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Sustainable Energy: Books

Resources relevant to the Renewable Energy Certificate and Masters Degree in Sustainable Energy offered by the School of Engineering.

Books of Interest

100% renewable: energy autonomy in action

Alternative energy systems in building design

Apollo's fire: igniting America's clean energy economy

Biodiesel: growing a new energy economy

Biofuels: securing the planet's future energy needs

Biofuels, solar and wind as renewable energy systems: benefits and risks

Energy and society: an introduction

Energy and the new reality 2 : carbon-free energy supply

Energy autonomy: the economic, social and technological case for renewable energy  

[The] Energy construct: achieving a clean, domestic, and economical energy future  

Energy in America: a tour of our fossil fuel culture and beyond

Energy in nature and society: general energetics of complex systems 

Energy resources and systems

Energy supplies, sustainability, and costs [ebook]

Energy transitions: history, requirements, prospects {ebook}

Environment, power, and society for the twenty-first century: the hierarchy of energy

Fueling our future: an introduction to sustainable energy

Fundamentals of renewable energy processes 

Handbook of energy efficiency and renewable energy [ebook]

Hydrogen energy: challenges and prospects

Kicking the carbon habit: global warming and the case for renewable and nuclear energy

Physics of societal issues: calculations on national security, environment, and energy

Renewable energy engineering and technology: principles and practice

Renewable energy: sustainable energy concepts for the future 

Renewable energy in power systems 

Renewable energy resources (2nd ed.)

Solar energy: renewable energy and the environment

Solar hydrogen generation: towards a renewable energy future

Solar revolution: the economic transformation of the global energy industry

Sustainable energy: opportunities and limitations

Wind energy: renewable energy and the environment

 

Biofuels

Selected Books for Biofuels

Biofuels

Biofuels: biotechnology, chemistry, and sustainable development

Biofuels: securing the planet's future energy needs

Biofuels incentives: a summary of federal programs [govt e-resource]

Biofuels, solar and wind as renewable energy systems: benefits and risks

Biomass recalcitrance: deconstructing the plant cell wall for bioenergy

Bioprocessing for value-added products from renewable resources: new technologies and applications

[The] clean tech revolution: discover the top trends, technologies, and companies to watch

Fundamentals of renewable energy processes

Green: your place in the new energy revolution

Microbial fuel cells

Renewable energy: sustainable energy concepts for the future

Sustainable energy: opportunities and limitations

Sustainable ethanol: biofuels, biorefineries, cellulosic biomass, flex-fuel vehicles, and sustainable farming for energy independence  [TK]

 

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