performance and energy consumption, which has been mostly based in the use of fossil fuels. …

fundamental support systems (energy, food, and water supply). The process introduced some creative tensions between imaginative …

driving forces in the global energy use. Data from recent history are superimposed on projections of SRES IPCC scenarios to … population growth and in the percentage of use of fossil fuels in the total energy mix. Decomposition of alternative energy …

) introduced the Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program (RESOP), offering owners of solar PV systems with a generation capacity …

behaviour of energy and matter are not equally mirrored by thermodynamic laws. Thermodynamic insights as typically employed in …

Many factors to be appropriately addressed in moving towards energy sustainability are examined. These include … harnessing sustainable energy sources, utilizing sustainable energy carriers, increasing efficiency, reducing environmental … with the approach put forward, and options for energy sustainability and the broader objective of sustainability. Energy …

This manuscript uses data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to analyze the potential for energy recovery … electricity generation. These energy recovery strategies could help offset the electricity consumption of the wastewater sector … and represent possible areas for sustainable energy policy implementation. We estimate that anaerobic digestion could save …

focuses on energy and gives an overview of the various social forces that can potentially counteract the future tensions … arising from the foreseeable depletion of energy sources. It argues that only some of these countervailing forces—namely state …