Energy efficiency

Wood Pellet Heating Systems is a comprehensive handbook covering all aspects of wood pellet heating technology.

With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world.

This book addresses fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how is it constituted, how does it change and how might it be steered?

This book explores the transformative power of swarm intelligence and digital innovations in shaping the cities of the future.

This comprehensive account of the past, present and future of the automobile examines the key trends, key technologies and key players involved in the race to develop clean, environmentally friendly vehicles that are affordable and that do not compromise on safety or design.

Achieving a sustainable building is not just a matter of design and construction: what happens once the building is occupied is absolutely critical.

This book provides the connection between the growing body of literature on sustainability and the topics of energy and ICT.

This book provides the connection between the growing body of literature on sustainability and the topics of energy and ICT.

This four-volume set, edited by a leading expert in the field, brings together in one collection a series of papers that have been fundamental to the development of renewable energy as a defined discipline.

This book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions.

Following the success of its predecessor, this second edition of The Future of Energy Use provides essential analysis of the use of different forms of energy and their environmental and social impacts.

Governments across the globe are setting targets for reducing their carbon emissions.

Achieving a sustainable building is not just a matter of design and construction: what happens once the building is occupied is absolutely critical.

Exploring methods and techniques to optimize processing energy efficiency in process plants, Energy and Process Optimization for the Process Industries provides a holistic approach that considers optimizing process conditions, changing process flowschemes, modifying equipment internals, and upgrading process technology that has already been used in a process plant with success.

Solar energy is a substantial global industry, one that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of electric utility regulation rooted in the 1930s.

The wind power business has grown from a niche sector within the energy industry to a global industry that attracts substantial investment.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technology behind the pico-solar revolution and offers guidance on how to test and choose quality products.

This book describes how local consumption, particularly in urban areas, is increasingly met by global supply chains.

Through an examination of carbon footprint metaphors, this books demonstrates the ways in which climate change and other ecological issues are culturally and materially constituted through metaphor.

The Green Solar Cities, EU-Concerto project focuses on the practical large scale implementation of solar energy technologies in combination with new build and retrofit low energy building in the cities of Copenhagen, with its city part Valby, in Denmark and Salzburg in Austria.

Aeroform: Designing for Wind and Air Movement provides a comprehensive introduction to applying aerodynamic principles to architectural design.

This book analyses energy transitions and the opportunities and challenges for building sustainable energy systems to improve human capabilities while protecting the environment.

The Futureproof City creates adaptability and resiliency in the face of the unknown challenges resulting from technological change, population explosion, global pandemic, and environmental crisis.

This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments, shedding light on the theories that preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our cities.

There currently is no in-depth book dedicated to the challenge of the Internet of Everything and Big Data technologies in smart cities.

Wenn Sie sich für eine neue Heizungs- und Warmwasseranlage für Ihren Alt- oder Neubau entscheiden müssen, ist die Nutzung der Umweltwärme mithilfe einer Wärmepumpe eine interessante Alternative zum bisher weit verbreiteten Heizen mit fossilen Brennstoffen.

Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers presents a comprehensive introduction to the latest resources and technologies used in high performance and net zero energy buildings, with a practical focus on the design and integration of these systems.

The United Kingdom is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least eighty per cent by 2050, a target that will only be achieved by transforming the way that energy is supplied and used.

There currently is no in-depth book dedicated to the challenge of the Internet of Everything and Big Data technologies in smart cities.

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating.

Solar electricity - or photovoltaics (PV) - is the world's fastest growing energy technology.

This book describes how local consumption, particularly in urban areas, is increasingly met by global supply chains.

The climate problem is getting worse, but the solutions are getting better.

This volume explores interactions between academia and different societal stakeholders with a focus on sustainability.

This book comprises of chapters based on design of various advanced nano-catalysts and offers a development of novel solutions for a better sustainable energy future.

Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding a far greater environmental consciousness into our social values and norms.

This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change.

This book covers innovative technologies and approaches for improvement of technical and economic parameters of functional geotechnical systems.

Architecture must adapt to protect people from the threat of climate change.

This book brings to light a diverse range of innovative architectural design studio methodologies formulated to educate future graduates to combat the climate crisis through carbon neutral design.

The third edition of Design-Tech provides an indispensable, holistic resource for integrating building technologies into critically designed, performance-based architectural projects.

Climate change has become a major international issue and the British Government is committed to meeting ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the present decade and beyond.

The global economy and our way of life are based on the exploitation of fossil fuels, which not only threaten massive environmental and social disruption through global warming but, at present rates of consumption, will run out within decades, causing huge industrial dislocation and economic collapse.

The climate problem is getting worse, but the solutions are getting better.

The Design-Build Studio examines sixteen international community driven design-build case studies through process and product, with preceding chapters on community involvement, digital and handcraft methodologies and a graphic Time Map.

The integration of renewable energy resources into the electricity grid presents an important challenge.

Rapid changes in energy production and consumption are having major socioeconomic implications for the communities of rural America.

Ziel dieses Buches:Das Buch "Solarthermie - Eine nachhaltige Energiegewinnung für Haushalte und Unternehmen" ist ein umfassender Leitfaden für alle, die sich für den Einsatz von Solarthermie zur Heizung und Warmwasserbereitung interessieren.