Renewable energy [electronic resource] : sustainable concepts for the energy change / edited by Roland Wengenmayr and Thomas Bührke.

Foreword: first-hand information / Thomas Buhrke and Roland Wengenmayr
The development: renewable energy sources-a survey / Harald Kohl and Wolfhart Durrschmidt
Wind energy: a tailwind for sustainable technology / Martin Kuhn and Tobias Klaus
Hydroelectric power plants: flowing energy / Roland Wengenmayr
Solar thermal power plants: how the sun gets into the power plant / Robert Pitz-Paal
Photovoltaic energy conversion: solar cells - an overview / Roland Wengenmayr
New materials for photovoltaics: solar cells from ribbon silicon / Giso Hahn
CIS thin-film solar cells: low-priced modules for solar construction / Nikolaus Meyer
CdTe thin-film solar cells: on the path towards power-grid parity / Michael Harr, Dieter Bonnet and Karl-Heinz Fischer
Geothermal power generation: energy from the depths / Ernst Huenges
Biofuels: green opportunity or danger? / Roland Wengenmayr
Biofuels are not necessarily sustainable: twists and turns around biofuels / Gerhard Kreysa
Biofuels from algae: concentrated green energy / Carola Griehl, Simone Bieler and Clemens Posten
The Karlsruhe bioliq process: synthetic fuels from the biomass / Nicolaus Dahmen, Eckard Dinjus and Edmund Henrich
Solar updraft tower power plant: electric power from hot air / Jorg Schlaich, Rudolf Bergermann and Gerhard Weinrebe
Tidal-stream power plants: sun, moon and earth as power source / Albert Ruprecht and Jochen Weilepp
Wave power plants: energy reserves from the oceans / Kai-Uwe Graw
Osmosis power plants: salty vs. fresh water / Klaus-Viktor Peinemann
DLR studies on the Desertec Project: power from the desert / Franz Trieb
Hydrogen for energy storage: hydrogen: an alternative to fossil fuels? / Detlef Stolten
Seasonal storage of thermal energy: heat on call / Silke Kohler, Frank Kabus and Ernst Huenges
Fuel cells: taming the flame / Joachim Hoffman
Mobility and sustainable energy: electric automobiles / Andrea Vezzini
Solar air conditioning: cooling with the heat of the sun / Roland Wengenmayr
Climate engineering: a super climate in the greenhouse / Roland Wengenmayr
A low-energy residence: an exceptional sustainability concept / Christian Matt and Matthias Schuler
Building thermography examined closely: the allure of multicolored images / Michael Vollmer and Klaus-Peter Mollmann.