As a reaction to these historical perspectives, the building industry has witnessed a certain rise in design responses to regional climatic conditions, as part of a powerful efficiency and energy conservation push since the 1970s. More recently, the zero green house gas emsission and office building has become a design concept as part of strategies to introduce urban renewable energy as an increasing contributor to managing urban energy supplies. (more…)
Hydrogen has many applications when it comes to fuel. It can be used both in internal combustion engines and hydrogen fuel cells. ...
The age of industrialization came into full force through the modern exploration and use of fossil fuels. As one of its most striki ...
The commercialization prospects for fuel cell vehicles depend not only on their performance and cost, but also on how well th ...
All of today’s hydrogen conversion products, demonstration models, and prototypes possess some deficiencies; they cannot yet pr ...
The Solar City approach originally emerged from a new generation of International Energy Agency (IEA) energy research and developme ...
The relationship of gross national product per capita to energy consumption per capita for most countries of the world correlates very well with the status of economic and technological development. The World Bank defines developing countries as low-and middle-income countries for which the annual gross national product is $5999 or less per capita (World Bank, 1989; U.S. Congress, 1991). (more…)
The gradual change in the energy consumption pattern of the United States from 1860 to 1990. In the mid-1800s, biomass, princi ...
Global energy consumption in the last half century has increased very rapidly and is expected to continue to grow over the next ...
The development of the ‘‘new’’ wind and solar technologies is of great importance for the future contribution of RESs to energy sup ...
Although technology change (usually involving an improvement in energy efficiency) is not inherently a geographic process, it does ...
World energy use has increased steadily over the past several decades. Much of the growth in world energy consumption has been ...
The increased use of fossil energy since the industrial revolution, and especially since 1950, has been the major cause of increased emissions of air pollutants and, correspondingly, many environmental problems. Emissions due to the use of energy are major sources of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon dioxide, and soot and constitute a large contribution of methane, non-methane volatile organic compounds, and heavy metals. (more…)
Almost all fossil fuels use is by burning them to create energy. Burning process then produces waste products due to impurities in ...
Acid deposition and the associated particulate nitrates and sulfates are implicated in the deterioration of certain sensitive e ...
Since the early 1960s, climate change and air quality have become major and often controversial issues in many countries and am ...
Smoke from biomass and coal combustion contains a large number of pollutants with known health hazards, including particulate matte ...
