About the Book: Textbook of Renewable Energy
Renewable energies are sources of clean, inexhaustible and increasingly
competitive energy. They differ from fossil fuels principally in their
diversity, abundance and potential for use anywhere on the planet, but above all
in that they produce neither greenhouse gases which cause climate change nor
polluting emissions. There are many forms of renewable energy. Most of these
renewable energies depend in one way or another on sunlight. Wind and
hydroelectric power are the direct result of differential heating of the Earths
surface which leads to air moving about (wind) and precipitation forming as the
air is lifted. Solar energy is