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Renewable Energy Resources, John Twidell
and Tony Weir, 2nd Edition




Author Information

Tony Weir is a policy adviser to the Australian government, specializing in the interface between technology and policy, covering subjects such as energy supply and demand, climate change and innovation in business. He was formerly Senior Energy Officer at the South Pacific Forum Secretariat in Fiji, and has lectured and researched in physics and policy studies at universities of the UK, Australia and the Pacific.

John Twidell has considerable experience in renewable energy as an academic professor, a board member of wind and solar professional associations, a journal editor and contractor with the European Commission. As well as holding posts in the UK, he has worked in Sudan and Fiji.


Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Principles of renewable energy

Chapter 2: Essentials of fluid dynamics

Chapter 3: Heat transfer

Chapter 4: Solar radiation

Chapter 5: Solar water heating

Chapter 6: Buildings and other solar thermal

Chapter 7: Photovoltaic generation

Chapter 8: Hydro-power

Chapter 9: Power from the wind

Chapter 10: The photosynthetic process

Chapter 11: Biomass and biofuels

Chapter 12: Wave power

Chapter 13: Tidal power

Chapter 14: Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC)

Chapter 15: Geothermal energy

Chapter 16: Energy systems, storage and transmission

Chapter 17: Institutional and economic factors

Appendix A: Units and conversions

Appendix B: Data

Appendix C: Some heat transfer formulas

Solution guide to problems at the end of chapters

Index



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