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ALTERNATIVAS PARA A GERAÇÃO DE ENERGIA RENOVÁVEL NO BRASIL: A OPÇÃO PELA BIOMASSA
Marconato, Mariane Silva; Santini, Giuliana Aparecida - Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural - SOBER - 2008
Durante muito tempo, os recursos fósseis e hídricos foram os grandes propulsores da civilização e da economia. O Brasil também se apoiou nessas fontes energéticas para o desenvolvimento de atividades industriais, agrícolas, de serviços e da própria sociedade. Entretanto, vive-se hoje...
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Greening Africa? Technologies, endowments and the latecomer effect
Collier, Paul; Venables, Anthony J - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2012
Africa is well endowed with potential for hydro and solar power, but its other endowments – shortages of capital, skills, and governance capacity – make most of the green options relatively expensive, while its abundance of hydro-carbons makes fossil fuels relatively cheap. Current power...
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Greening Africa? Technologies, endowments and the latecomer effect
Collier, Paul; Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2012
Africa is well endowed with potential for hydro and solar power, but its other endowments – shortages of capital, skills, and governance capacity – make most of the green options relatively expensive, while its abundance of hydro-carbons makes fossil fuels relatively cheap. Current power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555211
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PROMOTING GREENING AND GREEN JOBS THROUGHOUT THE CRISIS – THE CASE OF ROMANIA
GHINARARU, Catalin - In: Annals of Spiru Haret University, Economic Series 4 (2013) 1, pp. 35-46
effectiveness. The article also focuses on general aspects relating to greening of the economy and the growing use of renewable …
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Simulation of the solar hot water systems diffusion: the case of Greece
Sidiras, D.; Koukios, E. - In: Renewable Energy 29 (2004) 6, pp. 907-919
The main object of this paper is the documentation and study of the main factors behind the spectacular diffusion of solar energy use for domestic hot water production in Greece. The time pattern of the diffusion of flat-plate solar collectors since its ‘out of the blue’ first appearance in...
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Development of a test facility to evaluate performance of a domestic wood pellet boiler
Kang, Sae Byul; Kim, Jong Jin; Choi, Kyu Sung; Sim, Bong Suk - In: Renewable Energy 54 (2013) C, pp. 2-7
Wood pellet is solid biomass energy and one of renewable energy sources. In 2008, new and renewable energy (NRE …) portion is 2.4% with respect to total primary energy in Korea. Korea government wants to increase new and renewable energy …, such as incentive policy, NRE mandatory use for public building and renewable portfolio standard (RPS) and so on. One of …
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The viability and best locations for ocean thermal energy conversion systems around the world
Lennard, D.E. - In: Renewable Energy 6 (1995) 3, pp. 359-365
Marine renewable energies offer alternatives to fossil and nuclear energies. Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is …
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Why are remote Western Australians installing renewable energy technologies in stand-alone power supply systems?
McHenry, Mark P. - In: Renewable Energy 34 (2009) 5, pp. 1252-1256
non-idealistic perspective towards using renewable energy technologies. This research explores pastoral owner … basic needs. This research concluded that the impressive growth in total renewable energy capacity in remote off-grid SPS … systems in WA is primarily due to subsidies that aim to fuel-switch to renewable energy sources. Despite this, other major …
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The role of renewables in meeting rural energy needs in South Asia
Chaturvedi, Pradeep - In: Renewable Energy 16 (1999) 1, pp. 991-995
fossil resources. South Asia is expected to continue its dependence on renewable sources of energy for meeting rural energy …
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Assessing idling effects on a compression ignition engine fueled with Jatropha and Palm biodiesel blends
Rahman, S.M. Ashrafur; Masjuki, H.H.; Kalam, M.A.; … - In: Renewable Energy 68 (2014) C, pp. 644-650
In this study, performance of a diesel engine operated with Jatropha and Palm biodiesel blends at high idling conditions has been evaluated. The result obtained from experiment elucidate that, at all idling modes HC and CO emissions of both blends decreases, however, NOx emissions increases...
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