Models of Thermochemical Heat Storage

Christoph Lehmann, Olaf Kolditz, Thomas Nagel

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Computational Modeling of Energy Systems
• Focuses on the thermochemical gas-solid reactions for the design of heat storage systems Provides detailed models of the reactions that account for he... Lees meer

European Guide to Power System Testing

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy
• This book is an open access book. This book provides an overview of the ERIGrid validation methodology for validating CPES, a holistic power system te... Lees meer

Maximum Power and Its Philosophical Roots

Timothy McWhirter

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Energy Analysis
• This Briefs volume focuses on the maximum power principle, which was created by the mathematician and physical chemist Alfred Lotka, and further devel... Lees meer

The First Half of the Age of Oil

Charles A S Hall, Carlos A Ramírez-Pascualli

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy
• According to the conventional wisdom, we live in a post-industrial information age. This book, however, paints a different picture: We live in the age... Lees meer

Geoenergy Modeling I

Norbert Böttcher, Norihiro Watanabe, Uwe-Jens Görke, Olaf Kolditz

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Computational Modeling of Energy Systems
• This introduction to geothermal modeling deals with flow and heat transport processes in porous and fractured media related to geothermal energy appli... Lees meer

Energy Storage

Manuel Bailera, Pilar Lisbona, Begoña Peña, Luis M Romeo

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy
• This book presents a detailed analysis of Power-to-Gas, a promising energy storage technology. It discusses the main mechanisms involved, and presents... Lees meer

Jevons' Paradoxes

Kent Klitgaard

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Energy Analysis
• I​n 1865, economist William Stanley Jevons published The Coal Question , describing the crucial role that coal played in British economic development.... Lees meer

Geoenergy Modeling III

Norihiro Watanabe, Guido Blöcher, Mauro Cacace, Sebastian Held, Thomas Kohl

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Computational Modeling of Energy Systems
• This book focuses on numerical modeling of deep hydrothermal and petrothermal systems in fractured georeservoirs for utilization in Geothermal Energy ... Lees meer

Energy in Australia

Graham Palmer

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Energy Analysis
• With rapidly declining costs and seemingly unlimited sunshine, the choice of solar in Australia seems obvious. Yet despite its many advantages, homes ... Lees meer

When Trucks Stop Running

A J Friedemann

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Energy Analysis
• In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices... Lees meer

The Chinese Oil Industry

Lianyong Feng, Yan Hu, Charles A S Hall, Jianliang Wang

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy
• The Chinese Oil Industry: History and Future presents a wealth of tables and figures with new data on Chinese fossil fuel production and consumption, ... Lees meer

Social-Ecological-Technological Effects of Hurricane María on Puerto Rico

Ariel E Lugo

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Energy Analysis
• This book deals with the immediate effects of, and response to, Hurricane María on the social, ecological, and technological systems (SETS) of Puerto ... Lees meer

The Economics of Oil

S W Carmalt

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Energy Analysis
• This book examines the ways that oil economics will impact the rapidly changing global economy, and the oil industry itself, over the coming decades. ... Lees meer

Geoenergy Modeling II

Haibing Shao, Philipp Hein, Agnes Sachse, Olaf Kolditz

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Computational Modeling of Energy Systems
• This book is dedicated to the numerical modeling of shallow geothermal systems. The utilization of shallow geothermal energy involves the integration ... Lees meer

Failing States, Collapsing Systems

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Energy Analysis
• This work executes a unique transdisciplinary methodology building on the author's previous book, A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And Ho... Lees meer

High-Speed Photography in Fluid Mechanics

Junwei Shen, Shaowu Ma, Yuning Zhang, Jian Chang

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy
• This brief overviews the application and significance of high-speed photography in experimental fluid mechanics, specifically focusing on the detailed... Lees meer

Rethinking Economic Growth Theory from a Biophysical Perspective

Blair Fix

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Energy Analysis
• Neoclassical growth theory is the dominant perspective for explaining economic growth. At its core are four implicit assumptions: 1) economic output c... Lees meer

Computational Geotechnics

Thomas Nagel, Norbert Böttcher, Uwe-Jens Görke, Olaf Kolditz

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Computational Modeling of Energy Systems
• In this book, effective computational methods to facilitate those pivotal simulations using open-source software are introduced and discussed with a s... Lees meer

The Limits to Growth Revisited

Ugo Bardi

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy
• "The Limits to Growth" (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. Fir... Lees meer

Energy and the Financial System

Roger Boyd

• Paperback | Engels | SpringerBriefs in Energy | Energy Analysis
• The modern financial system was developed to support the rapid economic growth that took off about 200 years ago with the phenomenal amounts of cheap ... Lees meer