Energy Efficiency in the Urban Environment is a study of energy crisis, urbanisation, and climate change, as well as a discussion of how to combat these global challenges. With a special focus on Egypt, this book addresses the macroscale of urbanism from the perspective of city dwellers’ quality of life, and explores the microscale of buildings and the perspective of ensuring indoor air quality within the boundaries of energy efficiency.Offering an integrated view of energy systems and urban planning supported by extensive data, references, and case studies, this text:Examines the energy efficiency performance of cities following sustainable urbanism principlesInvestigates how informal areas in developing countries achieve sustainable developmentPresents energy-efficient urban planning as a tool for improving city energy performanceProposes the development of a common procedure for obtaining an energy performance certificateCalculates the energy performance of buildings, accounting for heating/cooling systems and other variablesEnergy Efficiency in the Urban Environment demonstrates the importance of implementing an energy performance directive to aid energy savings in large buildings and set regulations for energy-efficient designs based on standard calculation methods. This book provides engineers working with sustainable energy systems, urban planners needing information on energy systems and optimisation, and professors and students of engineering, environmental science, and urban planning with a valuable reference on energy sustainability.
This book presents techniques for building and optimizing structures with integrated solar energy systems. It describes active solar systems such as photovoltaics and parabolic concentrators as well as passive solar systems and covers optimal materials to use, daylighting, shading, solar blinds, rock and water energy storage and more. It discusses the best ways to site a solar structure considering exposure, elevation, slope, clearance, wind protection, etc. The book includes numerous full-color figures and more than 100 MATLAB® files.
Our climate is changing fast, partly because of our energy use. Everything from turning on a light to driving a car consumes energy. Can new energy technology help combat climate change? Discover how scientists and engineers are testing out new sources of energy and what you can do to reduce your personal energy use.
Our climate is changing fast, partly because of our energy use. Everything from turning on a light to driving a car consumes energy. Can new energy technology help combat climate change? Discover how scientists and engineers are testing out new sources of energy and what you can do to reduce your personal energy use.
It's late Fall in the year 2016. Two drinking buddies; one a Lieutenant General at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the other a wealthy civilian business man, discuss the advantages of developing fusion energy. The obvious conclusion is that the government needs to finish the Manhattan Project Both men realize that the government could do in 4 years or less, what the private sector has failed to do in more than 60 years of empty promises. Fusion energy promises to solve 80% of the World's problems quickly, if only someone in the right position would take the initiative. It turns out that our 3-star General in the story is the one man in the World to get it done. General Frank Wilson just happens to be the top General at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Both men are aware that once fusion arrives, all the other forms of energy will immediately become obsolete. There's no doubt or debate about that. Fusion is the ultimate energy because, unlike Fission, it promises ECSAFE: Economical, Clean, Safe, Abundant, and (virtually) Free Energy. Scientists have been creating fusion since the 1950's. The problem is . . . containment. Our two heroes launch a quest to develop fusion containment technology now . . . rather than later. Because they are too well aware of how desperately we needed it yesterday, or sooner. They also know that later . . . may be too late Both men know that fusion energy will end the Terror Wars and it will quell all the fears of Global Warming. Fusion will cause the economy of the entire World to surge towards unprecedented levels. Extending and finishing the Manhattan Project to develop fusion energy will offer the one solution that will instantly bring the World back from the brink The General becomes an icon of history because he is in the precise position to acquire the black budget funding, and he alone holds the power to get the job done. As a result of some gentle prodding by his civilian friend, General Wilson decides to do it, but then he surprises his friend by choosing him, (the civilian business man) to become the director of the project. They name the project, "Project Starshine". Together, with the might of America behind them, they locate a team of four MIT grads with Ph.D's in experimental plasma physics, to do the scientific and experimental work at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The special team is chosen because they have a unique and different, new perspective about how to contain the heat extremes inherent with fusion technology. They are a team of especially gifted out-of-the-box thinkers, with can-do attitudes. "Can't" and "impossible" are two words they simply do not recognize. They know they can accomplish the task and they are determined to succeed in record time, and well under budget. Add a couple of beautiful women with genius level minds. Mix them gently with equally interesting male intellects . . . and stir. A story of love, greed, suspense, intrigue, espionage and determination will explode within your heart, mind and soul. Will they do it? Will they succeed? How? Read "Fusion Now", to discover for yourself just how easily it might be done, and what it would mean to the World. What if our government might actually wake up and get fully behind finishing the Manhattan Project as if: failure was not an option? Because it truly is not
ESG is a powerful concept that combines expectations for environmental (E) and social (S) benefits with effective governance (G), to ensure those benefits are achieved. How can project teams manage ESG with the same discipline, structure, and consistency that characterize the way they manage safety, cost, schedule, and quality? The answer lies in doing what teams do best: breaking down the problem into manageable chunks, setting up a process everyone can follow, working together to develop a plan to which all players can commit, and then executing that plan.This Guide is a methodology for doing exactly that. It is a workbook, filled with predefined worksheets to be completed for each project. It provides a structure for planning workshops to address each aspect of an ESG plan. In addition to its use by project teams, this Guide can also be used by executives, investors, lenders, or government agencies as part of due diligence to ensure plans are in place to meet or exceed ESG requirements and expectations.
This book supports HVAC planners in reducing the cooling energy demand, improving the indoor environment and designing more cost-effective building concepts. High performance buildings have shown that it is possible to go clearly beyond the energy requirements of existing legislation and obtaining good thermal comfort. However, there is still a strong uncertainty in day-to-day practice due to the lack of legislative regulations for mixed-mode buildings which are neither only naturally ventilated nor fully air-conditioned, but use a mix of different low-energy cooling techniques. Based on the findings from monitoring campaigns (long-term measurements in combination with field studies on thermal comfort), simulation studies, and a comprehensive review on existing standards and guidelines, this book acts as a commonly accessible knowledge pool for passive and low-energy cooling techniques.
This book is an easy to use instructional aide. Explore sustainability issues in contemporary society through a transdisciplinary approach. Chapters include ethics, public resources, public policy, combustion, heat exchangers, nuclear, solar, water, and wind energy. A short summary is presented for each topic, followed by additional topics for research, assignments, and references. The complex assignments require students to grow in their professional judgment.
In this volume, engineering principles of renewable energy are presented as extensions of the various subjects covered in regular engineering courses. Topics include solar thermal and solar PV power, wind power, energy storage, tidal power, wave power, and ocean thermal energy, and hydroelectric, geothermal and biomass systems.The comprehensive textbook brings the principles of renewable energy engineering together in a single book equivalent to that of a standard engineering title.A novel feature of this unique reference is the 30 worked examples and problems highlighted at the end of each chapter. Numerical answers are provided for all the problems. Readers should be able to avoid the need to refer to several books on individual energy sources to develop a course on renewable energy.
This easy-to-read book presents an elementary yet comprehensive introduction to modern energy economics. Mathematical content is kept to a minimum, and advanced numerical concepts are placed in appendices. The two survey chapters are suitable for readers with little or no formal training in economics. Differing greatly from other energy textbooks, the book aims to provide the reader with an informed advantage. Principally intended as a textbook for undergraduate economics students, it can also be used for self-study or as a reference material.
This easy-to-read book presents an elementary yet comprehensive introduction to modern energy economics. Mathematical content is kept to a minimum, and advanced numerical concepts are placed in appendices. The two survey chapters are suitable for readers with little or no formal training in economics. Differing greatly from other energy textbooks, the book aims to provide the reader with an informed advantage. Principally intended as a textbook for undergraduate economics students, it can also be used for self-study or as a reference material.
The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) is a fast reactor system developed at Argonne National Laboratory in the decade 1984 to 1994. The IFR project developed the technology for a complete system; the reactor, the entire fuel cycle and the waste management technologies were all included in the development program. The reactor concept had important features and characteristics that were completely new and fuel cycle and waste management technologies that were entirely new developments. The reactor is a
In my late-forties, my PTSD meds stopped working, and every symptom I experienced in my twenties returned. The trauma energy that flooded me in childhood, when I could neither fight nor flee, remained within. I was prepared to do just about anything to release that buried energy and heal. In these thirty-three essays, I write of my adventures in pursuit of healing my PTSD with non-traditional medicine. (Volume 2 now available.)
When I published my first volume of PTSD essays, I was optimistic about the future. Some of my symptoms had disappeared and others had decreased in intensity or frequency. My husband's cardiac surgery appeared to have been a success and I looked forward to continued happiness living with the love of my life.But my focus on finding new ways to heal my PTSD temporarily takes a backseat to dealing with Jack's increasingly precarious health. All I'd learned about soothing my activated sympathetic nervous system and staying balanced was repeatedly put to the test as I found myself catapulted from the cocoon of safety Jack provided after my burnout to a chaotic, unpredictable world where his life sometimes hung in the balance.These fifty-two essays detail my continued efforts to release trauma energy, including a hypnotic regression seminar with Dr. Brian Weiss, long distance energy healings with Diane Goldner, Jack's unexpected spiritual experience, plants and birds who helped me, the solution for my stomach pain, and much more.
