This scientifically sound, yet easily readable book provides the fundamentals necessary to understand today's energy and climate problems and provides possible answers based on current technology such as solar, water and geothermal power. Moreover, it introduces the reader to ne…
This book provides an evaluation for each of the current means and consumption of power generation of the available fuel resources. The book examines resource quantity, resource availability, economics, energy quality, conservation requirements, transportation requirements, deli…
"With growing concerns about the security, cost, and ecological consequences of energy use, people around the world are becoming more conscious of the systems that meet their daily needs for food, heat, cooling, light, transportation, communication, waste disposal, medicine, and…
Introduction : energy poverty and its drivers in post-communist Europe : the visible, the measurable and the hidden / Ute Dubois -- Energy poverty in Hungary : trapped in politics / Anna Zsófia Bajomi, Nóra Feldmár, and Lea Kőszeghy -- Inconsistencies in policy-making as drivers…
"This book will summarize the latest trends and attitudes in Energy & Environmental Finance (EEF), balancing empirical research with theory, applications, and actual case studies and discussing the emergence, role, and current practices of EEF."
"Before the industrial revolution prolonged economic growth was unachievable. All economies were organic, dependent on plant photosynthesis to provide food, raw materials, and energy. This was true both of heat energy, derived from burning wood, and mechanical energy provided ch…
