Tag Archives: Efficiency
Energy and the New Reality 1: Energy Efficiency and the Demand for Energy Services
Product DescriptionReducing and managing humanity’s demand for energy is a fundamental part of the effort to mitigate climate change. In this, the most comprehensive textbook ever written on the subject, L. Danny Harvey lays out the theory and practice of how things must change if we are to meet our energy needs sustainably. The book [...]
Energy Efficiency Policies and Measures in Europe: The Impact for Major End Uses
Product DescriptionThis CD-ROM contains details of the methodology used to analyse energy efficiency issues, as part of the E-GRIDS project, including a number of results-based scenarios and using three quantitative tools of demand analysis, manufacturing impact and energy system stimulation. This project has been implemented under the EU Research and Technological Development Framework Programme, within [...]
Energy and the New Reality 1: Energy Efficiency and the Demand for Energy Services
Product DescriptionReducing and managing humanity’s demand for energy is a fundamental part of the effort to mitigate climate change. In this, the most comprehensive textbook ever written on the subject, L. Danny Harvey lays out the theory and practice of how things must change if we are to meet our energy needs sustainably. The book [...]
Energy Efficiency in Old Houses
Product DescriptionMost people in the UK live in an old house built before the age of modern building regulations and energy-efficiency standards, and one in four UK residents lives in a house that is at least a century old. However, it is possible to upgrade existing housing stock and to live in these old houses in an energy-efficient and [...]
Do-It-Yourself Home Energy Audits: 140 Simple Solutions to Lower Energy Costs, Increase Your Home’s Efficiency, and Save the Environmen
Product DescriptionReduce your utility bill and your carbon footprint This hands-on guide shows you how to access your home’s energy efficiency, and offers 140 energy- and money-saving solutions you can use right away. Inside, you’ll find simple, no- and low-cost measures to identify problems and increase your home’s livability and efficiency–as well as your expendable [...]
Do-It-Yourself Home Energy Audits: 140 Simple Solutions to Lower Energy Costs, Increase Your Home’s Efficiency, and Save the Environmen
Product DescriptionReduce your utility bill and your carbon footprint This hands-on guide shows you how to access your home’s energy efficiency, and offers 140 energy- and money-saving solutions you can use right away. Inside, you’ll find simple, no- and low-cost measures to identify problems and increase your home’s livability and efficiency–as well as your expendable [...]
Building with Structural Insulated Panels : Strength and Energy Efficiency Through Structural Panel Construction
Building with Structural Insulated Panels : Strength and Energy Efficiency Through Structural Panel Construction
Microclimatic Landscape Design: Creating Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency
Product DescriptionThis book describes design techniques that can be used to create microclimates—designing sites to modify the prevailing temperature and air flow—that increase comfort or reduce energy consumption. This book explores tricks and techniques of site design to improve the comfort of outdoor spaces and reduce the heating or cooling loads on indoor spaces…. More [...]
Energy Efficiency Manual: for everyone who uses energy, pays for utilities, designs and builds, is interested in energy conservation and the environment
Product DescriptionThis is the primary reference, how-to guide, and sourcebook for energy conservation. It lets you improve efficiency and save money in all types of buildings and plants, ranging from individual houses to commercial buildings to large institutions and industrial plants. It is organized around 400 logically grouped energy conservation actions, presented in language that [...]
Handbook of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Product DescriptionBrought to you by the creator of numerous bestselling handbooks, the Handbook of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy provides a thorough grounding in the analytic techniques and technological developments that underpin renewable energy use and environmental protection. The handbook emphasizes the engineering aspects of energy conservation and renewable energy. Taking a world view, the [...]
Handbook of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Product DescriptionBrought to you by the creator of numerous bestselling handbooks, the Handbook of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy provides a thorough grounding in the analytic techniques and technological developments that underpin renewable energy use and environmental protection. The handbook emphasizes the engineering aspects of energy conservation and renewable energy. Taking a world view, the [...]