Category Archives: Oil & Energy

Carbon-Energy Taxation: Lessons from Europe

When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy? In 1990 Finland was the first country to introduce … Continue reading

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Fuel Cell Electronics Packaging

Today’s commercial, medical and military electronics are becoming smaller and smaller. At the same time these devices demand more power and currently this power requirement is met almost exclusively by battery power. This book includes coverage of ceramic hybrid separators … Continue reading

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Wind Energy Systems for Electric Power Generation (Green Energy and Technology)

This book deals with the electronics of Wind-Energy systems and their implementation into the grid. Starting from an overview on energy conversion and general concepts for Wind Energy systems, the concept, design and control of the electrical components are treated: … Continue reading

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Power Generation from Solid Fuels (Power Systems)

Power Generation from Solid Fuels introduces the different technologies to produce heat and power from solid fossil (hard coal, brown coal) and renewable (biomass, waste) fuels, such as combustion and gasification, steam power plants and combined cycles etc. The book … Continue reading

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Bioenergy from Sustainable Forestry: Guiding Principles and Practice (Forestry Sciences)

Bioenergy from Sustainable Forestry synthesizes information needed to design or implement sustainable forest management systems for production of biomass for energy in conjunction with other forest products. It is organized around the criteria for sustainable forest management: productivity, environment, social … Continue reading

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Ocean Wave Energy: Current Status and Future Prespectives (Green Energy and Technology)

The authors of this timely reference provide an updated and global view on ocean wave energy conversion – and they do so for wave energy developers as well as for students and professors. The book is orientated to the practical … Continue reading

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Intelligent Information Systems and Knowledge Management for Energy: Applications for Decision Support, Usage, and Environmental Protection

More than ever before, energy is becoming one of the most crucial concerns in economical and industrial development. Intelligent Information Systems and Knowledge Management for Energy: Applications for Decision Support, Usage, and Environmental Protection provides in-depth analysis of the need … Continue reading

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Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil

A stunning and revealing examination of oil’s indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it. Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its own way, but all are touched by the “resource curse”—the power … Continue reading

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World Energy Outlook 2009

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Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air

Addressing the sustainable energy crisis in an objective manner, this enlightening book analyzes the relevant numbers and organizes a plan for change on both a personal level and an internationalscale—for Europe, the United States, and the world. In case study … Continue reading

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