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Power beaming is the ability to move energy without moving or employing mass between an energy input and energy output. It is an emerging technology that could reshape how we generate and distribute energy and how our devices and autonomous systems are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553419986Author Ted KoppelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

This open access book presents detailed pathways to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2050, globally and across ten geographical regions. Based on state-of-the-art scenario modelling, it provides the vital missing link between renewable energy targets and...

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction'At heart a David and Goliath story fit for the movies ... [A] valuable, discomforting book' The New York Times Book ReviewSeven years in the making, Amity and Prosperity tells the story of the...

Everything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming. While renewables will surely play an important part in our future energy strategy, expecting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988722016Author Gaurav VermaFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Cadcamcae WorksPublisher Cadcamcae WorksWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312643751Author Jeremy ShereFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787780158664Author Babatunde Raji Fashola SanFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Quramo PublishingPublisher Quramo PublishingWeight(grams)...

Without oil, what would you do? How would you travel? How would you eat? What would everyday life be like? The world is about to change dramatically and permanently as a result of oil depletion. Within the next few years, the global production of oil...

THE LEGENDARY TEACHER OF STORY . . . Robert McKee's new book CHARACTER: The Art of Role and Cast Design for Page, Stage and Screen is an excellent companion volume to his hugely successful STORY: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603866033Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This book is a concise introductory guide to understanding the foundations of electrochemistry. By using simplified classroom-tested methods developed while teaching the subject to engineering students, the author explains in simple language an otherwise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781394241002Author Alexandra von MeierFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Wiley-IEEE PressPublisher John Wiley & Sons Inc

This book reconsiders the basic approaches behind the BEM method and in particular assesses and validates the equations forming the general momentum theory. One part of the book concerns the validation, using numerical fluid mechanics (CFD), of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143121947Author Daniel YerginFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

For four decades, Petroleum Refining has guided thousands of readers toward a reliable understanding of the field, and through the years has become the standard text in many schools and universities around the world offering petroleum refining classes,...

The use of renewables is spreading rapidly. Over a quarter of global electricity is already generated from solar, wind, hydro and biomass energy. With costs falling significantly, renewables are booming, helping to avoid the major climate change risks...

This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded a vast infrastructure of...

This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created.Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736290231Author Paul ScheckelFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Parsec Energy ConsultingPublisher Parsec Energy ConsultingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732544642Author Bill NusseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Anenergyproject, LLCPublisher Anenergyproject, LLCWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This book provides a broad overview on the different aspects of solar energy, with a focus on photovoltaics, which is the technology that allows light energy to be converted into electric energy. Renewable energy sources have become increasingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116721Author Tom ZoellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908867056Author Philip M. HoskenFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Footsteps PressPublisher Footsteps PressWeight(grams) 117gDimensions(mm) 140mm *...

1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. The world had just emerged from a war that had killed millions of people and a global pandemic that had ended the lives of tens of millions more. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995473034Author Maryam FanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Occasional PapersPublisher Occasional Papers

The internal heat of the planet Earth represents an inexhaustible reservoir of thermal energy known as Geothermal Energy. The 2nd edition of the book covers the geologic and technical aspects of developing all forms of currently available systems using...

Conversion of biomass into chemicals and biofuels is an active research and development area as trends move to replace traditional fossil fuels with renewable resources. By integrating processing methods with microwave and ultrasound irradiation into...

Geothermal Energy, Heat Exchange Systems and Energy Piles focuses on topics from high temperature geothermal energy extraction, to lower temperature situations at ground surface and shallow depths. Providing broad international coverage, the chapters...

Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities. The Permaculture City...

For over 60 years, scientists and engineers have been trying to crack a seemingly intractable problem: how to build practical devices that exploit nuclear fusion. Access to electricity has facilitated a standard of living that was previously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868174Author Nikola TeslaFormat HardbackPage Count 52Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Transforming our energy supplies to be more sustainable is seen by many to be the biggest challenge of our times. In this comprehensive textbook, L. D. Danny Harvey sets out in unprecedented detail the path we must take to minimize the effects that the...

This book is a concise reader-friendly introductory guide to understanding renewable energy technologies. By using simplified classroom-tested methods developed while teaching the subject to engineering students, the authors explain in simple language an...

Producing electricity from the sun using photovoltaic (PV) systems has become a major industry worldwide. But designing, installing and maintaining such systems requires knowledge and training, and there have been few easily accessible, comprehensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786197258103Author DIMI Avram MseFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Digital Publishing LtdPublisher Digital Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Our Renewable Energy Future focuses on clean energy technology evolution and where our energy system is going. While its foundation is technology innovation, it brings a unique perspective that technology alone is not what has brought about the explosive...

Unlike many textbooks or popular science books, A Simple Guide to Popular Physics has truly been crafted for the uninitiated or those spooked by the subject's complexity. Harris's inviting guide promises to give "absolute beginners" from "teens to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803692890Author D J HaskellFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

By 6:00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that would render a huge swath of eastern Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable. The control room crew,...