Microbes play a vital role in making the earth sustainable. Omnipresent in nature, they inhabit extreme conditions and are essential for human existence, from food fermentation to medicine. This volume highlights the importance of microbial biodiversity to society.
Modelling Offshore Wind Farm Operation and Maintenance
Offshore wind energy is a vital green resource, but its main challenge is the high cost of operation and maintenance. This book explores how to reduce failure rates and make offshore wind energy cheaper, using condition monitoring systems and real-world case studies.
With fossil fuels depleting, reliable and eco-friendly energy is essential. This book discusses renewable resources like wind and solar power, comparing them to non-renewable sources with data from case studies and exploring their advantages over conventional energy.
Founded by Dr Cho Han Kyu, Natural Farming is a nature-respecting alternative to chemical-intensive agriculture that assures high yield and good quality for lower costs. Now used in over 15 countries, it provides tools to improve livelihoods and conserve the environment.
This book focuses on the co-estimation strategies of State-of-Charge (SOC) and State-of-Health (SOH) for lithium-ion batteries. It proposes a collaborative optimization strategy based on neural networks, providing technical references for scholars and engineers.
This book covers core estimation methods, intelligent condition assessment, and management for energy storage systems. It provides a theoretical foundation and practical guide with rich examples for researchers and practitioners seeking to innovate in the field.
Reclaiming Indigenous Knowledge Systems
This book explores people-forest relationships in Kenya through the Indigenous Knowledge of the Agĩkũyũ people. It confronts the history of land dispossession, cements the forest’s role in the struggle for independence, and shows how this wisdom can forge sustainable futures.
Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime
This book re-contextualizes Romantic rhetorical theory to construct a Neo-Romantic theory for our time. Correcting misconceptions about major Romantic writers, it uniquely links their love of nature to the current environmental crisis.
Safety Management for the City Gas Industry
City gas provides great convenience but also poses dangers. This book discusses safety issues from a management perspective, sorting out important Chinese laws and summarising practices and experiences to benefit professionals across the globe.
Solar PV power is intermittent. This book provides an understanding of this variability and its impacts on power systems. It explores the sources of intermittency, from solar irradiation to dust, and the consequences for power system design and operation.
The Change of Paradigm in Nuclear Fuel Optimization
Current nuclear fuel optimization cannot predict accidents and suffers from great uncertainty. This book details a new philosophy based on the synergic paradigm to minimize radioactive leakage, resolve the safety-efficiency contradiction, and ensure safer reactor operation.
The Future of Post-Human Performing Arts
This book offers a new transdisciplinary theory of performing arts to go beyond existing traditions. This seminal project will fundamentally change how we think about the arts from the combined perspectives of the mind, society, and culture.
This book explores the link between human comfort and energy efficiency. Integrating engineering, psychology, and social sciences, it explains how human behaviour impacts energy use and offers practical solutions for creating more energy-conscious environments.
This book demonstrates why integrating small residential photovoltaics into the public grid is one of the best solutions to our energy problems, with low impact on power systems. It introduces a new concept: simultaneous on/off grid operation with a triple function inverter.
The Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea has experienced significant alterations due to natural processes, but human activities have accelerated these changes. Rising sea levels, pollution, and loss of biodiversity threaten this vital ecosystem, requiring urgent global efforts.
Heat transfer is vital for efficient power production. This book covers efficiently utilizing energy by integrating heat exchangers into power production units. It provides descriptions of heat transfer applications in everyday life and industry, supported by practical examples.
Towards Sustainable Energy
Hailing renewables as the solution to climate change is an overoptimistic diagnostic. This book analyzes all primary energy sources, concluding the transition to an energy system with acceptable emissions is far from smooth. Mankind is at a crossroads with difficult decisions.
This book addresses trends in renewable energy sources, energy storage, and smart systems. In addition to photovoltaic and wind generation, it considers new solutions for smart grids, energy management, and innovative renewable exploitation techniques.
In a context of severe environmental requirements and energy saving responsibilities, the proper use of water offers many possibilities. This book builds on work dedicated to improving combustion efficiency in engines, gas turbines, and boilers by using additive water.
This book explores efficient energy utilization in industrial sites, offering a recipe to minimize Global Warming and Ozone Depletion. It presents insights into thermodynamics and energy management to help engineers deal with energy issues from a more global perspective.