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Biofuels is a collective term for liquid fuels derived from renewable sources, including ethanol, biodiesel, and other renewable liquid fuels. This...

Urbanisation has re-shaped China''''s economy, society, and energy system. Between 1990 and 2007 China added 290 million new urban residents, bring...

Previous research on the effects of wind energy facilities on surrounding home values has been limited by small samples of relevant home-sale data ...

This book provides an overview of various energy strategies that are available to Guam in the pursuit of diversifying fuel sources and reducing fos...

The United States has seen a resurgence in petroleum production, mainly driven by technology improvements (hydraulic fracturing and directional dri...

Policy-makers are sometimes faced with the challenge of making decisions based on the choice of biomass feedstocks to promote. As such, the book pr...

As many of the authors in this book note, the energy available in the hydrogen currently produced around the world is relatively small when compare...

Book & CD-ROM. The U.S. industrial sector accounts for the largest share of energy consumption in the country, and energy efficiency improveme...

Increasing concerns about energy systems and their environmental implications, as well as the costs, supply and security of energy resources, are f...

Today''''s oil and gas are at record prices, whilst global energy demand is increasing from population and economic development pressures. New and ...

The energy safety (independence) is one of the most important priorities of the State activity. Its achieving by means of diplomacy lowers risks of...

Since the spring of 2009, billions of federal dollars have been allocated to state and local governments as grants for energy efficiency and renewa...

With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the ...

The paradigm of manufacturing is undergoing a major evolution throughout the world. The use of computers, the Internet and new challenges related t...

This proven, uniquely practical text provides your students with a thorough guide to reading, understanding, and working with construction drawings...

This volume in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second edition, provides a comprehensive overview of complementary strate...

Different types of swirl coal burners are presented, along with developments in radial-biased combustion and centrally-fuel-rich swirl coal combust...

Syngas generation by oxidative or steam reforming of hydrocarbons and oxygenates now attracts a lot of attention of researchers in the fields of he...

Biodiesel is a domestically produced, renewable fuel that can be manufactured from new and used vegetable oils, animal fats, and recycled restauran...

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy research studies from authors around the globe, including recent research in energy, environmen...