Biofuels, solar and wind as renewable energy systems
Subtitle: benefits and risks
By: David Pimentel, editor
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Dordrecht, Netherlands]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9781402086533; 9781402086540
Subjects: Biomass energy; Solar energy; Wind power; Renewable energy sources; Erneuerbare Energien
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Renewable and solar energy technologies : energy and environmental issues / David Pimentel; title: Can the Earth deliver the biomass-for-fuel we demand? / Tad W. Patzek; title: A review of the economic rewards and risks of ethanol production / David Swenson; title: Subsidies to ethanol in the United States / Doug Koplow and Ronald Steenblik; title: Peak oil, EROI, investments and the economy in an uncertain future / Charles A.S. Hall, Robert Powers and William Schoenberg; title: Wind power : benefits and limitations / Andrew R.B. Ferguson; title: Renewable diesel / Robert Rapier; title: Complex systems thinking and renewable energy systems / Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi; title: Sugarcane and ethanol production and carbon dioxide balances / Marcelo Dias De Oliveira; title: Biomass fuel cycle boundaries and parameters : current practice and proposed methodology / Tom Gangwer; title: Our food and fuel future / Edwin Kessler; title: A framework for energy alternatives : net energy, Liebig's law and multi-criteria analysis / Nathan John Hagens and Kenneth Mulder; title: Bio-ethanol production in Brazil / Robert M. Boddey, Luis Henrique de B. Soares, Bruno J.R. Alves and Segundo Urquiaga; title: Ethanol production : energy and economic issues related to U.S. and Brazilian sugarcane / David Pimentel and Tad W. Patzek; title: Ethanol production using corn, switchgrass, and wood ; Biodiesel production using soybean / David Pimentel and Tad Patzek; title: Developing energy crops for thermal applications : optimizing fuel quality, energy security and GHG mitigation / Roger Samson, Claudia Ho Lem, Stephanie Bailey Stamler and Jeroen Dooper; title: Organic and sustainable agriculture and energy conservation / Tiziano Gomiero and Maurizio G. Paoletti; title: Biofuel production in Italy and Europe : benefits and costs, in the light of the present European Union biofuel policy / Sergio Ulgiati, Daniela Russi and Marco Raugei; title: The power density of ethanol from Brazilian sugarcane / Andrew R.B. Ferguson; title: A brief discussion on algae for oil production : energy issues / David Pimentel.