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Harnessing Renewable Energy in Electric Power Systems
Reflecting its reliance on fossil fuels, the electric power industry produces the majority of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. The need for a revolution in the industry becomes further apparent given that 'decarbonization' means an increasing electrification of other sectors of the economy in particular, through a switch from gasoline to electric vehicles. Of the options for producing electric power without significant greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy is most attractive to policymakers, as it promises increased national self-reliance on energy supplies and the creation of new industries and jobs, without the safety and political concerns of nuclear power or the unproven techno...
Concentrating Solar Power in Developing Countries
Concentrating solar thermal technologies have a clear potential for scaling up renewable energy at the utility level, thereby diversifying the generation portfolio mix, powering development, and mitigating climate change. The report analyzes current experience in designing and implementing regulatory frameworks supporting the technology
Environmental Security and Environmental Management: The Role of Risk Assessment
The concept of “environmental security” has emerged as one basis for understanding international conflicts. This phrase can mean a variety of things. It can signify security issues stemming from environmental concerns or conflicting needs, or it can mean that the environment is treated as a resource for the long term, and the question is what should be done today to preserve the quality of the environment in the future. In the same way that energy security is about ensuring access to energy for the long run, it can also mean that pressing environmental concerns create a situation where different countries and communities are forced to collaboratively design a unified response, even if co...
Facing Global Environmental Change
The year 2007 could perhaps accurately be described as the year when climate change finally received the attention that this challenge deserves globally. Much of the information and knowledge that was created in this field during the year was the result of the findings of the Fourth - sessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which were disseminated on a large scale and reported extensively by the media. This was the result not only of a heightened interest on the part of the public on various aspects of climate change, but also because the IPCC itself proactively attempted to spread the findings of its AR4 to the public at large. The interest generated on the scientific realities of climate change was further enhanced by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC and former Vice President of the US, Al Gore. By taking this decision in favour of a leader who has done a great deal to create awareness on c- mate change, and a body that assesses all scientific aspects of climate change and disseminates the result of its findings, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has clearly drawn the link between climate change and peace in the world.
World in Transition 3
'The publication of World in Transition: Towards Sustainable Energy Systems is timely indeed. The World Summit on Sustainable Development gave great prominence to this challenge, but failed to agree on a quantitative, time-bound target for the introduction of renewable energy sources. The German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) has now produced a report with a global focus, which is essential in view of the global impacts of climate change. The report provides a convincing long-term analysis, which is also essential. Global energy policies have to take a long-term perspective, over the next 50 to 100 years, while providing concrete guidance for decision-makers to implement now. There...
Solar Energy Resource Management for Electricity Generation from Local Level to Global Scale
This book addresses the rapid developments in the new field of solar resource knowledge as a reflection of growing needs of management of renewable energy resources. The authors have structured the content of this work as a set of contributions from the research, international and commercial institutions. The chapters discuss the availability of new primary data, basic concepts of research trends and approaches developed for providing higher resolution data and value-added products in an operational mode. Based on the experience from commercial and aid-providing sphere, individual and more generic barriers have been identified and solutions for overcoming them are discussed. The approaches exploiting geographical information systems, integrating spatial data and methods, outline directions for decision-making and management of distributed energy systems, considering regional and time variability at various hierarchical scales. The final contributions point out that the recent developments gave an impetus for complementing the traditional applications of Earth observation data by renewable energy programs.
Welt im Wandel: Energiewende zur Nachhaltigkeit
Das Recht der Entwicklungsländer auf Entwicklung und die Erhaltung der natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen sind die wesentlichen Herausforderungen bei einer Energiewende zur Nachhaltigkeit und der Ausgangspunkt des vorliegenden Gutachtens. Wenn die Politik sofort entschieden handelt, ist die Transformation der globalen Energiesysteme ohne gravierende Einschränkungen möglich und finanzierbar: Die Energieeffizienz muss gesteigert, der Anteil fossiler Energieträger deutlich verringert und die erneuerbaren Energien massiv gefördert werden. Für den Einstieg in das Solarzeitalter hat der Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU) einen Fahrplan mit konkreten Zielen und Maßnahmen entwickelt.
L'impossible capitalisme vert
Dans la logique de La Simplicité volontaire contre le mythe de l'abondance, de Paul Ariès, et de Au temps des catastrophes, d'Isabelle Stengers, ce livre articule les luttes économiques et sociales au combat pour la protection de l'environnement. (Cette édition numérique reprend, à l'identique, la deuxième édition de 2012) D'un côté, trois milliards de gens vivent dans des conditions indignes de l'humanité. Enseignement, santé, énergie, eau, alimentation, mobilité, logement : individuellement leurs besoins sont modestes mais, au total, ils sont énormes. Les satisfaire n'est possible qu'en augmentant la production matérielle. De l'autre côté, deux cents ans de productivisme ...
Wirtschaftlichkeit solarthermischer Kraftwerke (CSP) am Beispiel Desertec-Projekt unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Der Weltenergieverbrauch ist seit Beginn der Industrialisierung ausnehmend stark angestiegen, wobei ein Mensch heute im Durchschnitt etwa 15mal mehr Energie als vor 130 Jahren verbraucht. In absehbarer Zukunft wird sich dieser Wachstumstrend noch weiter steigern. Die weltweite Energieversorgung basiert dabei hauptsächlich auf der Verbrennung fossiler Energieträger. Dadurch werden Luftschadstoffe wie Schwefeldioxid und Stickoxide freigesetzt. Ferner gelangen innerhalb weniger Jahrzehnte zusätzliche Mengen an Kohlendioxid in die Atmosphäre, die über mehrere Jahrmillionen bei der Entstehung der fossilen Brennstoffe als Kohlenstoff gebunden wurden. Dies führt zur ...
