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Les énergies renouvelables : Histoire, état des lieux et perspectives
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ISBN: 2603012665 Year: 2001 Publisher: Lausanne : Delachaux et Niestlé,

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Innovations and Challenges of the Energy Transition in Smart City Districts.
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ISBN: 9783110777567 3110777568 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,

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As living, economic and cultural spaces, cities require a sustainable energy system and must be designed to be highly energy efficient. The book provides a framework for practitioners and scientists on how the energy transition can contribute to achieving climate goals in the building sector. Innovations and creative approaches for solutions from the lighthouse projects of the Solar Building/Energy Efficient City funding initiative are presented.


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Le choix du feu : aux origines de la crise climatique
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ISBN: 9782213625317 221362531X Year: 2007 Publisher: [Paris] : Fayard,

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Comment a-t-on pu négliger à ce point l'énergie de l'eau, du vent ou de la terre ? Des quatre éléments, notre civilisation n'en a retenu qu'un pour produire son énergie : le feu. Le pétrole, le charbon ou les grandes chaudières que sont les centrales nucléaires fournissent ainsi aujourd'hui l'essentiel de notre énergie.Alain Gras, après avoir décrit l'omniprésence du pouvoir de la chaleur dans la vie quotidienne, remonte aux mythes et aux représentations collectives du feu et réinterprète l'histoire de façon entièrement nouvelle, en particulier celle de la révolution industrielle. Il montre comment le choix du feu s'est effectué et de quelle manière il a entraîné une coupure radicale avec le monde des énergies renouvelables, qui nous empêche encore aujourd'hui de penser à une voie alternative qui nous permettrait de sortir de la crise climatique. L'auteur suggère d'autres trajectoires et propose de faire appel à nos capacités créatrices en décolonisant notre imaginaire. Car ce n'est pas le progrès technologique qui nous sauvera du malheur engendré par lui-même, c'est en reconnaissant que le règne du feu n'est qu'une contingence historique que l'on pourra se libérer de tout déterminisme fataliste.Il est urgent d'échapper à la chaleur technicienne et au moteur thermique, qu'aucun biocarburant ne rendra jamais propre, et de s'orienter vers d'autres technologies, synonymes de nouveaux modes de vie et rapports sociaux.


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Erneuerbare Energien für Regionen : Flächenbedarfe und Flächenkonkurrenzen
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Vienna TU Wien Academic Press

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Every human action consumes energy: heating, cooling, hot water, electricity and transport requirements – all of these require energy. But climate change demands that our energy needs also change, that we use more and more renewable energies and less and less C02. To do this, we must look at area requirements. In other words, what area per energy quantity per year does a renewable energy source require? Which sources require additional sealing and land use? How strongly does the production of renewable energy compete with other area and land uses? And what are the consequences for spatial and regional planning? The following publication will help answer these questions by providing a catalogue of area requirements for renewable energy sites. In addition, it makes clear that achieving integrated and regional energy planning involves not only energy technology, but requires further research into planning and participation processes. The concept of a regional cooperation area shows great potential in this aspect


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New Developments in Renewable Energy
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ISBN: 9535110403 9535163221 Year: 2013 Publisher: IntechOpen

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Renewable energy is defined as the energy which naturally occurs, covers a number of sources and technologies at different stages, and is theoretically inexhaustible. Renewable energy sources such as those who are generated from sun or wind are the most readily-available and possible solutions to address the challenge of growing energy demands in the world. Newer and environmentally friendly technologies are able to provide different social and environmental benefits such as employment and decent environment. Renewable energy technologies are crucial contributors to world energy security, reduce reliance on fossil fuels, and provide opportunities for mitigating greenhouse gases. International public opinion indicates that there is strong support for a variety of methods for solving energy supply problems, one of which is utilizing renewable energy sources. In recent years, countries realized that that the renewable energy and its sector are key components for greener economies.


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Thirty-Five Years of Long-Run Energy Forecasting : Lessons for Climate Change Policy
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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This paper sheds light on an implicit dimension of the climate policy debate: the extent to which supply-side response (emission-reducing energy technologies) may substitute for the transformation of consumption behavior and thus help get around the political difficulties surrounding such behavioral transformation. The paper performs a meta-review of long-term energy forecasts since the end of the 1960s in order to put in perspective the controversies around technological optimism about the potential for cheap, large-scale, carbon-free energy production. This retrospective analysis encompasses 116 scenarios conducted over 36 years and analyzes their predictions for a) fossil fuels, b) nuclear energy, and c) renewable energy. The analysis demonstrates how the predicted relative shares of these three types of energy have evolved since 1970, for two cases: a) predicted shares in 2010, which shows how the initial outlooks for the 2000-2010 period have been revised as a function of observed trends; and b) predicted shares for t+30, which shows how these revisions have affected medium-term prospects. The analysis shows a decrease, since 1970, in technological optimism about switching away from fossil fuels; this decrease is unsurprisingly correlated with a decline in modelers' beliefs in the suitability of nuclear energy. But, after a trend of increasing optimism, a declining trend also characterizes renewable energies in the 1980s and 1990s before a slight revival of technological optimism about renewables in the aftermath of Kyoto.


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Renewable Energy : Utilisation and System Integration
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ISBN: 9535124080 9535124072 9535142011 Year: 2016 Publisher: IntechOpen

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The development of renewable energy technologies (such as wind, solar, and biomass) has accelerated the establishment of a low-carbon society. This book provides a glimpse of some recent advancements in modelling, control, electrical generators and power converters, and social and political aspects of utilising these renewable sources of energy. It is aimed to provide some latest references for the readers who are interested in research work, energy policies, and social dimensions of renewable energy.


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Advances in Supercapacitor Technology and Applications Ⅱ
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Energy storage is a key topic for research, industry, and business, which is gaining increasing interest. Any available energy-storage technology (batteries, fuel cells, flywheels, and so on) can cover a limited part of the power-energy plane and is characterized by some inherent drawback. Supercapacitors (also known as ultracapacitors, electrochemical capacitors, pseudocapacitors, or double-layer capacitors) feature exceptional capacitance values, creating new scenarios and opportunities in both research and industrial applications, partly because the related market is relatively recent. In practice, supercapacitors can offer a trade-off between the high specific energy of batteries and the high specific power of traditional capacitors. Developments in supercapacitor technology and supporting electronics, combined with reductions in costs, may revolutionize everything from large power systems to consumer electronics. The potential benefits of supercapacitors move from the progresses in the technological processes but can be effective by the availability of the proper tools for testing, modeling, diagnosis, sizing, management and technical-economic analyses. This book collects some of the latest developments in the field of supercapacitors, ranging from new materials to practical applications, such as energy storage, uninterruptible power supplies, smart grids, electrical vehicles, advanced transportation and renewable sources.


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Offshore Wind Farms
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ISBN: 3039285637 3039285629 Year: 2020 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The coastal zone is the host to many human activities, which have significantly increased in the last decades. However, sea level rise and more frequent storm events severely affect beaches and coastal structures, with negative consequences and dramatic impacts on coastal communities. These aspects add to typical coastal problems, like flooding and beach erosion, which already leading to large economic losses and human fatalities. Modeling is thus fundamental for an exhaustive understanding of the nearshore region in the present and future environment. Innovative tools and technologies may help to better understand coastal processes in terms of hydrodynamics, sediment transport, bed morphology, and their interaction with coastal structures. This book collects several contributions focusing on nearshore dynamics, and span among several time and spatial scales using both physical and numerical approaches. The aim is to describe the most recent advances in coastal dynamics.

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