Energy resources

This is an analytical assessment of how the government can accelerate development and deployment of energy technologies, for researchers and policy makers.

The monograph has solved an actual scientific problem, improving the efficiency of electricity networks by developing methods of compensation current non-active components under harmonic distortions and unbalance of mains supply voltage.

Changing Energyoutlines how humanity established the current energy economy through three previous transitions, and how we now stand poised for a necessary fourth transition.

In the years since the publication of the first edition of this book, the world has undergone drastic changes in terms of energy sources.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the Congressional Research Service on Energy and Environment during the month of March.

Fossil fuel energy is the lifeblood of the modern world.

This landmark work lauds the benefits of decreased energy consumption, investigating its relationship to public policy and analyzing its potential billion-dollar benefits to the U.

The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing fracking as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local economies.

Petroleum has played a crucial role in the socio-economic and political welfare of the world.

Explores the shaping of China and India''s energy and climate policies by two-level pressures characterized as wealth, status and asymmetrical interdependence.

This volume addresses ten issues pertaining to energy and the environment, such as climate change, fossil fuels, endangered species, and renewable energy, and examines how these issues are affecting countries around the world.

Noch in der späten Zarenzeit entwickelte sich Russland dank des Aufbaus einer modernen Erdölindustrie im Kaukasus zu einem der weltweit führenden Ölproduzenten und hat diese Stellung in der Sowjetzeit noch ausgebaut.

Does the Earth contain enough oil to provide energy for the human race indefinitely?

By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age and it still does.

Energy Resources: Examining the Facts provides an authoritative, comprehensive overview of economic, political, and environmental drivers of America's energy picture, from trends in the production and consumption of fossil fuels and renewables to the state of the national energy grid.

This book examines the key aspects that will define future sustainable energy systems: biofuels, green nanomaterials and the production of bioethanol and bio-hydrogen from bio-waste.

This book provides an outstanding single-volume resource on the topic of solar energy for young adults and general audiences.

This textbook explores the science and tecnologies needed for renewable energy.

Examines current and prospective challenges surrounding global challenges of education, energy, healthcare, security, and resilience This book discusses issues in large-scale systems in the United States and around the world.

Originally published in 1977, this book concentrates on the period since nationalisation in the history of the coal industry.

One of Bill Gates's Favorite Books of 2016A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approaching energy future.

In the years since the publication of the first edition of this book, the world has undergone drastic changes in terms of energy sources.

Mining in Ecologically Sensitive Landscapes explores the interface between geology and botany, and mining and conservation.

Over the past decade, renewables-based technology and sustainability assessment methods have grown tremendously.

Though predominantly on oil and gas law, this is nonetheless a veritable Reference Book on the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.

Once imagined as a place on the very edge of the world, Greenland is now viewed as being at the epicentre of climate change.

This book explains the drivers and implications of unconventional gas at regional, national and global scales with case studies and in-depth analyses.

Renewable Power Pathways is the result of a study by the National Research Council (NRC) Committee for the Programmatic Review of the Office of Power Technologies (OPT) review of the U.

A handbook of sustainable energy, covering entire energy aspects from present status to future alternatives under one umbrella This book takes an interdisciplinary system approach to evaluating energy systems so that readers can gain the necessary technical foundation to perform their own performance evaluations and understand their interactions with socioeconomic indicators.

The projects in the Future Megacities programme gain valuable experiences in developing energy efficient standards and urban structures with adequate conditions to treat resources with care and avoid unnecessary emissions.

Die Nuklearkatastrophe von Fukushima sowie die Wahlkämpfe in Deutschland und in der Schweiz sorgten 2011 für einen Stimmungswechsel bei der Energiepolitik.

How changing the way we think about water and energy can secure the long-term sustainability of both precious resources Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the world’s two most critical resources, their vital interconnections and vulnerabilities are less often recognized.

America's economy and lifestyles have been shaped by the low prices and availability of energy.

Renewable energy is becoming crucially important, as concern over burning fossil fuels is increasing and the price of oil continues to rise.

With the general reader in mind, Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon outlines the global challenge of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.

Renewing Destruction examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments.

The Chemical Sciences Roundtable (CSR) was established in 1997 by the National Research Council (NRC).

This book explores how the idea of justice can give us a way to better assess and resolve energy challenges and problems.

Over 60 million people live in the SADCC countries; by 2000 AD the number will be over 100 million.

Since 2008, energy and food markets those most fundamental to human existence have remained in turmoil.

From flammable tap water and sick livestock to the recent onset of hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma, the impact of fracking in the United States is far-reaching and deeply felt.

The United States and China are the world's top two energy consumers and, as of 2010, the two largest economies.

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Examines current and prospective challenges surrounding global challenges of education, energy, healthcare, security, and resilience This book discusses issues in large-scale systems in the United States and around the world.

The National Academies' National Research Council undertook this study in response to a request from the Under Secretary of Energy to provide strategic advice on how the Department of Energy could improve its Environmental Quality R&D portfolio.

Whether buried underfoot or strung overhead, electrical lines are omnipresent.

The acute energy problems facing China today are characterized by their own histories and realities.