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  • Thermal Energy Harvesting for Application at MEMS Scale

    by Steven Percy, Chris Knight, Scott McGarry, Alex Post, Tim Moore, Kate Cavanagh ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book discusses the history of thermal heat generators and focuses on the potential for these processes using micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) technology for this application. The main focus is on the capture of waste thermal energy for example from industrial processes, transport systems or the human body to generate useable electrical power. A wide range of technologies is ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Come On!

    Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet

    by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Anders Wijkman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Current worldwide trends are not sustainable. The Club of Rome’s warnings published in the book Limits to Growth are still valid. Remedies that are acceptable for the great majority tend to make things worse. We seem to be in a philosophical crisis. Pope Francis says it clearly: our common home is in deadly danger. Analyzing the philosophical crisis, the book comes to the conclusion that the world ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Energy Economics

    Concepts, Issues, Markets and Governance

    by Subhes C. Bhattacharyya ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Since its modest beginning in the 1970s, the academic and research focus on energy has grown substantially and energy has established itself as an independent, interdisciplinary subject area. It attracts attention from people in a range of different fields including engineers, scientists, geologists, environmentalists, bankers, investors, policy makers and politicians. Energy Economics introduces ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Energy and the Wealth of Nations

    Understanding the Biophysical Economy

    by Charles A. S. Hall, Kent A. Klitgaard ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers. In this “perpetual motion” of interactions between firms that produce and households that consume, little or no accounting is given of the flow of energy and materials from the environment and back again. In the standard economic model, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Energy Efficiency and the Future of Real Estate

    Edited by N. Edward Coulson, Yongsheng Wang, Clifford A. Lipscomb ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real estate. Efficiency is one of the most frequently-mentioned aspects of government policies for green building design in the United States and around the world. There has been a significant amount of effort devoted to the creation of green practices in real estate, including building construction, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Economics of Biofuel Policies

    Impacts on Price Volatility in Grain and Oilseed Markets

    by Harry de Gorter, D. Drabik, David R. Just ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The global food crises of 2008 and 2010 and the increased price volatility revolve around biofuels policies and their interaction with each other, farm policies and between countries. While a certain degree of research has been conducted on biofuel efficacy and logistics, there is currently no book on the market devoted to the economics of biofuel policies. The Economics of Biofuel Policies ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Expanding Competition in Regulated Industries

    Edited by Michael A. Crew ...
    Series Book 37 - Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy
    Expanding Competition in Regulated Industries reviews the changing regulatory environment, notably incentive regulation and competition in regulated industries. Some of the major changes in electricity, gas, and telephone utilities allow for competition in local service through unbundling. This book is of interest to researchers, utility managers, regulatory commissions, and the Federal Government ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Regulation of the Power Sector

    Edited by Ignacio J. Pérez-Arriaga ...
    Series series Power Systems
    Regulation of the Power Sector is a unified, consistent and comprehensive treatment of the theories and practicalities of regulation in modern power-supply systems. The need for generation to occur at the time of use occasioned by the impracticality of large-scale electricity storage coupled with constant and often unpredictable changes in demand make electricity-supply systems large, dynamic and ... Read more

    $287.99 USD

  • Infranomics

    Sustainability, Engineering Design and Governance

    Edited by Adrian V. Gheorghe, Marcelo Masera, Polinpapilinho F. Katina ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides a rough entry into the interdisciplinary field of Infranomics. It enables better decision making in an increasing ambiguous, complex, emergent, interdependent, and uncertain world where we attempt to anticipate modern society trends and patterns in order to react appropriately. However, as with any emerging discipline, much research is needed at the applications and conceptual ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Economics of Natural Gas Storage

    A European Perspective

    Edited by Anna Cretì ...
    I remember that the idea of this book emerged ?rst in Toulouse, during the Third Conference on Energy Markets – 3 years ago now. Anna Cret` ? gave a talk on a model dealing with seasonal gas storage in the USA, and Christian Von Hirschausen was her discussant. Both of them were devoting their efforts to understand the natural gas market in Europe and the relevant liberalization process. I found ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Interrelationship Between Financial and Energy Markets

    Edited by Sofia Ramos, Helena Veiga ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    In the last decade, energy markets have developed substantially due to the growing activity of financial investors. One consequence of this massive presence of investors is a stronger link between the hitherto segmented energy and financial markets. This book addresses some of the recent developments in the interrelationship between financial and energy markets. It aims to further the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Japan's Nuclear Crisis

    The Routes to Responsibility

    by S. Carpenter ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    An analysis and exploration into the impact of Japan's 2011 nuclear crisis. Investigation of the disaster will pose questions regarding why Daiichi was constructed in an earthquake-prone zone and was still operating despite problems that had been plaguing the reactors since 1989 such as cracks in infrastructure and leaks in radioactivity. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD