
Introduction to Renewable Energy
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?Revised throughout and includes an all-new chapter on climate change.
Includes color images throughout for this new edition.
Adds revised end-of-chapter problems, and a solutions manual and PowerPoint slides for instructors.
Includes several appendices: mathematics, exponential growth, lifetime of finite resource, order of magnitude estimates, and conversions.
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Kenneth Starcher has a BS in physics/computer science at West Texas State University (1980). He received an MS in engineering technology at WTAMU (1995). Starcher has been a field worker at the Alternative Energy Institute (AEI) Wind Test Center since 1980. He has been the educational funnel for onsite training and public information for students and public workshops for AEI, and has served as a trainer at wind and solar training workshops locally, nationally, and internationally. He has also served as a research technician, research associate, assistant director, director, and associate director for AEI over the past 35 years.
Content
Chapter 2 Energy
Chapter 3 Climate Change
Chapter 4 Sun
Chapter 5 Heat Transfer and Storage Chapter
Chapter 6 Solar Heating and Cooling
Chapter 7 Photovoltaics
Chapter 8 Concentrating Solar Power
Chapter 9 Solar Systems
Chapter 10 Wind Energy
Chapter 11 Bioenergy
Chapter 12 Geothermal Energy
Chapter 13 Water
Chapter 14 Storage
Chapter 15 Institutional Issues
Chapter 16 Economics
Chapter 17 Observations Chapter 18 Appendix
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