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Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future

Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future

by Godfrey Boyle (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

    $3.25
Synopsis

The prospect of producing clean, sustainable power in substantial quantities from renewable energy sources is arousing renewed interest world-wide. This is a comprehensive overview of the principal renewable energy sources: solar thermal; biomass; tidal; wave; photovoltaic; hydro; wind; geothermal. With the aid of detailed illustrations and tables of data, it explains the physical and technological principles underlying each source and examines its environmental impact and future prospects.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 496
 Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 07 Mar 1996
ISBN 10: 0198564511
ISBN 13: 9780198564515

Media Reviews
It is again a pleasure to read, beautifully produced, with excellent photographs, superb graphics and clear, lucid and careful explanations in the text . . . . This is an outstanding undergraduate level textbook which deserves to become the standard text. I can only urge all those who are
teaching courses in the field and all students, formal or otherwise, to read and treasure this book. --The Times Higher Education Supplement
A comprehensive treatment of all non-fossil-fuel-based 'renewable' energy sources. . . .The material is well illustrated and would be useful for anyone investigating this field. --Choice
With the aid of 370 pictures and figures and 50 tables of data, the book explains the underlying physical and technological principles for each energy source and examines for each the environmental effects and future prospects. --Hydro Review Worldwide


It is again a pleasure to read, beautifully produced, with excellent photographs, superb graphics and clear, lucid and careful explanations in the text . . . . This is an outstanding undergraduate level textbook which deserves to become the standard text. I can only urge all those who are
teaching courses in the field and all students, formal or otherwise, to read and treasure this book. --The Times Higher Education Supplement
A comprehensive treatment of all non-fossil-fuel-based 'renewable' energy sources. . . .The material is well illustrated and would be useful for anyone investigating this field. --Choice
With the aid of 370 pictures and figures and 50 tables of data, the book explains the underlying physical and technological principles for each energy source and examines for each the environmental effects and future prospects. --Hydro Review Worldwide

It is again a pleasure to read, beautifully produced, with excellent photographs, superb graphics and clear, lucid and careful explanations in the text . . . . This is an outstanding undergraduate level textbook which deserves to become the standard text. I can only urge all those who are teaching courses in the field and all students, formal or otherwise, to read and treasure this book. --The Times Higher Education Supplement
A comprehensive treatment of all non-fossil-fuel-based 'renewable' energy sources. . . .The material is well illustrated and would be useful for anyone investigating this field. --Choice
With the aid of 370 pictures and figures and 50 tables of data, the book explains the underlying physical and technological principles for each energy source and examines for each the environmental effects and future prospects. --Hydro Review Worldwide


It is again a pleasure to read, beautifully produced, with excellent photographs, superb graphics and clear, lucid and careful explanations in the text . . . . This is an outstanding undergraduate level textbook which deserves to become the standard text. I can only urge all those who are teaching courses in the field and all students, formal or otherwise, to read and treasure this book. --The Times Higher Education Supplement


A comprehensive treatment of all non-fossil-fuel-based 'renewable' energy sources. . . .The material is well illustrated and would be useful for anyone investigating this field. --Choice


With the aid of 370 pictures and figures and 50 tables of data, the book explains the underlying physical and technological principles for each energy source and examines for each the environmental effects and future prospects. --Hydro Review Worldwide