Featured Books & eBooks - Energy Efficiency
Navigating the Maze of Energy Efficiency Projects by ISBN: 9780998497617Publication Date: 2017Navigating the Maze is a guide to energy efficiency for time- and resource-constrained professionals and consumers. The marketplace is glutted with energy saving products and proposals (some worthy, some not), resulting in confusion and skepticism across the board. This book clearly lays out the six essential energy efficiency criteria for business professionals and homeowners to make informed evaluations of any project. Author Jeff Julia addresses common oversights and pitfalls while supplying vital tools and resources to the reader.
Energy Efficiency: Building a Clean, Secure Economy by ISBN: 9780817919542Publication Date: 2016Particularly since the oil embargo of 1973, individuals, corporations, and other organizations have consistently found more economical ways to reduce energy use. In this book, Jim Sweeney examines the energy policies and practices of the past forty years and their impact on three crucial systems: the economy, the environment, and national security. He shows how energy-efficiency contributions to the country's overall energy situation have been more powerful than all the increases in the domestic production of oil, gas, coal, geothermal energy, nuclear power, solar power, wind power, and biofuels.
Energy Revolution: The Physics and the Promise of Efficient Technology by Call Number: TJ163.2 .P735ISBN: 9780674725027Publication Date: 2015Energy can be neither created nor destroyed—but it can be wasted. The United States wastes two-thirds of its energy, including 80% of the energy used in transportation. Mara Prentiss analyzes political and technical information from government reports and press releases in order to advance a bold claim: wind and solar power could generate 100% of the average total energy demand for the U.S.—but we need to get better at energy optimization and waste reduction to aid that transition. Enhanced by full-color visualizations of key concepts and data, Energy Revolution answers one of the century's most crucial questions: How can we get smarter about producing and distributing, using and conserving, energy?
Energy Efficiency: Towards the End of Demand Growth by ISBN: 9780123978790Publication Date: 2013Energy Efficiency: Towards the End of Demand Growth points the way toward new energy efficiency technologies and outlines key policy frameworks affecting the profitability of efficiency projects. Recognized thought leaders in energy systems contribute careful examinations of evolving technologies, practical case studies, and best practices for project planners, implementers and financiers. This volume challenges the "more is better" paradigm in energy production, examining efficiency technologies and measurement across the supply chain.
Quicklist
Goldemberg, José. Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know. (2012) - eBook
Howard, Brian Clark. Green Lighting: How Energy-Efficient Lighting Can Save You Energy and Money and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint. (2011) - eBook
Zang, Ling (Ed.). Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Through Nanotechnology. (2011) - eBook
Harvey, Leslie. Energy & the New Reality 1: Energy Efficiency and the Demand for Energy Services. (2010) - eBook
Taylor, Robert & Chandrasekar Govindrarajalu. Financing Energy Efficiency. (2008) - eBook
Kreith, Frank & D. Yogi Goswami. Handbook of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy. (2007) - eBook
Waide, Paul & Satoshi Tanishima. Light's Labour's Lost: Policies for Energy-Efficient Lighting. (2006) - eBook
Owen, Gil. Public Purpose or Private Benefit?: The Politics of Energy Conservation. (1999) - HD9502 .O93
Casten, Thomas. Turning Off the Heat: Why America Must Double Energy Efficiency to Save Money & Reduce Global Warming. (1998) - TJ163.4.U6 C38
References
International Code Council. International Energy Conservation Code. (2006) - Ref K3538 .I5245
Wulfinghoff, Donald. Energy Efficiency Manual - For Everyone Who Uses Energy, Pays for Utilities, Controls Energy Usage, Designs & Builds, Is Interested in Energy & Environmental Preservation. (1999) - Ref TJ163.3 .W85
Energy Accounts: Architectural Representations of Energy, Climate and the Future by Call Number: NA2542.3 .E456ISBN: 9781138914063Publication Date: 2016How does one tell the story of energy production, use, or conservation in a manner sufficiently convincing to influence policy, behavior, and design? Energy Accounts explores potential answers to this question through compelling images, data visualizations, narratives, and other examples of accounting for energy. Organized into a collection containing both examples of best practices and critiques, this impressive array of projects and contributors combines text and graphic material to explore different representations of energy data.
Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources & Uses by Call Number: TJ163.245 .S65ISBN: 9780262029148Publication Date: 2015Any understanding of complex energy systems must rely on quantitative measures of many fundamental variables. Power density—the rate of energy flux per unit of area—is an important but largely overlooked measure. Vaclav Smil provides the first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of the power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, thermal electricity generation, and all common energy uses. Smil shows that careful quantification, critical appraisals, and revealing comparisons of power densities make possible a deeper understanding of the ways we harness, convert, and use energies.
