Renewable energy made easy : free energy from solar, wind, hydropower, and other alternative energy sources /
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Ocala, Fla. :
Atlantic Pub. Group,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Reduce, reuse and renew
- The almost-perfect day
- Problems with fossil fuels
- Renewable energy pros and cons
- The focus of renewable energy made easy
- The potential of solar power
- A history of solar energy
- Windows (not the operating system)
- Solar collectors
- Types of solar energy
- Passive solar
- Interseasonal storage
- Daylighting
- Low temperature alternatives
- Photovoltaic
- Powering Mr. Fusion: biomass as an energy source
- A history of biomass
- The conversion process and its pros and cons
- Methods for improving fuel efficiency
- Crops
- Oily seeds and biodiesel
- Biogas
- Costs
- Ethanol
- The biomass-powered engine that could
- Environmental issues
- Getting wet and wild with hydropower
- A history of hydropower
- Head
- Turbines
- How does a hydropower system work?
- Hydropower applications
- The Francis turbine
- Effects on ecosystems
- Environmental issues
- Wind power
- A history of wind power and windmills
- Wind turbines
- Appropriate wind speeds
- Estimating the power a turbine could produce
- Costs of wind power
- Siting ideal locations for wind turbines
- Offshore wind
- Strengths and weaknesses of wind power
- The potential of wave power
- A history of waves
- How wave energy works
- Types of waves
- Sea states
- Under the sea (state)
- Capturing a wave
- Integrating wave energy into our everyday lives
- The extreme economics of wave energy
- Limiting environmental impact
- Harvesting geothermal energy
- Prospective geothermal energy locations
- Geothermal plants
- Uses for geothermal energy
- Problems with geothermal energy
- High points of geothermal energy
- Case studies.
