1st Edition

Desert Energy A Guide to the Technology, Impacts and Opportunities

By Alasdair Cameron Copyright 2013
192 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the key technologies being deployed in an effort to tap the potential presented by world's deserts for siting large-scale solar power applications, and surveys the feasibility of such projects given the remoteness and the hostility of these environments. Focusing on large scale photovoltaics and concentrating solar thermal power, it explains how the systems work, projects that... Read more

Part 1  1. Introduction  2. Technology  3. Energy from the Desert  4. Economic and Policy Aspects of Solar Power, and the Status of Regional Markets  Part 2  5. Existing and Planned Projects  6. Long-term Visions  7. Environmental, Health and Resource Issues Facing Solar Technology  8. Conclusion

Biography

Alasdair Cameron is a UK-based writer and campaigner on environmental issues. He has written extensively on renewable energy and was formerly Assistant Editor of Renewable Energy World magazine. He currently lives in London.

"The author has worked hard to present a valuable collection of facts and figures on different aspects of this energy including different systems’ efficiencies, water consumption, costs, benefits etc, which cannot be easily acquired" Iman Niknia in the International Journal of Environmental Studies