The mysterious Unipolar Dynamo, so simple that even the earth's core has one, so powerful that it forges metal alloy billets and launches a rail gu...

This book presents topical research in the study of the economics, consumption and efficiency of household energy. Topics discussed include renovat...

With the ever-increasing worldwide demand for energy, and the looming crisis in petroleum supplies, energy storage is emerging as an important area...

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used to recover oil and natural gas from underground low permeability rock formations. Hydraulic fracturing inv...

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used to free oil and natural gas trapped underground in low-permeability rock formations by injecting a fluid u...

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...

In 2003, President George W. Bush announced the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative to accelerate the research and development of hydrogen, fuel cell and infr...

As many of the authors in this book note, the energy available in the hydrogen currently produced around the world is relatively small when compare...

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

This book covers recent advances and contributions to the area of digital signal processing. It starts with a revisit and a rewriting of the sampli...

Over the past five years, the Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences has engaged thousands of scientists around the world to study ...

Previous research on the effects of wind energy facilities on surrounding home values has been limited by small samples of relevant home-sale data ...

The U.S. pulp and paper industry consumes over $7 billion worth of purchased fuels and electricity per year. Energy efficiency improvement is an im...

Coal has long been the major fossil fuel used to produce electricity. However, coal-fired electric power plants are one of the largest sources of a...

The Hanford Site, in south-eastern Washington State, is a former nuclear defence production facility. A groundwater plume containing uranium, origi...

Book & CD-ROM. The U.S. industrial sector accounts for the largest share of energy consumption in the country, and energy efficiency improveme...

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

Today's buildings consume more energy than any other sector of the U.S. economy, including transportation and industry. The Energy Information Admi...

An insulator, also called a dielectric, is a material that resists the flow of electric current. An insulating material has atoms with tightly bond...

This book presents current research in the study of photofunctional hybrid materials having potential applications for current issues relating to e...

Many countries, reflecting very different geographies, markets, and power systems, are successfully managing high levels of variable renewable ener...