Global Warming
Capture and storageof carbondioxide 289 Capture and storage of carbon dioxide An alternative to moving away from fossil fuel sou ...
290 Energy andtransport for thefuture forty minutes as we use in a whole year. So, providing we can harness it satisfactorily an ...
Hydro-power 291 Table 11.5Contributions to world energy supply (in millions of tonnes of oil equivalent) from renewable sources ...
292 Energy andtransport for thefuture Table 11.6Current status and potential future costs of renewable energy technologies. The ...
Biomass as fuel 293 But hydroelectric schemes do not have to be large; Table 11.5 dis- tinguishes between large and small hydroe ...
294 Energy andtransport for thefuture In much of the developing world, most of the population live in areas where there is no ac ...
Biomass as fuel 295 Biomass projects in rural areas in the developing world In much of the developing world, most of the popu- l ...
296 Energy andtransport for thefuture Figure 11.10The processes involved in the sugar cane industry. other biomass fuel sources ...
Wind energy 297 fermentation in the absence of oxygen (anaerobic digestion) of these wastes produces biogas, which is mostly met ...
298 Energy andtransport for thefuture a two- or three-bladed propeller about 50 m in diameter and a rate of power generation in ...
Energy from theSun 299 Wind power on Fair Isle A good example^46 of a site where wind power has been put to good ef- fect is Fai ...
300 Energy andtransport for thefuture Solar water heating The essential components of a solar water heater (Figure 11.11) are a ...
Energy from theSun 301 Solar energy in building design All buildings benefit from unplanned gains of so- lar energy through wind ...
302 Energy andtransport for thefuture The photovoltaic solar cell The silicon photovoltaic (PV) solar cell consists of a thin sl ...
Energy from theSun 303 Sunlight can be converted directly into electricity by means of photo- voltaic (PV) solar cells (see box ...
304 Energy andtransport for thefuture Figure 11.14A simple ’solar home system’ now being marketed in many countries in Africa, A ...
Other renewableenergies 305 Other renewable energies We have so far covered the renewable energy sources for which there is pote ...
306 Energy andtransport for thefuture turn this into electrical energy.^58 The waters around the British Isles con- tain some of ...
The support andfinancing of renewableenergy 307 attached to energy – worldwide they amount on average to the equivalent of about ...
308 Energy andtransport for thefuture mentioned that sustained growth of thirty per cent or more per year is needed in wind and ...
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