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Retaining the successful format of the first edition and building on its solid grounding in the principles of renewable energy resources, this second edition has been revised in line with the latest advances in the field to include new technologies and an assessment of their impact. Considering each technology in depth from both scientific and environmental perspectives, it covers solar energy, photovoltaic, wind, wave, tidal and hydro power, biofuels, geothermals and more, as well as featuring a new chapter on institutional factors, including economics. In addition, extra worked problems and case studies are also provided to help readers put theory into practice. Reading and web-based material for further study is indicated after each chapter, making this text ideal, not only for practitioners, but also for students on multi-disciplinary masters degrees in science and engineering as well specialist modules in science and engineering first degrees.

biomassa --- zonne-energie --- hernieuwbare energie --- wind power --- Relation between energy and economics --- windenergie --- Renewable energy sources. --- hernieuwbare grondstoffen --- hydrodynamica --- warmteoverdracht --- zonnestraling --- zonneboiler --- zonne-energie systeem --- fotovoltaïsch systeem --- waterkracht --- windkrachtcentrale --- fotosynthese --- golfenergie --- getijdenenergie --- geothermische energie --- otec (ocean thermal energy conversion) --- biobrandstof --- energieopslag --- (zie ook: warmtetransport) --- (zie ook: biomassa vergassing) --- (zie ook: brandstof; plantaardige olie) --- (zie ook: eco-brandstof) --- Renewable energy sources --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy

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This book results from a Special Issue related to the latest progress in the thermodynamics of machines systems and processes since the premonitory work of Carnot. Carnot invented his famous cycle and generalized the efficiency concept for thermo-mechanical engines. Since that time, research progressed from the equilibrium approach to the irreversible situation that represents the general case. This book illustrates the present state-of-the-art advances after one or two centuries of consideration regarding applications and fundamental aspects. The research is moving fast in the direction of economic and environmental aspects. This will probably continue during the coming years. This book mainly highlights the recent focus on the maximum power of engines, as well as the corresponding first law efficiency upper bounds.

thermodynamics --- optimization --- entropy analysis --- Carnot engine --- modelling with time durations --- steady-state modelling --- transient conditions --- converter irreversibility --- sequential optimization --- Finite physical Dimensions Optimal Thermodynamics --- global efficiency --- energy efficiency --- heat engine --- heat pump --- utilization --- Carnot efficiency --- comparison --- thermal system --- cycle analysis --- second law of thermodynamics --- Clausius Statement --- theorem of the equivalence of transformations --- linear irreversible thermodynamics --- maximum power output --- maximum ecological Function --- maximum efficient power function --- enzymatic reaction model --- ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) --- plate heat exchanger --- finite-time thermodynamics --- heat transfer entropy --- entropy production --- new efficiency limits --- two-stage LNG compressor --- energy losses --- exergy destruction --- exergy efficiency --- Stirling cycle --- refrigerator --- heat exchanger --- second law --- n/a

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This Special Issue is entitled “Environmental Sustainability in Maritime Infrastructures”. Oceans and coastal areas are essential in our lives from several different points of view: social, economic, and health. Given the importance of these areas for human life, not only for the present but also for the future, it is necessary to plan future infrastructures, and maintain and adapt to the changes the existing ones. All of this taking into account the sustainability of our planet. A very significant percentage of the world's population lives permanently or enjoys their vacation periods in coastal zones, which makes them very sensitive areas, with a very high economic value and as a focus of adverse effects on public health and ecosystems. Therefore, it is considered very relevant and of great interest to launch this Special Issue to cover any aspects related to the vulnerability of coastal systems and their inhabitants (water pollution, coastal flooding, climate change, overpopulation, urban planning, waste water, plastics at sea, effects on ecosystems, etc.), as well as the use of ocean resources (fisheries, energy, tourism areas, etc.).

Technology: general issues --- floating offshore wind --- concrete wind platform --- economic feasibility --- IRR --- NPV --- LCOE --- feasibility study --- offshore wind --- levelized cost of energy (LCOE) --- wave energy --- software --- EU ETS --- Emission allowances --- Greenhouse gas emissions --- Transparency --- Accounting regulation --- tidal current energy --- life cycle assessment --- ISO --- greenhouse gases emissions --- port infrastructure --- carbon footprint --- offshore waste disposal facility --- hazard analysis --- risk matrix --- subsystem --- environmental impact --- ocean renewable energy --- OTEC --- environmental and social impacts --- energy production --- renewable energy --- zero emissions port --- wave energy converter --- young mangroves --- mangrove restoration --- portable reef design --- field observation --- Amami Oshima --- geographic information system --- back-propagation neural network --- rainfall --- historical flood --- prediction --- formal planning --- informal planning --- spatial planning process --- coastal area spatial planning --- planning levels --- community involvement --- territorial community --- coastal communities --- coastal fisheries --- dry fish --- livelihood --- vulnerability --- AHP --- urban regeneration --- littoral landscape --- Mediterranean architecture --- sustainable mobility --- transport infrastructure --- greenway

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This Special Issue is entitled “Environmental Sustainability in Maritime Infrastructures”. Oceans and coastal areas are essential in our lives from several different points of view: social, economic, and health. Given the importance of these areas for human life, not only for the present but also for the future, it is necessary to plan future infrastructures, and maintain and adapt to the changes the existing ones. All of this taking into account the sustainability of our planet. A very significant percentage of the world's population lives permanently or enjoys their vacation periods in coastal zones, which makes them very sensitive areas, with a very high economic value and as a focus of adverse effects on public health and ecosystems. Therefore, it is considered very relevant and of great interest to launch this Special Issue to cover any aspects related to the vulnerability of coastal systems and their inhabitants (water pollution, coastal flooding, climate change, overpopulation, urban planning, waste water, plastics at sea, effects on ecosystems, etc.), as well as the use of ocean resources (fisheries, energy, tourism areas, etc.).

Technology: general issues --- floating offshore wind --- concrete wind platform --- economic feasibility --- IRR --- NPV --- LCOE --- feasibility study --- offshore wind --- levelized cost of energy (LCOE) --- wave energy --- software --- EU ETS --- Emission allowances --- Greenhouse gas emissions --- Transparency --- Accounting regulation --- tidal current energy --- life cycle assessment --- ISO --- greenhouse gases emissions --- port infrastructure --- carbon footprint --- offshore waste disposal facility --- hazard analysis --- risk matrix --- subsystem --- environmental impact --- ocean renewable energy --- OTEC --- environmental and social impacts --- energy production --- renewable energy --- zero emissions port --- wave energy converter --- young mangroves --- mangrove restoration --- portable reef design --- field observation --- Amami Oshima --- geographic information system --- back-propagation neural network --- rainfall --- historical flood --- prediction --- formal planning --- informal planning --- spatial planning process --- coastal area spatial planning --- planning levels --- community involvement --- territorial community --- coastal communities --- coastal fisheries --- dry fish --- livelihood --- vulnerability --- AHP --- urban regeneration --- littoral landscape --- Mediterranean architecture --- sustainable mobility --- transport infrastructure --- greenway

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Comment Adolf Hitler, enfant des régions les plus écartées d’Autriche, a-t-il pu avoir cet inimaginable ascension en Allemagne ? Comment, dans le milieu provincial où il a grandi au sein d’une famille insignifi ante, a-t-il pu développer un charisme diabolique, réussissant à entraîner tant d’hommes dans ses funestes desseins ? Comment, quand et pourquoi les obsessions et les préjugés d’Hitler se sont-ils formés ? Comment a-t-il pu développer une telle idéologie meurtrière ? Trente et une lettres du fonctionnaire des Douanes Alois Hitler, père d’Adolf, qui dormaient oubliées dans le grenier d’une ferme de Haute-Autriche, révèlent aujourd’hui – pour la première fois – une vision authentique de la famille Hitler. Elles permettent à l’historien viennois Roman Sandgruber de renouveler en profondeur le récit de l’enfance et de la jeunesse du futur dictateur. Il jette ainsi, avec la maîtrise que lui a reconnue la presse internationale, une lumière nouvelle sur les rumeurs et les légendes obscures qui entourent la figure du père, en dessinant en même temps une image saisissante de l’éducation du Führer.

histoire contemporaine --- biographie --- national-socialisme --- parenté --- radniecība --- συγγένεια --- sugulus --- pais --- marrëdhënie --- pokrewieństwo --- сродство --- parentela --- однос --- slægtskab --- príbuzenstvo --- srodstvo --- sorodstvo --- роднинска връзка --- gaol --- relationship --- relazzjoni --- Verwandtschaft --- släktskap --- parentesco --- verwantschap --- příbuzenský vztah --- rudenie --- hozzátartozói viszony --- sukulaisuussuhde --- giminystė --- vecāki --- mama --- far --- közeli hozzátartozó --- madre --- apa --- föräldrar --- père --- moeder --- otac --- Eltern --- äiti --- fader --- anya --- příbuzenský poměr --- mamă --- rodiče --- pai --- роднинска врска --- majka --- parents --- genitori --- consanguineità --- vanemad --- otec --- rodičia --- γονείς --- μητέρα --- padres --- moder --- mother --- rodbinska veza --- rokonság --- atë --- prindër --- tėvas --- ema --- father --- isä --- Vater --- grado di parentela --- mãe --- mère --- motina --- tėvai --- roditelji --- tată --- πατέρας --- māte --- vincolo di parentela --- paternità --- mor --- nënë --- szülők --- ouders --- татко --- πατρότητα --- părinți --- padre --- parente in linea diretta --- isa --- forældre --- мајка --- родители --- vanhemmat --- tēvs --- vader --- příbuzenstvo --- Mutter --- parente in linea collaterale --- rokoni viszony --- matka --- elulookirjeldus --- bijografija --- beathaisnéis --- Biografie --- biography --- elämäkerta --- biografia --- biografija --- biografía --- βιογραφία --- biografie --- životopis --- življenjepis --- биография --- биографија --- életrajz --- biogrāfija --- biografi --- autobiografi --- önéletrajz --- autobiography --- gyvenimo aprašymas --- autobiografija --- autobiografía --- semblanza --- biografický slovník --- autobiografie --- autobiogrāfija --- автобиографија --- omaelämäkerta --- självbiografi --- biográfia --- biograafia --- autobiografia --- önéletírás --- selvbiografi --- αυτοβιογραφία --- Biographie --- Autobiografie --- memoárová literatura --- autobiographie --- autobiograafia --- stair chomhaimseartha --- contemporary history --- suvremena povijest --- historia contemporánea --- samtidshistoria --- sodobna zgodovina --- Geschichte der Gegenwart --- istorie contemporană --- storia contemporanea --- hedendaagse geschiedenis --- soudobá historie --- nykyhistoria --- súčasné dejiny --- lähiajalugu --- šiuolaikinė istorija --- História Contemporânea --- samtidshistorie --- legújabb kori történelem --- σύγχρονη ιστορία --- histori bashkëkohore --- storja kontemporanja --- съвременна история --- jauno laiku vēsture --- historia współczesna --- современа историја --- савремена историја --- tegenwoordige tijd --- età contemporanea --- gegenwärtige Epoche --- современа епоха --- историја на новата ера --- nutidshistoria --- historie současnosti --- nykyaika --- σύγχρονη εποχή --- nutidshistorie --- современа ера --- Gegenwartsgeschichte --- σύγχρονα χρόνια --- nutid --- nieuwste geschiedenis --- epoka bashkëkohore --- jelenkor --- Idade Contemporânea --- актуелна историја --- âge contemporain --- contemporary era --- suvremena era --- Edad Contemporánea --- nüüdisaeg --- současná historie --- samtid --- époque contemporaine --- šiuolaikinė era --- Hitler, Alois, --- Hitler, Adolf --- Schickelgruber, Alois, --- National-socialisme --- Hitler, Alois --- Jeunesse. --- Psychologie. --- National Socialism --- nacional-socializëm --- socjalizm narodowy --- nacionalsocijalizam --- национал-социализъм --- nacionální socialismus --- Soċjaliżmu Nazzjonali --- nacionālsociālisms --- nemzetiszocializmus --- nazionalsocialismo --- kansallissosialismi --- nacionalsocializmas --- nacionalsocialismo --- национал-социјализам --- nationaal-socialisme --- rahvussotsialism --- εθνικοσοσιαλισμός --- Sóisialachas Náisiúnta --- Nationalsozialismus --- nacionálny socializmus --- nationalsocialisme --- național-socialism --- nationalsocialism --- nacional-socialismo --- nacionalsocializem --- нацизам --- nacizmas --- neonazism --- nynazism --- neonatsism --- ναζισμός --- neonazisme --- neonácizmus --- neonacismus --- nazism --- Nazism --- uusnatsismi --- neonazizëm --- νεοναζισμός --- Nazismus --- nácizmus --- neo-Nazism --- neonazist --- nynazist --- neonazismo --- nacisms --- néonazisme --- nacizam --- Neonazismus --- nazisme --- natsismi --- neonacizmus --- neonacizam --- natsism --- nacismus --- neonacizmas --- neonazi --- nynazisme --- neonacisms --- nazismo --- nazizëm --- nacizmus --- národní socialismus --- Gitler, Adolʹf, --- Hsi-tʻe-le, --- Hitlar, ʼAdolf, --- Chitler, Adolphos, --- Hitler, Adolph, --- Khitler, Adolf, --- Hitlerus, Adolfus, --- Hiṭlar, Aṭālpu, --- היטלר --- היטלר, אדולף, --- National socialism --- Hitler, Adolf,