Renewable energy/ Edited by Bent Sørensen

Volume 1; Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; List of abbreviations; Renewable Energy: Four-Volume Overview; Volume I: Editorial Introduction; Part I History; 1 Energy Use; 2 Early Sails; 3 Shipbuilding; 4 Power; 5 Early Evolution of Power Engineering; 6 Heron's Windmill; 7 Engineering in Arabic-Islamic Civilization; 8 A Note on Windmills; 9 Passive Cooling Systems in Iranian Architecture; 10 On Climate as Determining the Style of the House; 11 Passive Solar; 12 Archimedes and Burning Mirrors; 13 History of Applications Part II Flows and Resources14 World Maps of the Components of the Heat Balance; 15 The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project; 16 Calculation of Direct Solar and Diffuse Radiation in Israel; 17 On Estimates of the Atmospheric Energy Cycle; 18 Wind Resources 1: The European Wind Climatology; 19 Wind Resources 2: Calculational Methods; 20 Power Spectrum of Horizontal Wind Speed in the Frequency Range from 0.0007 to 900 Cycles per Hour; 21 Balancing Power Supply from Wind Energy Converting Systems; 22 A New Method for Estimating Offshore Wind Potentials 23 Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Net Primary Production24 What is Geothermal Energy?; 25 California Wave Energy Resource Evaluation; Part III Demand; 26 Models of Decision Making and Residential Energy Use; 27 A Sustainable Energy Future: Construction of Demand and Renewable Energy Supply Scenarios; 28 Efficient Use of Energy; 29 A Study of Chinese Strategies for Energy-Efficient Housing Developments from an Architect's Perspective, Combined with Swedish Experiences and Game Theory; 30 Examples of Energy-Efficient Architecture from Developing and Developed Countries 31 A Naturally Air-Conditioned Building32 Underground Houses; 33 Dimensioning of the Solar Heating System in the Zero-Energy House in Denmark; 34 Villa Vision; 35 Electrochromic Smart Windows: Energy Efficiency and Device Aspects; 36 Improved Efficiency in Domestic Electricity Use; 37 Assessing Current Vehicle Performance and Simulating the Performance of Hydrogen and Hybrid Cars; 38 Industrial Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation; Index; Volume 2; Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; List of abbreviations Volume II: Editorial IntroductionPart I Solar Electricity; 1 Photovoltaic Effect of p-n Junctions in Germanium; 2 Photovoltaic Effect in p-n Junctions; 3 Photovoltaic Effect in GaAs p-n Junctions and Solar Energy Conversion; 4 Detailed Balance Limit of Efficiency of p-n Junction Solar Cells; 5 Increasing the Efficiency of Ideal Solar Cells by Photon-Induced Transitions at Intermediate Levels; 6 Solar Cell Efficiency Tables (Version 22); 7 Theory of the Electrical and PV Properties of Polycrystalline Silicon