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...

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...

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...

A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts light energy into electrical energy. Sometimes the term solar cell is reserved for devi...

This book addresses the rapid developments in the new field of solar resource knowledge as a reflection of growing needs of management of renewable...

Energy is essential to our Nation and our lives; we use energy to power homes and businesses and to transport people and goods, making it an import...

This book reviews recent advanced research work in the area of flat plate collectors, solar distillation, greenhouse technology for crop drying and...

As demand for energy increases, many communities are seeking ways to meet this demand with clean, safe, reliable energy from renewable sources such...

This book develops a novel and simple, yet rigorous methodology that, by means of basic techniques and tools available to any engineer, enables the...

Among the available options for encouraging the increased deployment of renewable electricity, renewables portfolio standards (RPS) have become inc...

The states and the federal government have supported the development of electricity generation projects in a variety of ways. In recent years, stat...

Architect David Wright helped pioneer the concept of passive solar architecture, and his thoughts and experiments have helped shape the evolution o...

The commercialisation of fuel cells needs further developments in materials, power density and durability. These key issues are strongly related to...

Considers the sometimes problematic relationship between traditional and scientific wildlife management knowledge and practices: environmental ethi...

Achieving a successful transition to hydrogen-powered vehicles in the U.S. automotive market will require strong and sustained commitment by hydrog...