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Small wind turbines for electricity and irrigation : design and construction / by Rosato, Mario Alejandro

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 Small Wind Turbines: A Technology for Energy Independence and Sustainable Agriculture -- chapter 2 General Theory of Wind-Driven Machines -- chapter 3 Simplified Aerodynamic Theory for the Design of the Rotor’s Blades -- chapter 4 Practical Design of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines -- chapter 5 Practical Design of Aerodynamic Action Vertical Axis Wind Turbines -- chapter 6 Practical Design of Savonius Turbines and Derived Models -- chapter 7 Engineering of the Support Structures for Wind Turbines -- chapter 8 Probability Distribution of the Wind Speed and Preliminary Design of Wind Power Installations -- chapter 9 Sizing Energy Storage Systems -- chapter 10 Design of Wind Pumping Systems -- chapter 11 Unconventional Wind-Driven Machines -- chapter 12 Aerodynamic Characteristics of Blunt Bodies and Airfoils.…”
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Confronting global climate change : experiments and applications in the tropics / by Harris, Mark (Mark Anglin)

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Introduction to renewable power systems and the environment with R / by Acevedo, Miguel F.

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Environmental Systems, the Carbon Cycle, and Fossil Fuels -- chapter 3 Fundamentals of Direct Current Electric Circuits -- chapter 4 Thermodynamics -- chapter 5 Electrical Storage Elements, Basics of AC Circuits, and AC-DC Conversion -- chapter 6 More Thermodynamics State Functions: Entropy, Enthalpy, and Free Energy -- chapter 7 Coal- and Steam-Based Processes -- chapter 8 Alternating Current (AC) Circuits and Power -- chapter 9 Gas and Liquid Fuels: Gas Turbines and Combustion Engines -- chapter 10 Transformers and Three-Phase Circuits -- chapter 11 Power Systems and the Electric Power Grid -- chapter 12 Hydroelectric Power Generation -- chapter 13 Wind Resources and Wind Power -- chapter 14 Solar Power.…”
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Stochastics of Environmental and Financial Economics Centre of Advanced Study, Oslo, Norway, 2014-2015 /

Table of Contents: “…Path-dependent Kolmogorov equations associated with the frame of a Brownian motion -- Nonlinear Young integrals via fractional calculus -- A weak limit theorem for numerical approximation of Brownian semi-stationary processes -- Non-elliptic SPDEs and ambit fields: existence of densities -- Dynamic risk measures and path-dependent second order PDEs -- Pricing CoCos with a market trigger -- Quantification of model risk in quadratic hedging in finance -- Risk-sensitive mean-field type control under partial observation -- Risk aversion in modeling of cap-and-trade mechanism and optimal design of emission markets -- Exponential ergodicity of the jump-diffusion CIR process -- Optimal control of predictive mean-field equations and applications to finance -- Modelling the impact of wind power production on electricity prices by regime-switching Levy semistationary processes -- Pricing options on EU ETS certificates with a time-varying market price of risk model.…”
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A history of energy flows : from human labor to renewable power / by Penna, Anthony N.

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Essays in energy /

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The path to more sustainable energy systems how do we get there from here? / by Ebenhack, Ben W.

Table of Contents: “…"Renewable" energy resources -- 3.1 A note -- 3.2 Earth's energy allowance -- 3.3 The solar resource -- 3.3.1 Solar photovoltaic technology -- 3.3.2 Concentrating solar power -- 3.3.3 Passive solar energy -- 3.3.4 Solar energy distribution and installed capacity -- 3.4 Biomass and biofuel resources -- 3.4.1 Ethanol -- 3.4.2 Biodiesel -- 3.4.3 Biogas -- 3.4.4 Biomass and biofuels distribution and production -- 3.5 Hydropower -- 3.5.1 Hydro potential distribution -- 3.5.2 Tidal and wave power -- 3.6 Wind power -- 3.6.1 Wind turbines -- 3.6.2 Wind distribution and installed capacity -- 3.7 Geothermal -- 3.7.1 Geothermal distribution and installed capacity -- 3.7.2 Direct use applications --…”
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