Boyle, Godfrey creator text xxu Oxford Oxford University Press in association with the Open University 2012 monographic eng

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xv, 566 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm. The provision of sustainable energy supplies for an expanding and increasingly productive world is one of the major issues facing civilisation today. Renewable Energy examines both the practical and economic potential of the renewable energy sources to meet this challenge. The underlying physical and technological principles behind deriving power from direct solar (solar thermal and photovoltaics), indirect solar (biomass, hydro, wind and wave) and non-solar (tidal and geothermal) energy sources are explained, within the context of their environmental impacts, their economics and their future prospects. -- Publisher description. Boyle, Godfrey Include Index 333.79 BOY 9780199681273 MAIN 171214 20171214060708.0 ENG