Renewable energy : technology, and environment economics

Publikationstyp
Book
Date Issued
2007
Sprache
English
Herausgeber*innen
Kaltschmitt, Martin  
Streicher, Wolfgang  
Wiese, Andreas  
TORE-URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11420/48925
Start Page
1
End Page
564
Citation
Renewable Energy : Technology, and Environment Economics / edited by Martin Kaltschmitt, Wolfgang Streicher, Andreas Wiese. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007
Publisher DOI
10.1007/3-540-70949-5
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84892822666
Publisher
Springer
ISBN
3-540-70947-9
978-3-540-70947-3
978-3-540-70949-7
Is Previous Version of
11420/9063
This book presents the physical and technical principles of promising ways of utilising renewable energies. In this context, firstly the main characteristics of the available renewable energy streams are outlined. Subsequently, the book presents the technologies of heat provision from passive and active solar systems, ambient air, shallow geothermal energy as well as energy from deep geothermal sources. In the preceding chapters the book addresses the processes of electricity generation from solar radiation (photovoltaic and solar thermal power plant technologies), wind energy, and hydropower. In addition, a brief discussions of harnessing ocean energies is included. The authors provide the important data and parameter sets for the major possibilities of renewable energies utilization which allow an economic and environmental assessment. Such an assessment enables us to judge the chances and limits of the multiple options utilising renewable energy sources.
DDC Class
624: Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering