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Essentials of Sustainable Energy Systems provides a concise and up-to-date look at energy sources, ecoonomics, and engineering applications for a sustainable future. Written by leading experts, and taking a global perspective, this textbook concentrates on the practical applications for achieving energy efficiency and a cleaner environment. Each source of clean energy - wind, solar, biomass, and ocean/tidal - is examined from both the engineering and the economic points of view. Methods for forecasting, evaluating and trnsitioning energy production and usage are integrated, so that the book will be more than just a topical survey of energy sources.

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Susan Krumdieck is Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and is involved with the Advanced Energy & Material Systems Laboratory there. She received her PhD from the University of Colorado-Boulder; her areas of research include fuel cell technology, alternative energy systems, materails for energy systems, and enginerring transitioning. Frank Kreith is an internationally renowned expert in Solar Energy, Heat Transfer and Thermal Energy, and is the author of numerous textbooks and reference works in these fields. Dr. Kreith received his PhD from the University of Paris, and taught at the University of Colorado-Boulder until his retirement. Jana B. Milford is a professor and former department chair in the Mechanical Engineering department at the Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; she received her PhD from Carnegie-Mellon University, and J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School. Her research includes application of formal sensitivity and uncertainty analysis and optimization techniques to chemistry and transport models, and use of these models in making decisions.

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