Social visions to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources have motivated unprecedented growth in global renewable energy manufacturing. Previous literature shows that people committed to realizing such visions have difficulties reconciling with the negative social-ecological impacts...

High energy consumption and the world population increase will lead to shrinking reserves of fossil fuels. Concern about carbon dioxide emissions may discourage widespread dependence on fossil fuels and encourage the development and use of renewable energy systems employing a variety of...

The sector of Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) is growing very fast, with many innovations and applications becoming a reality. The continuous reduction of natural resources has forced all policymakers to turn to alternative energy sources. The total energy (oil and electricity consumption)...

The sector of Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) is growing very fast, with many innovations and applications becoming a reality. The continuous reduction of natural resources has forced all policymakers to turn to alternative energy sources. The total energy (oil and electricity consumption)...

There is an indispensable need to develop geothermal technologies to supplement the long-term energy needs of Pakistan to a significant level. Geothermal energy is one of the oldest, most versatile and also most common form of utilization of renewable energy. Pakistan is rich in geothermal...

In Croatia there is an urgent need to improve energy balance with more efficient methods of energy resources exploitation. There are approximately 3,000 wells drilled on oil, gas/condensate and geothermal reservoirs, of which only 50 were primarily drilled for purpose of geothermal exploitation....

At the beginning of the 1980s the installed geothermal electric capacity in the world was 1960 MW, rising to 3698.5 MW in 1985, and 5835.5 MW in 1990. At the beginning of 1993 the installed capacity had reached 5915 MW, an increase of 202% with respect to 1980. The percentage increase in...

In the absence of any likely international law in the near future to impose comprehensive obligations on nations to take action to promote renewable energy or energy conservation, such action will be required at national level. This paper proposes a generic legislative framework for the control...

In the paper renewable energy resources in Poland were analysed and estimated. The following sources were taken into consideration: solar radiation, biomass including biogas, liquid and solid biofuels, geothermal, hydro and wind energy. Some technologies suitable for application in Polish...

Afyon geothermal district heating system (AFJET) provides heating to 4519 residences, covering an area of 513,683m2. Due to limitations in reinjection capacity, geothermal waters are released to the Akarcay Stream, detrimentally affecting the environment. Optimum heating load of the system was...