with other importan...

Owing to their vast diversity and high growth rate, microalgae offer numerous advantages as the most promising photosynthetic organisms for biofuel...

Large scale production and consumption of biofuel is being promoted by many nations because of its potential for economic, political, and environme...

Offshore wind power is poised to deliver an essential contribution to a clean, robust and diversified U.S. energy portfolio. Capturing and using th...

Hybrid organic and inorganic perovskites (HOIP) have shown remarkable progress since the first realisation of efficient PSCs with a PCE of 3.9% in ...

Photovoltaics (PV) is the field of technology and research related to the application of solar cells for energy by converting sun energy directly i...

The world of nanotechnology has opened a vast array of novel frontiers in materials science, by the exploitation of the properties and phenomena at...

This book presents current research in fuel cells which are growing in importance as sources of sustainable energy and are forming part of the chan...

Solar energy is derived ultimately from the sun. It can be divided into direct and indirect categories. Most energy sources on Earth are forms of i...

Among other things, this book analyzes the energy losses in transformation systems composed of parallel transformers and proposes a method – known ...

The United States faces important decisions about future energy supply and use. A key question is how renewable energy resources might be used to m...

Inside a decade, the availability of our conventional fuels will be doubtful. It is already late, then, to consider what sources we should develop....

Climate change and foreseen high fuel prices play an important role in the development of alternative energy sources. Renewable energy concerns the...

All over the world, there has been much outcry about the character of the global climate, which has been changing rapidly and has recently posed a ...

Contribution of renewable energy to human life is essential for sustainable life on Earth. The renewable energy industry is growing rapidly to fulf...

An electric power system is a network of electrical components used to supply, transmit and use electric power. Burning coal produces sulphur, nitr...

Concerns over reliance on imported oil and greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel use have led to increased interest in producing electricity fr...

Now is the time to plan for the integration of significant quantities of distributed renewable energy into the electricity grid. Concerns about cli...

Now is the time to plan for the integration of significant quantities of distributed renewable energy into the electricity grid. Concerns about cli...

Now is the time to plan for the integration of significant quantities of distributed renewable energy into the electricity grid. Concerns about cli...

Green marketing -- a marketing strategy highlighting the environmental attributes of a product -- dates back to the 1970s but began to flourish in ...

This book aims to provide a friendly and comprehensive tool in the study of the key issues of Renewable Energy Systems, in order to gain a deeper i...

Federal policy has played a key role in the emergence of the U.S. biofuels industry. Policy measures have included minimum renewable fuel usage req...

This book examines the role of renewable energy certificates in new renewable energy projects. For more than a decade, renewable energy certificate...

This book is an overview of the Solar Energy Technologies Program in the U.S. The U.S. Department of Energy is committed to "discovering the soluti...