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New Developments in Renewable Energy (Hardcover)
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New Developments in Renewable Energy (Hardcover)
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This century will definitively witness the replacement of current
fossil fuels (i.e., oil, natural gas, and coal) with renewable
energy sources. Currently, fossil fuels account for almost 80 % of
the total energy consumed worldwide and, consequently, there is
still a long way to walk before this replacement comes true.
Renewable energy-based technologies are being improved fast and
they are, little by little, reducing the development level gap with
the well-known and optimized fossil technologies. This book offers
a compendium of works describing these efforts on some of the most
representative renewable technologies. The first five chapters are
dedicated to biomass, the only renewable source of organic carbon
available on Earth and thus, the only sustainable source for fuels
and chemicals. Hydrogen is considered by many as the energy vector
of the future. While the hydrogen technologies are in their infancy
(as stressed in Chapter 6), there has been a tremendous progress in
the last years on renewable hydrogen production and storage.
Chapter 7 reviews the current state of one of the most interesting
technologies for hydrogen production to date: photocatalytic water
splitting. Photovoltaic technologies (Chapters 8 and 9), able to
directly convert sunlight into electricity, are extremely important
and have reached a high level of development. The discontinuous
nature of renewable energies obligates to develop efficient storage
systems (Chapters 10-12) such that the energy can be used when most
required. Finally, Chapters 13 and 14 summarizes the current state
of the electricity generating and tidal power technologies.
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