Electricity from renewable resources : status, prospects, and impediments

Electricity from renewable resources : status, prospects, and impediments /

"A component in the America's Energy Future study, Electricity from Renewable Resources examines the technical potential for electric power generation with alternative sources such as wind, solar-photovoltaic, geothermal, solar-thermal, hydroelectric, and other renewable sources. The book...

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Corporate Authors: National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Electricity from Renewable Resources, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), National Academy of Engineering
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2010
Series:America's energy future series.
Subjects:
Renewable energy sources > United States.
Electric power production > United States.
Power resources.
Energy-Generating Resources
energy resources.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Resource base
  • Renewable electricity generation technologies
  • Economics of renewable electricity
  • Environmental impacts of renewable electricity generation
  • Deployment of renewable electric energy
  • Scenarios.

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