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| List of figures | |
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| List of tables | |
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| Introduction to electricity generation | |
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| History of the electricity generation industry | |
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| The evolution of electricity generation technologies | |
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| The politics of electricity | |
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| The size of the industry | |
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| Environmental considerations | |
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| The evolution of environmental awareness | |
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| The environmental effects of power generation | |
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| The hydrogen economy | |
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| Externalities | |
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| Life-cycle assessment | |
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| The bottom line | |
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| Coal-fired power plants | |
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| Types of coal | |
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| Traditional coal-burning power plant technology | |
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| Emission control for traditional coal-burning plants | |
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| Advanced coal-burning power plant technology | |
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| Environmental effects of coal combustion | |
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| Financial risks associated with coal-fired power generation | |
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| The cost of coal-fired electricity generation | |
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| Gas turbines and combined cycle power plants | |
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| Natural gas | |
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| Gas turbine technology | |
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| Advanced gas turbine design | |
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| Distributed generation | |
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| Combined cycle power plants | |
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| Micro turbines | |
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| Environmental impact of gas turbines | |
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| Financial risks associated with gas-turbine-based power projects | |
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| The cost of gas turbine power stations | |
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| Combined heat and power | |
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| History | |
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| Applications | |
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| CHP technology | |
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| Environmental considerations | |
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| Energy efficiency | |
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| Financial risks | |
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| Cost of CHP | |
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| Piston-engine-based power plants | |
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| Piston engine technology | |
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| Co-generation | |
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| Combined cycle | |
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| Environmental considerations | |
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| Financial risks | |
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| Costs | |
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| Fuel cells | |
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| The fuel cell principle | |
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| Fuel cell chemistry | |
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| Types of fuel cell | |
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| Phosphoric acid fuel cell | |
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| Proton-exchange membrane fuel cell | |
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| Molten carbonate fuel cells | |
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| Solid oxide fuel cells | |
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| Environmental considerations | |
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| Financial risks | |
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| Fuel cell costs | |
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| Hydropower | |
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| The hydropower resource | |
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| Hydro sites | |
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| Dams and barrages | |
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| Turbines | |
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| Small hydropower | |
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| The environment | |
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| Financial risks | |
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| The cost of hydropower | |
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| Tidal power | |
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| Tidal motion | |
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| The tidal resource | |
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| Tidal technology | |
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| Environmental considerations | |
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| Financial risks | |
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| The cost of tidal power | |
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| Storage technologies | |
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| Types of energy storage | |
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| Pumped storage hydropower | |
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| Compressed air energy storage | |
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| Large-scale batteries | |
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| Superconducting magnetic energy storage | |
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| Flywheels | |
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| Capacitors | |
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| Hydrogen | |
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| Environmental considerations | |
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| Costs | |
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| Wind power | |
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| Wind sites | |
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| Wind turbines | |
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| Offshore wind technology | |
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| Constraints on wind capacity | |
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| Environmental considerations | |
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| Financial risks | |
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| The cost of wind power | |
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| Geothermal power | |
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| The geothermal resource | |
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| Geothermal energy conversion technology | |
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| Environmental considerations | |
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| Financial risks | |
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| The cost of geothermal power | |
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| Solar power | |
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| The solar energy resource | |
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| Sites for solar power generation | |
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| Solar technology | |
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| Solar thermal power generation | |
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| Photovoltaic devices | |
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| Solar cell deployment | |
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| Environmental considerations | |
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| Financial risks | |
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| The cost of solar power | |
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| Ocean power | |
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| Ocean energy resource | |
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| Ocean thermal energy conversion | |
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| Wave energy | |
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| Ocean current generation | |
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| Biomass-based power generation | |
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| Types of biomass | |
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| Biomass energy conversion technology | |
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| Environmental considerations | |
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| Financial risks | |
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| The cost of biomass generated power | |
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| Power from waste | |
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| Landfill waste disposal | |
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| Waste sources | |
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| Waste composition | |
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| Waste collection | |
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| Waste power generation technologies | |
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| Environmental considerations | |
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| Financial risks | |
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| The cost of energy from waste | |
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| Nuclear power | |
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| Fundamentals of nuclear power | |
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| Nuclear reactors | |
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| Nuclear fusion | |
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| Environmental considerations | |
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| Financial risks associated with investing in nuclear power | |
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| The cost of nuclear power | |
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| Index | |