Cool Energy: Renewable Solutions to Environmental Problems

Cool Energy provides the first major review of progress in the field of renewable energy technologies--solar, wind, biomass (plant matter), hydroelectric, and geothermal--since the mid-1980s.

The energy challenge; the renewable alternative; solar energy; wind energy; energy from rivers and oceans; geothermal energy; energy storage; policies for a renewable future. Appendices: units and conversion factors; US renewable energy funding; readings.