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Renewable Energy: A Very Short Introduction

Name: Renewable Energy: A Very Short Introduction
SKU: 9780198825401
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By (author) Nick Jelley,

€12.60

With growing concerns over climate change and air pollution, the need to switch from fossil fuels to clean and renewable sources of energy has become pressing. Here, Nick Jelley describes the main renewables, explains how wind and solar farms can provide the cheapest energy in many parts of the world, and calls for urgent action.

SKU: 9780198825401

1 in stock

ISBN: 9780198825401

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 176

Dimensions: 11.1 × 0.9 × 17.4 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 176 pages
Dimensions 11.1 × 0.9 × 17.4 cm | 136
Publication Date 27 February 2020
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country United Kingdom

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Nick Jelley

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Nick Jelley is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Physics and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. His research was in nuclear and particle physics and he published many papers in this field. He was a member of the Nobel Prize winning SNO experiment, for which he was the UK group leader, and the recipient of two Institute of Physics prizes. More recently, he has carried out research on solar energy for use in the developing world. He gave lectures to Oxford physics undergraduates on Energy Studies from 2003-2014, and in 2012 a Science and Society public lecture on Renewable Energy at the University of Liverpool. His books include Energy Science (OUP, 3rd edition, 2017) and A Dictionary of Energy Science (OUP, 2017).

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