Active Solar Collectors and Their Applications
Provides a survey of solar geometry and meteorologial data, the optics of various kinds of solar collectors, the mechanics of heat transfer, and private elements of system deign, optimization, and economic analysis. Also discussed are testing, methods and materials, and tracking and nontracking collectors.
Easy Guide To Solar Electric Part I: 3ED
This book is a simple and entertaining introduction to Solar Electric, a must for everyone who is interested in the Photovoltaic Process or who has plans to live in a solar home. It is also a statement for clean energy and for an environmentally healthy lifestyle. The reader will be introduced – through humor and analogies – to: The basic Electrical Terms, The Components of a Solar System, and to Live with Solar Energy. Practical tips, including names, will give the reader some idea about reliable products and manufacturers. Complete with index and charts, this third edition is expanded and updated to address the many changes in solar energy in the past few years, including the increase in Grid Tied Systems and incentive programs.
The Solar Chimney
Describes a viable alternative power source. Manzanares, Spain’s solar chimney has proven to be effective.
Jorg Schlaig, professor at the University of Stuttgart and one of the initial developers of the solar chimney concept, is the author of this concise introduction to solar chimney technology. The work, originally produced in German, is an attractive and well presented argument for an energy source that is non-poluting and inexhaustable, and may solve many of our current energy problems. The ideas and concepts are explained in such a way that both lay person and expert may benefit of the many years of practical and theoretical work on which the book is based.Copiously provided with statistical and financial data, the book is a must-read for energy professionals, decisionmakers and politicians everywhere.
