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Ensuring sustainable economic development on the basis of the finite and depleting stocks of natural resources is crucial to the future of humanity on the disturbingly overcrowding, increasingly thirsty, and energy-guzzling planet.The pros and cons of various options available for sustainable management of diverse resources such as fossil fuels, biofuels, solar energy, hydrogen energy, photovoltaics, solar cells, timber, mangroves, marine fisheries and others are outlined and illustrated with appropriate examples. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Energy Policy, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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BASREC (Baltic Sea Region Energy Cooperation) was established in 1999. It brings together the 11 countries around the Baltic Sea (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, and Sweden) and the European Commission. BASREC offers a unique regional forum, in which policies and projects of regional and broader significance can be prepared and implemented. Five working groups within BASREC, for Bioenergy, Climate Change, Electricity, Energy Efficiency and Gas, were active in the period 2003-2005. These working groups quite well represent the priorities of regional energy cooperation in the Baltic Sea region. Since the EU participates actively in BASREC activities, this kind of cooperation can provide for the EU sustainable energy policy promotion in non-member countries, such as Russia, and can help sharing the experience between old and new member states as well as facilitate the know how transfer from such highly developed and advanced in sustainable development countries as Iceland and Norway to less developed ones. ... Read more

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This volume represents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB’10, held in the City of Brighton and Hove in the United Kingdom, and organised by KES International.

Organised by the KES International organisation, SEB'10 formed a welcome opportunity for researchers in subjects related to sustainability, renewable energy technology, and applications in the built environment to mix with other scientists, industrialists and stakeholders in the field.

SEB'10 attracted papers on a range of renewable energy and sustainability related topics and in addition the conference explored two innovative themes:-

·         The application of intelligent sensing, control, optimisation and modelling techniques to sustainability

and

·         The technology of sustainable buildings. 

These techniques could ultimately be applied to the intelligent building

SEB’10 attracted about 100 submissions from around the world.  These were subjected to a two-stage blind peer-review process.  With the objective of producing a high quality conference, the best 30% of these were selected for presentation at the conference and publication in this volume of proceedings. 

The papers in this volume are grouped into the five themes under which they were presented: Building Sustainability, Sustainable Power Generation, Sustainable Energy Policy and Strategy, Energy Monitoring and Management and Solar Energy Technology. 

These proceedings form an interesting and informative collection of papers, useful as a resource for further research, and a valuable source of information for those interested in the subject.

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This digital document is an article from Plastics Engineering, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on July 1, 2009. The length of the article is 3538 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: ANTEC[R]@NPE 2009 wrapup: largest plastics event showcases sustainability, energy savings.(NORTH AMERICA)
Author: Richard Stewart
Publication: Plastics Engineering (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2009
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 65Issue: 7Page: 10(8)

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The global distribution of water and energy is not evenly balanced. Moving into the 21st century, more attention must be placed on sustaining our quality and supply of water and conventional energy. At the same time new sources of both need to be addressed. The facts are that water and energy are separate issues but inextricably linked. Society depends upon energy, which is a global issue. Individual human survival depends upon water. Energy sustainability must be dealt with in a global context because energy resources are valuable enough to be transported to needy areas. Water supply, however, continues to be a regional or local issue, rather than a global issue. The volume of water needed in deficient areas cannot be transported to them within the modern economy. The necessity for global solutions to availability of resources increases daily and geologists have a large role to play.

This book is published by the Kansas Geological Survey in association with the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the AAPG Division of Environmental Geosciences. It provides a compilation of issues and possible resolutions ranging from improved water management practices to the potential for developing mineral resources beyond the planet Earth.

American Association Of Petroleum Engineers (AAPG)

Founded in 1917, we are the world's largest professional geological society, with over 30,000 members.

We are a pillar of the world-wide scientific community. Our books foster scientific research, advance the science of geology and promote the most effective use of petroleum extraction & processing technology and practice.

Some of the areas we publish in include:

GIS
Petroleum Engineering
Well Log Analysis
Geological Modeling
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This digital document is an article from Energy Optimization News, published by Business Communications Company, Inc. on April 1, 2004. The length of the article is 615 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ecology Building Showcases Sustainability.
Publication: Energy Optimization News (Newsletter)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: Business Communications Company, Inc.
Volume: 1Issue: 12

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This volume represents the proceedings of the First International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB’09, held in the City of Brighton and Hove in the United Kingdom, organized by KES International with the assistance of the World Renewable Energy Congress / Network, and hosted by the University of Brighton.

KES International is a knowledge transfer organization, which for over a decade has provided high-quality conference events and publishing opportunities for researchers in the area of Knowledge Based and Intelligent information and Engineering Systems. KES International is a community consisting of several thousand research scientists and engineers who participate in KES activities. Now KES is starting to make a contribution in the area of Sustainability and Renewable Energy with this first conference in a series dedicated to renewable energy and its application to domestic and other buildings.

In addition to featuring papers from a range of Renewable Energy and Sustainability related topics, SEB’09 was intended to explore two innovative themes: the application of intelligent sensing, control, optimization and modeling techniques to sustainability; the technology of sustainable buildings.

This volume contains 43 papers selected from a much larger number of submissions after reviews by experts in the field. The papers are grouped in the themes under which they were presented, namely Smart Sustainability, Solar and Wind Energy, Technologies for Sustainable Buildings, Clean and Renewable Energy, Engineering Intelligence and Energy Technologies, Building Energy Efficiency and Performance and Novel Techniques for Energy Efficiency.

We believe these proceedings will form a record of recent research results, useful for engineers, students, professionals, managers and many others working in this leading-edge field.

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This digital document is an article from New Life Journal, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 861 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Striving for sustainability: Yancey County's Energy Exchange.(buying local)
Author: Ginger Kowal
Publication: New Life Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 7Issue: 4Page: 20(1)

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This digital document is a journal article from Energy & Buildings, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Flywheel energy storage (FES) can have energy fed in the rotational mass of a flywheel, store it as kinetic energy, and release out upon demand. It is a significant and attractive manner for energy futures 'sustainable'. The key factors of FES technology, such as flywheel material, geometry, length and its support system were described, which directly influence the amount of energy storage and flywheel specific energy. It is very suitable to such applications that involve many charge-discharge cycles and little in the way of long-term storage applications including International Space Station (ISS), Low Earth Orbits (LEO), overall efficiency improvement and pulse power transfer for Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs), Power Quality (PQ) events, and many stationary applications. Design margins, fault protection and containment were considered as three good approaches to solve safety issue. Vacuum enclosures or helium-air mixture gas condition were discussed for solution of windage energy loss. In short, with the aid of new technologies the cost of FES can be lowered and the FES will play a significant role in securing global energy sustainability. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Plastics Engineering, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on July 1, 2009. The length of the article is 3538 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: ANTEC[R]@NPE 2009 wrapup: largest plastics event showcases sustainability, energy savings.(NORTH AMERICA)
Author: Richard Stewart
Publication: Plastics Engineering (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2009
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 65Issue: 7Page: 10(8)

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The limited sustainability of our current energy supply systems necessitates a transition to a more sustainable system. Taking a systemic, socio-cultural approach, this book provides new insights into the nature of this challenge and explores possible strategies to accelerate and guide such transitions.