Anirudh Singh

Talking Renewables (eBook, ePUB)

A renewable energy primer for everyone

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Renewable energy (RE) is a subject of great interest today. It is one of the two main means for implementing climate change mitigation programmes, and presently the only perceived means for replacing the declining global fossil-fuel reserves. It also helps fight poverty and assists in the global quest for gender equity by taking clean energy where it is needed most for development.

It is perhaps not surprising therefore, that there is so much coverage of RE by media and tech writers, economists and bloggers, many of who only have a partial understanding of the technology itself. The result is mostly promotional rhetoric that says little about the true value of the technology and leads to a confused picture for the serious individual or decision-maker who wants to know what the technology is really capable of doing.

Talking Renewables provides a clear and factual picture of the status of RE and its capabilities today. It is largely a non-technical book in nature but does however cover enough of the science and technology to enable readers to go further with their own investigations should they wish to. It looks at all areas of RE, starting with biomass energy and hydropower, and proceeding to wind, solar and geothermal energy before ending with an overview of ocean energy. The last two chapters consider how the technologies are being implemented today and their roles in climate change mitigation and poverty alleviation, and looks at the future of renewable energy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781681749006
• Artikelnr.: 52382086

Autorenporträt

Anirudh Singh, PhD, is a researcher/writer/consultant in Renewable Energy and Climate Change currently based at the University of Fiji where he is developing a Master's programme in Renewable Energy Management.

Anirudh spent the major portion of his teaching/research career at the University of the South Pacific (USP) where he taught postgraduate and undergraduate courses in Physics and Renewable Energy and managed two major capacity-building projects (Project DIREKT and Project L3EAP) in Renewable Energy within international EU-funded collaborations. Since 2009 he has managed two international conferences and fourteen Renewable Energy capacity-building workshops, and has been Associate/Guest editor for the Energy Policy journal and the Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation published by Springer. He has also contributed to, and featured in, an online MOOC called Sustainable Energy for Small Island Developing States created at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany.

Anirudh spent five years managing a university campus, has 20 years university teaching/administration experience, has published 10 book chapters, and more than 50 papers in international journals. He has made more than 50 presentations in 11 countries over the last 20 years.

Before his career in Renewable Energy, Anirudh carried out muon implantation research at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Leicester University in the UK from where he obtained his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics.