196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy. Professor Smith describes how buildings can be made to... Read more
Chapter 1 Climate change and sustainable energy: The 2005 Prince Philip Lecture at the Royal Society of Arts by Sir John Houghton CBE FRS; Chapter 2 Solar thermal power; Chapter 3 Low energy techniques for cooling; Chapter 4 Geothermal energy; Chapter 5 Wind power; Chapter 6 Photovoltaic cells; Chapter 7 Fuel cells; Chapter 8 Bioenergy; Chapter 9 Microgeneration and combined heat and power; Chapter 10 Small-scale hydro; Chapter 11 Wave and tide; Chapter 12 Prospects for the energy infrastructure; Chapter 13 Materials; Chapter 14 The photonic revolution; Chapter 15 Building integrated renewable energy: case studies; Chapter 16 Sustainability on a knife edge;
Biography
Peter F. Smith
Of the first edition:
'An absorbing study of the technology available for low energy buildings.'
Permaculture Magazine
'...the book is well written and illustrated. There are copious graphs, diagrams and photographs. The author backs up his arguments with statistics.'
Northeast Sun
'This book is a useful guide to a comprehensive range of established and developing technologies.'
EcoTech, Sustainable Architecture Today
