Sustainability at the cutting edge : emerging technologies for low energy buildings / Peter F. Smith.
Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform th...
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/Architectural Press,
2007.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front cover; Sustainability at the Cutting Edge; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Climate change and sustainable energy: The 2005 Prince Philip Lecture at the Royal Society of Arts by Sir John Houghton CBE FRS; Chapter 2 Solar thermal power; Chapter 3 Low energy techniques for cooling; Chapter 4 Geothermal energy; Chapter 5 Wind power; Chapter 6 Photovoltaic cells; Chapter 7 Fuel cells; Chapter 8 Bioenergy; Chapter 9 Microgeneration and combined heat and power; Chapter 10 Small-scale hydro; Chapter 11 Wave and tide.