Renewable energy : power for a sustainable future / edited by Godfrey Boyle.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction renewable energy
1.1 introduction
1.2 Present-day energy use
1.3 Fossil fuels and climate change, etc

Chapter 2. Solar thermal energy (Bob Everett)
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The rooftop solar water heater
2.3 The nature and availability of solar radiation, etc

Chapter 3. Solar Photovoltaics (Godfrey Boyle)
3.1 Introduction
3.2 A brief history of PV
3.3 The PV: reducing costs and raising efficiency, etc

Chapter 4. Bioenergy (Dick Morris and Jonathan Scurlock)
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Bioenergy past and present
4.3 Biomass as a solar energy store, etc

Chapter 5. Hydroelectricity (Janet Ramage)
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Galloway hydros
5.3 The resource, etc

Chapters 6. Tidal power (David Elliott0
6.1 introduction
6.2 power generation from barrages
6.3 Environment considerations for the tidal barrages, etc

Chapter 7. Wind Energy (Derek Taylor)
7.1 introduction
7.2 The wind
7.3 wind turbines, etc

Chapter 8. Wave energy (Les Duckers)
8.1 introduction
8.2 introductory case studies
8.3 physical principals of wave energy, etc

Chapter 9. Geothermal Energy (John Ganish and Geoff Brown)
9.1 introduction
9.2 The physics of deep geothermal resources
9.3 Technologies for exploiting high-enthalpy steam fields, etc

Chapter 10. Integrating renewable Energy (Bob Everett and Godfrey Boyle)
10.1 introduction
10.2 The existing UK energy system
10.3 How can renewable energy decrease greenhouse gas emissions

Includes bibliographical references,
Index : p.549-566