Talking renewables :a renewable energy primer for everyone /

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"Version: 20250301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. The science and technology of renewable energy. 1. Energy and our economy -- 1.1. Energy and our changing world -- 1.2. Our energy needs -- 1.3. Forms of energy -- 1.4. Primary and end-use energy -- 1.5. Renewable energy -- 1.6. Activities -- 1.7. An overview of the rest of the book -- 1.8. Summary2. Bioenergy and hydropower -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Bioenergy -- 2.3. Hydropower -- 2.4. Summary3. Solar and wind energy -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Solar energy -- 3.3. Wind energy -- 3.4. Summary4. Geothermal and ocean energy -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Geothermal energy -- 4.3. Ocean energy -- 4.4. Summarypart II. Requirements for renewable energy production. 5. Renewable energy resource assessment -- 5.1. Introduction--the essential requirements for renewable energy development -- 5.2. Solar resources -- 5.3. Wind resources -- 5.4. Hydro resources -- 5.5. Biomass and biofuels (bioenergy) -- 5.6. Summary6. Other key requirements for renewable energy -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Human capacity -- 6.3. Institutional capacity -- 6.4. Policies and legislations -- 6.5. Summarypart III. Renewable energy in application. 7. Understanding the dynamics of RE production -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Making the right renewable energy choices -- 7.3. How much energy can an RET produce? -- 7.4. Basic economics of renewable energy -- 7.5. Myths and misconceptions about the cost of RE -- 7.6. New renewables and RETs -- 7.7. Summary8. Putting renewable energy to use -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Renewable energy in the global energy landscape -- 8.3. Renewable energy and poverty -- 8.4. Renewable energy and the Sustainable Development Goals -- 8.5. Renewable energy and climate change mitigation -- 8.6. Summarypart IV. Net zero and the energy transition. 9. The science of climate change -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Global warming -- 9.3. Estimating emissions -- 9.4. Summary10. The Paris Agreement and its implementation -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. The UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement -- 10.3. NDCs and the COP outcomes -- 10.4. Summary11. Strategies for achieving net zero -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Key requirements for a viable net-zero strategy -- 11.3. Net-zero case study--Australia -- 11.4. Is nuclear power a viable option? -- 11.5. Summary12. Achieving net zero through the energy transition -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Global net-zero implementation pathways -- 12.3. Energy transition technologies -- 12.4. Technology transition matrix -- 12.5. Concluding remarks : the energy transition and net-zero strategies -- 12.6. Summary.Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.Since the publication of the first edition of this book, the role of renewable energy within the energy sector has transformed. This new edition responds to the increased demand for information on renewables, driven by the growing interest in the field and the Paris Agreement. The second edition maintains the original aim of providing an introductory book on renewables. However, it expands its content to address the evolving role of renewable energy in the energy transition. The four-part book begins with an introduction to the science, technology, and production of renewable energy. It then explores energy security and climate change mitigation, and concludes with a new section on the role of renewable energy in climate change mitigation, the Paris Agreement, and net-zero strategies (including a critique of nuclear energy as a clean energy alternative). Part of IOP Series in Renewable and Sustainable Power.Decision-makers and non-scientific professionals, including public and private-sector decision-makers and CEOs, economists and financial experts who are looking to use and invest in renewable energy technologies and require an expeditious overview of their uses and relative merits. Energy, environment and sustainable development practitioners who need to learn about the renewable energy technologies without delving too deeply into the scientific and technological details of their design and production. NGOs and field-workers in sustainable development who need to quickly ascertain which renewable energy technologies will best serve the development needs of their communities. The new material in Part 4 has been included to provide all such readers with a basic introduction to the net-zero strategies to emissions reductions now adopted by most countries, and how they are driving the current global energy transition.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Anirudh Singh PhD, is an Honorary Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, specialising in Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation. He previously held a professorship at the University of Fiji and has 15 years of experience teaching and supervising graduate research.Anirudh is currently an Associate Editor for Management of Environmental Quality--An International Journal, and was Guest Editor for the Special issue of Energy Policy (2016), and Section Editor for the Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation (Springer, 2015). He was also an Expert Reviewer for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).Over his writing career, which began with the first edition of this book, Anirudh has published three books in the renewable energy/climate change mitigation area for three international publishers, the last of which was published by IOP in 2023.Title from PDF title page (viewed on April 1, 2025).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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