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Renewable resources

Class at Faculty of Science |
MG432P14

Syllabus

Review of energy and material flows at the Earth (population, materials consumption, technological progress and innovation, etc. )

Geothermal energy (geological background, technical applications).

Heat pumps, low-energy zero-energy buildings.

Biomass as source of energy - plants and trees.

Energy of the ocean (wave, tidal, thermal).

Wind energy.

Solar thermal energy.

Solar photovoltaic energy.

Small hydro-electric power stations

Summary.

Annotation

Overview of renewable energetic resources: solar, water, wind, geothermal, biomass. Energetic concepts, materials flows and consumption trends and forecasts.