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A new wind energy conversion system / by Smetana, Frederick O.,1928-(CARDINAL)161254; North Carolina State University.Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.(CARDINAL)161073;

Subjects: Wind power.;

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Wind power basics / by Chiras, Daniel D.(CARDINAL)178182; Sagrillo, Mick.(CARDINAL)535870; Woofenden, Ian.(CARDINAL)497124;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and index.

Subjects: Wind power.; Wind energy conversion systems.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4

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Wind power / by Allen, Kathy.(CARDINAL)477115;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Your Missions: What you know -- April 14: the park -- April 20: wind history -- April 28: windmills -- May 3: the turbine -- May 10: wind power -- May 15: different turbines -- May 23: wind and wildlife Impact -- Mission accomplished!Ages 7-8.Grades K-3.840LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Wind energy conversion systems; Wind power;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Wind energy / by Felix, Rebecca,1984-author.(CARDINAL)344510; Craig, Diane,consultant.(CARDINAL)352525;

All about wind energy -- Think about it -- Glossary.Kids will explore an exciting energy resource with Wind Energy. This book covers one of Earth's energy resources, including where it comes from, how we develop and use it, and how it helps power the world.440LSandCastle Level: Fluent.Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Readers (Publications); Clean energy; Electric power production; Energy development; Energy harvesting; Power resources; Readers (Elementary); Renewable energy sources; Wind energy conversion systems; Wind power;

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Wind power for dummies / by Woofenden, Ian.(CARDINAL)497124;

A wind primer : stuff you need to know. Introducing the world of home wind electricity ; Is wind energy for you? ; Deconstructing wind-energy systems ; Electricity basics : a shocking amount of info ; Blowing through vital wind-energy principles -- Assessing your situation. The home energy assessment : gauging your energy appetite ; Increasing your home's energy efficiency ; Determining your site's wind-energy potential ; Defining your relationship to the grid ; Calculating the value of your investment ; If not wind, then what? Other options for green energy -- Assembling your system. Gathering a team of experts-- or going it alone ; Weighing wind generator options ; Talking about towers ; Checking out the rest of the system components ; Tying everything together : system sizing and design -- Installing and operating your system. Safety first! ; Installation time ; Living with wind energy -- the part of tens. Ten essential steps toward a successful wind-electric system ; Ten wind-energy mistakes ; Ten tales of wind-energy users and "abusers" -- Appendixes. A, Glossary ; B, Conversions, abbreviations, and acronyms.

Subjects: Dwellings; Electric power production.; Wind power; Wind turbines.;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5

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Principles of energy / by Renneboog, Richard,editor.(CARDINAL)891845; Grey House Publishing, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)381300; Salem Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)521037;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Aerobic cellular respiration -- Air conditioning -- Alternative energy -- Ampere, Andre-Marie -- Animal power -- Atomic Energy Commission -- Batteries -- Biodiesel -- Biomass energy -- Boilers -- Breeder reactors -- Building envelope -- Capacity (electricity) -- Cellulosic ethanol -- Chernobyl -- China Syndrome (nuclear meltdown) -- Clausius, Rudolf -- Climate and weather -- Climate neutrality -- Coal and energy production -- Cogeneration and electricity generation -- Cold fusion -- Communication to garner support for energy development -- Computers and energy use -- Corn ethanol -- Dams -- Daylighting -- Demand-Side Management (DSM) -- Diesel, Rudolf -- Einstein, Albert -- Electric grids -- Electric potential -- Electricity energy transmission, secondary -- Embodied energy -- Energy and power -- Energy conservation -- Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 -- Energy intensity -- Energy payback -- Energy policy -- Energy poverty -- Energy storage techniques -- Enthalpy -- Entropy -- Exergy -- External combustion engine -- Faraday, Michael -- Flex-Fuel Vehicles (FFV) -- Flywheels -- Fossil fuels -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Frequency -- Fuel cells and energy efficiency -- Fundamentals of energy -- Gas energy transmission -- Gasoline and other petroleum fuels -- Geothermal and hydrothermal energy -- Geothermal energy -- Gibbs, Josiah Willard -- Green buildings -- Green energy certification -- Greenhouse gases and human industry -- Heat transfer -- Helmholtz, Hermann von -- Hertz, Heinrich -- High-intensity Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and energy conservation -- Hybrid vehicles and energy security -- Industrial Revolution and machine power -- Internal combustion engine -- Isotopes, radioactive -- Isotopes, stable -- Joule, James -- Kinetic energy -- Liquid fluid energy transmission -- Mechanical energy transmission -- Natural energy flows -- Natural gas -- Nuclear power plants -- Ocean current energy -- Ocean thermal energy conversion -- Ocean wave energy -- Oil and petroleum -- Oil shale and tar sands -- Otto, Nikolaus -- Photovoltaics (PVs) -- Potential energy -- Propane -- Rankine, William -- Renewable energy -- Renewable energy resources -- Rotational power -- Sadi Carnot -- Solar concentrator -- Solar energy -- Solar thermal systems -- Steam and steam turbines -- Steam engines -- Stirling, Robert -- Sugar beet ethanol -- Sugarcane ethanol -- Sun Day -- Tesla, Nikola -- Thermochemistry -- Thermodynamics and energy -- Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford) -- Thomson, Joseph John -- Thomson, William (Lord Kelvin) -- Tidal power generation -- Units of measurement -- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) -- Volta, Alessandro -- Waste heat recovery -- Watt, James -- Watt -- Wave properties -- Wavelength -- Westinghouse, George -- Wheat ethanol -- Willis Carrier and air conditioning -- Wind energy -- Work and energy -- Work-energy theorem.Energy, the capacity of an object to do work, is one of the most fundamental principles, affecting nearly every aspect of life on this planet. This volume in the Principles of Science series provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to energy, covering basic concepts, possibilities, ethical issues, and potential consequences of energy.

Subjects: Reference works.; Force and energy.; Power (Mechanics); Power resources.;

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Renewable energy made easy : free energy from solar, wind, hydropower, and other alternative energy sources / by Craddock, David,1982-(CARDINAL)492027;

MARCIVE 3/2/12Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.Reduce, reuse and renew -- The almost-perfect day -- Problems with fossil fuels -- Renewable energy pros and cons -- The focus of renewable energy made easy -- The potential of solar power -- A history of solar energy -- Windows (not the operating system) -- Solar collectors -- Types of solar energy -- Passive solar -- Interseasonal storage -- Daylighting -- Low temperature alternatives -- Photovoltaic -- Powering Mr. Fusion: biomass as an energy source -- A history of biomass -- The conversion process and its pros and cons -- Methods for improving fuel efficiency -- Crops -- Oily seeds and biodiesel -- Biogas -- Costs -- Ethanol -- The biomass-powered engine that could -- Environmental issues -- Getting wet and wild with hydropower -- A history of hydropower -- Head -- Turbines -- How does a hydropower system work? -- Hydropower applications -- The Francis turbine -- Effects on ecosystems -- Environmental issues -- Wind power -- A history of wind power and windmills -- Wind turbines -- Appropriate wind speeds -- Estimating the power a turbine could produce -- Costs of wind power -- Siting ideal locations for wind turbines -- Offshore wind -- Strengths and weaknesses of wind power -- The potential of wave power -- A history of waves -- How wave energy works -- Types of waves -- Sea states -- Under the sea (state) -- Capturing a wave -- Integrating wave energy into our everyday lives -- The extreme economics of wave energy -- Limiting environmental impact -- Harvesting geothermal energy -- Prospective geothermal energy locations -- Geothermal plants -- Uses for geothermal energy -- Problems with geothermal energy -- High points of geothermal energy -- Case studies.

Subjects: Renewable energy sources.; Renewable energy sources; Energy policy.;

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Energy in nature and society : general energetics of complex systems / by Smil, Vaclav.(CARDINAL)323599;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-459) and indexes.1. The universal link: energetics, energy, and power. Evolution of energetics: from Aristotle to Einstein ; Approaches to understanding: concepts, variables, units -- 2. Planetary energetics: hydrosphere, lithosphere. Sun: the star and its radiation ; Energy balance of the Earth: radiation fluxes ; Hydrosphere and atmosphere: thermal and mass fluxes ; Water and air in motion: kinetic fluxes ; Geoenergetics: heat, plate tectonics, volcanoes, earthquakes -- 3. Photosynthesis: bioenergetics of primary production. Photosynthetic pathways ; Global primary productivity ; Productivities of ecosystems and plants ; Phytomass stores ; Autotrophic scaling -- 4. Heterotrophic conversions: consumer bioenergetics. Metabolic capabilities ; Ectotherms and endotherms ; Locomotion ; Biomasses and productivities ; Heterotrophs in ecosystems -- 5. Human energetics: people as a simple heterotophs. Energy sources and basal metabolism ; Requirements and uncertainties ; Thermoregulation ; Limits of human performance ; Gathering, hunting and fishing -- Traditional food production: humans as a solar farmers. Extensive practices ; Permanent cropping ; Muscles, implements, machines ; Cropping intensification ; Traditional agricultures -- 7. Preindustrial complexification: prime movers and fuels in traditional societies. Animate power: human and animal muscles ; Water and wind: wheels and mills ; Phytomass fuels and metallurgy: wood, charcoal, crop residues ; Construction: methods and structures ; Transportation: roads and ships.8. Fossil fuels: heat, light and prime movers. Coals: the earliest modern fuels ; Hydrocarbons: crude oils and natural gases ; From extraction to combustion: modern fossil-fuel industries ; Mechanical prime movers: engines and turbines ; Fossil-fueled electricity: generation and transmission -- 9. Fossil-fueled civilization: patterns and trends. Fuels ad fossil-fueled electricity : energy production and trade ; Nonfossil contributions: biomass and primary electricity ; Global consumption patterns: growth and inequality ; Qualitative changes: transitions and efficiencies ; Energy conservation: gains and rebounds -- 10. Energy costs: valuations and changes. Energy cost of energy: net gains ; Basic materials: from concrete to fertilizers ; Structures and products: from buildings to computers ; Crops and animal foods: subsidized diets ; Modern food system: gains, costs, efficiencies -- 11. Environmental consequences: metabolism of fossil-fueled civilization. Power densities: energy and land ; Energy conversions and heat rejection ; Energy and water ; Energy and the atmosphere ; Interference in grand biospheric cycles -- 12. Energetic correlates: complexities of high-energy civilization. Energy and the economy ; Energy and value ; Energy and the quality of life ; Energy and war ; Energy and the future -- 13. Grand patterns: energetic and other essentials. Energy in the biosphere ; Energy and the civilization ; The challenges ahead.

Subjects: Bioenergetics.; Energy budget (Geophysics);

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Do-it-yourself projects to get you off the grid : rain barrels, chicken coops, solar panels, and more / by Weinstein, Noah(Editor),editor.(CARDINAL)788451; Instructables (Firm),author.(CARDINAL)561157;

Introduction -- Editor's note -- Backyard chicken coop -- Clipping chicken wings -- Small chicken tractor for the city dweller -- Chicken barrow -- Collect rain water with a wine barrel -- Roughneck rain barrel -- Green solar-powered water barrel -- Rainwater collection and distribution system -- DIY 1000 watt wind turbine -- How I built an electricity-producing wind turbine -- Chispito wind generator -- How to build a thermoelectric lamp -- Build a 60 watt solar panel -- Solar power system -- How to make PV solar panels -- Solar lawn mower! -- Solar powered fountain/herb garden -- Solar PV tracker -- Greenhouse from old windows -- An algae bioreactor from recycled water bottles -- Conversion tables.Instructables is back with this inspiring book focused on a series of projects designed to get you thinking creatively about going green. Twenty Instructables illustrate just how simple it can be to make your own backyard chicken coop, or turn a wine barrel into a rainwater collector. Here, you will learn to: -Clip a chicken's wings -Power your lawn mower with solar power -Create a chicken tractor for the city -Water your garden with solar power -Build a thermoelectric lamp -Create an algae bioreactor from water bottles -And much more! With dozens of full-color photographs per project accompanying easy-to-follow instructions, this Instructables collection utilizes the best that the online community has to offer, turning a far-reaching group of people into a mammoth database churning out ideas to make life better, easier, and, in this case, greener.

Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Handbooks and manuals.; Self-reliant living.; Sustainable living.; Renewable energy sources.; Solar energy.; Urban homesteading.; Urban agriculture.; Do-it-yourself work.;

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