Sustainable energy technologies

"This book examines the key aspects that will define future sustainable energy systems: energy supply, energy storage, security and limited environmental impacts. It clearly explains the need for an integrated engineering approach to sustainable energies, based on mathematical, biogeophysical, and engineering arguments. Resilient and efficient alternatives are compared to non-sustainable options. This book results from the collaboration of 50 international contributors."--Provided by publisher.

Introduction / Eduardo Rincón-Mejía, Alejandro de las Heras, and Marina Islas-Espinoza -- Solar and geothermal energies are sustainable; nuclear power is not / Alejandro de las Heras, Eduardo Rincón-Mejía, Behrooz Sani, and Marina Islas-Espinoza -- Renewables - the politics and economics behind them / Andrea Leon-Grossmann -- The constructal design applied to renewable energy systems / Elizaldo D. dos Santos, Liércio A. Isoldi, Mateus das N. Gomes, and Luiz A. O. Rocha -- Integration of renewalbe energy technologies in buildings and cities / Andy Walker -- Next developments in solar thermal technologies / Valeriano Ruiz-Hernández -- Advances in solar-assisted air conditioning systems for tropical-humid locations / Jorge E. González -- Absorption thermodynamic cycles: advanced cycles based on ammonia/salt / Antonio Lecuona-Neumann, Pedro A. Rodríguez-Aumente, Mathieu Legrand, and Antonio Famiglietti -- Hybrid solar and geothermal heating and cooling / Bernd Weber -- Thermal energy storage systems for solar applications / Aran Solé, Alvaro de Gracia, and Luisa F. Cadeza -- Solar photocatalytic energy / Lourdes Isabel Cabrera-Lara -- Novel solar fuels from H₂O and CO₂ / Christian Sa…