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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
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7
Renewable Electricity
Walter Short
7.1 Introduction and Scope
Today, combustion of fossil fuels is the world’s primary source of energy,
and it is also the primary source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the
atmosphere. While the world economies clearly need energy to sustain them,
there are alternative energy sources available that do not emit signicant
GHGs. The two primary sources are nuclear energy and renewable energy.
Renewable energy includes many different forms of energy, such as solar,
wind, geothermal, biomass, and ocean. These renewable energies are used
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