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Energy and Sustainability IX (Hardcover)
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Energy and Sustainability IX (Hardcover)
Series: WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 254
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The world’s economy is fuelled by energy. Depletion of resources
and severe environmental effects resulting from the continuous use
of fossil fuels has motivated an increasing amount of interest in
renewable energy resources and the search for sustainable energy
policies. This volume contains research papers presented at the 9th
International conference on Energy and Sustainability. The changes
required to progress from an economy mainly focussed on
hydrocarbons to one taking advantage of sustainable renewable
energy resources require considerable scientific research, as well
as the development of new engineering systems. Energy policies and
management are of primary importance to achieve the development of
sustainability and need to be consistent with recent advances in
energy production and distribution. In many cases, the challenges
lie as much in the conversion from renewable energies (wind, solar,
etc.) to useful forms (electricity, heat, fuel) at an acceptable
cost including damage to the environment as in the integration of
these resources into the existing infrastructure. The diverse
topics covered by the papers in this book involve collaboration
between different disciplines in order to arrive at optimum
solutions, including studies of materials, energy networks, new
energy resources, storage solutions, waste to energy systems, smart
grids and many others. These research papers put a focus on
sustainability across the multidisciplinary components of urban
planning, the challenges presented by the increasing size of
cities, the number of resources required and the complexity of
modern society.
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