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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Solar Power for Your Home

by Renewable Energy

Demand for solar power has grown consistently by 20 to 25% per annum over the past 20 years. In the past few years this rate has actually climbed to 40%. Why? Advances in solar cells, lower costs of using solar power, unpredictable utility rates, consumer frustration with the lack of utility choices, and environmental issues [...]

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Renewable Energy – Facts and Fantasies: The Tough Realities as Revealed in Interviews With 25 Subject Matter Experts

by Renewable Energy

Product Description"Our civilization's ever-increasing hunger for energy-and its fixation on fossil fuels to provide that energy-is in the process of imploding on itself as our population grows and its demographics change. Yet we live in a world of tough realities, where an elegant solution simply does not exist." 2GreenEnergy founder Craig Shields provides a broad [...]

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Photovoltaic Engineering Handbook

by Renewable Energy

The Photovoltaic Engineering Handbook is the first book to look closely at the practical problems involved in evaluating and setting up a photovoltaic (PV) power system. The author's comprehensive knowledge of the subject provides a wealth of theoretical and practical insight into the different procedures and decisions that designers need to make. Unique in its [...]

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The Solar Chimney: Electricity From the Sun

by Renewable Energy

Describes a viable alternative power source. Manzanares, Spain's solar chimney has proven to be effective. Tags: power source, alternative power, solar chimney, alternative energy, Technology Internet

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Homebrew Wind Power

by Renewable Energy

A Hands-on Guide to Harnessing the Wind Have you ever wondered how wind turbines work and why they look like they do? Are you interested in adding wind power to your off-grid electric system, but have been put off by the high cost of equipment and installation? Well, now you can build and install your [...]

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Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future Of

by Renewable Energy

A new national policy on climate change is under debate in the United States and is likely to result in a cap on greenhouse gas emissions for utilities. This and other developments will prompt utilities to undergo the largest changes in their history. Smart Power examines the many facets of this unprecedented transformation.  This enlightening [...]

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Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells: Technology and Systems

by Renewable Energy

As environmental concerns escalate, solar power is increasingly seen as an attractive alternative energy source. Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells addresses the practical and theoretical issues fundamental to the viable conversion of sunlight into electricity. Written by three internationally renowned experts, this valuable reference profits from results and experience gained from research at the Fraunhofer Institute [...]

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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of A

by Renewable Energy

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Tags: Open, pillage, open veins of latin america, Veins, Centuries, five centuries

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Active Solar Collectors and Their Applications

by Renewable Energy

Provides a survey of solar geometry and meteorologial data, the optics of various kinds of solar collectors, the mechanics of heat transfer, and private elements of system deign, optimization, and economic analysis. Also discussed are testing, methods and materials, and tracking and nontracking collectors. Tags: heat transfer, Technology Internet, various kinds active solar energy system

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents Of

by Renewable Energy

William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 percent of Malawians [...]

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Wind Power for Dummies

by Renewable Energy

The consumer guide to small-scale wind electricity production! Maybe you're not T. Boone Pickens, but you can build your own home-sized wind-power empire right in your back yard. Wind Power For Dummies supplies all the guidance you need to install and maintain a sustainable, cost-effective wind generator to power your home for decades to come. [...]

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The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

by Renewable Energy

The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We [...]

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Solar Power Your Home for Dummies (For Dummies (Home & Garden))

by Renewable Energy

The bestselling alternative energy reference book in North America—now in an updated edition Want to take advantage of solar power in your home? Whether you’re looking to save on your energy costs by adding a few solar components or you want to build a solar-powered house from the ground up, Solar Power For Dummies, 2nd [...]

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End of Oil

by Renewable Energy

Billions of people around the world enjoy an unprecedented standard of living based on one thing: oil. And each year we demand more. We produce and consume energy not simply to heat, feed, move or defend ourselves, but to educate, entertain, construct our world then fill it with stuff. Everything we buy, from a McDonald's [...]

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Solar Cell Device Physics, Second Edition

by Renewable Energy

There has been an enormous infusion of new ideas in the field of solar cells over the last 15 years; discourse on energy transfer has gotten much richer, and nanostructures and nanomaterials have revolutionized the possibilities for new technological developments. However, solar energy cannot become ubiquitous in the world's power markets unless it can become [...]

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Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future

by Renewable Energy

We have spent the last two centuries building a civilization on coal and the last century building it bigger still on oil. Fossil fuels have been the wellspring of our complex, glorious modern world, but they are about to run out. By the end of the 21st century, our oil and natural gas supplies will [...]

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