This undergraduate text aimed primarily at high schoolers and lower level undergraduates focuses on explaining how the various forms of renewable energy work and the current ongoing research. It includes sections on non-scientific aspects that should be considered such as availability of resources. A final chapter covers methods of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Renewable energy is currently on everyone's mind in the context of climate change. This text provides students with an introduction into the science behind the various types of renewable energy enabling them to access review literature in the field and options that that should be considered when selecting methods.

Features

• Collates the most relevant and up to date information on renewable energy systems in a user friendly format for undergraduate and high school students.
  
• Focuses on power production technologies from renewable energy sources.
  
• An introduction to how sources of renewable energy work; their advantages and drawbacks.
  
• Timely text with the need for fast adoption of renewable energy technologies around the world.
  
• Suitable for a diverse audience including students with some scientific background such as final year in high school wanting to know more about combatting climate change.

About the Author

Elaine A. Moore studied chemistry as an undergraduate

at Oxford University, England, and then stayed on to complete

a DPhil in theoretical chemistry with Peter Atkins.

After a two-year postdoctoral position at the University of

Southampton, England, she joined the Open University, UK

(OU), in 1975, becoming a lecturer in chemistry in 1977,

senior lecturer in 1998 and reader in 2004. She retired in

2017 and currently has an honorary position at the Open

University.

She has produced OU teaching texts in chemistry for

courses at levels 1, 2 and 3 and written texts in astronomy

at level 2 and physics at level 3. She is a co-author of Metals

and Life and of Concepts in Transition Metal Chemistry,

which were part of a level 3 Open University course in

inorganic chemistry, and were co-published with the Royal

Society of Chemistry. She was team leader for the production

and presentation of an Open University level 2 chemistry

module delivered entirely online. She is a Fellow of

the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Senior Fellow of the

Higher Education Academy. She was a co-chair for the successful

departmental submission of an Athena Swan bronze

award.

Her research interests are in theoretical chemistry applied

mainly to solid-state systems, and she is the author or

co-author of more than 50 papers in refereed scientific journals.

A long-standing collaboration in this area led to her

being invited to help run a series of postgraduate workshops

on computational Materials Science hosted by the University of

Khartoum, Sudan.

Book Information
ISBN 9781032275758
Author Elaine A. Moore
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint CRC Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 140g