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Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Frank Kreith, Susan Krumdieck
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
790 pages
30h 5m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Economics of Energy Generation
and Conservation Systems*
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a nite world is either a
madman or an economist.
—Kenneth Boulding (ca. 1980)
This chapter presents useful analysis tools that engineers should be familiar with. These
include a basic process for economic assessment, energy ow analysis, and resource account-
ing methods for complex energy systems. The objective of economic assessment is to provide
useful nancial insight and enable a comparison between various energy options. No famil-
iarity with microeconomics is presumed, and given the uncertainty in predicting a future
economic ...
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ISBN: 9781466556966