Distributed Renewable Energies for Off-Grid Communities
by Nasir El Bassam, Preben Maegaard, Marcia Schlichting
Preface
The time of cheap oil and gas is over. Mankind can survive without globalization, financial crises and flights to the moon or Mars but not without adequate and affordable energy availability.
Energy is directly related to the most critical economic and social issues that affect sustainable development such as water supply sanitation, mobility, food production, environmental quality, education, job creation, security and peace in regional and global contexts. Indeed the magnitude of change needed is immense, fundamental and directly related to the energy produced and consumed nationally and internationally. In addition, it is estimated that almost two billion people worldwide lack access to modern energy resources.
Current approaches to ...
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