Godfrey Boyle
Auteur de Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future, Second Edition
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Godfrey Boyle is Director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at the UK Open University, where has chaired several renewable and sustainable energy course teams. He has published widely on these subjects, including the textbooks Energy Systems and Sustainability (2003) and Renewable Energy: afficher plus Power for a Sustainable Future (2004). He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (formerly the Institution of Electrical Engineers) and a Trustee of the National Energy Foundation. afficher moins
Œuvres de Godfrey Boyle
Energy Systems and Sustainability: Power for a Sustainable Future (2012) — Directeur de publication — 9 exemplaires
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- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 139
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- 3.3
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The book is a good solid primer detailing how current power generation systems work, their history of development and some brief pointers to future work. As the edition I read came out in 2003 some of the future predictions are rapidly coming to reality (things like the spread and popularization of electric vehicles, and the more widespread deployment of solar and wind generation), but the basic information isn't going to change so its likely to be a useful book for people interested in sustainability of energy supplies for some years to come.
The book has very clear text and some well thought out diagrams and photographs to aid understanding. There are some very basic equations introduced but nothing that should phase many people.… (plus d'informations)