Renewable energy
Subtitle: a user's guide
By: Andy McCrea
Edition: Updated new ed.
Publisher: Crowood
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ramsbury
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781847974792
Subjects: Renewable energy sources
Description: Includes news reports that highlights spiralling energy costs, accelerating energy consumption, serious concerns over fuel security and fears that oil production may soon decline. In this title, all such reports are set against a background of the most serious threat to the world today - global warming and the devastating impact of climate change.
Notes: Previous edition: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Renewable Energy: An Introduction; title: 2. Solar Water Heating; title: 3. Heat Pumps; title: 4. Biofuels; title: 5. Wind Energy; title: 6. Solar Photovoltaic (PV); title: 7. Hydroelectricity; title: 8. Renewable Energy Technologies for the Near Future.