The Students's textbook of electricity
Author : Henry Minchin Noad
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 1867
Category :
ISBN :
Electric Universe
Author : David Bodanis
Publisher : Crown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307335984
Book Description
The bestselling author of E=mc2 weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through an account of the invisible force that permeates our universe—electricity—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets. For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention. The force that once seemed inconsequential was revealed to be responsible for everything from the structure of the atom to the functioning of our brains. In harnessing its power, we have created a world of wonders—complete with roller coasters and radar, computer networks and psychopharmaceuticals. In Electric Universe, the great discoverers come to life in all their brilliance and idiosyncrasy, including the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system, and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York City on a platform of persecuting Catholics. Here too is Alan Turing, whose dream of a marvelous thinking machine—what we know as the computer—was met with indifference, and who ended his life in despair after British authorities forced him to undergo experimental treatments to “cure” his homosexuality. From the frigid waters of the Atlantic to the streets of Hamburg during a World War II firestorm to the interior of the human body, Electric Universe is a mesmerizing journey of discovery.
Electricity Markets
Author : Chris Harris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470011580
Book Description
Understand the electricity market, its policies and how they drive prices, emissions, and security, with this comprehensive cross-disciplinary book. Author Chris Harris includes technical and quantitative arguments so you can confidently construct pricing models based on the various fluctuations that occur. Whether you?re a trader or an analyst, this book will enable you to make informed decisions about this volatile industry.
Electricity and Magnetism
Author : Teruo Matsushita
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 4431545263
Book Description
The author introduces the concept that superconductivity can establish a perfect formalism of electricity and magnetism. The correspondence of electric materials that exhibit perfect electrostatic shielding (E=0) in the static condition and superconductors that show perfect diamagnetism (B=0) is given to help readers understand the relationship between electricity and magnetism. Another helpful aspect with the introduction of the superconductivity feature perfect diamagnetism is that the correspondence in the development of the expression of magnetic energy and electric energy is clearly shown. Additionally, the basic mathematical operation and proofs are shown in an appendix, and there is full use of examples and exercises in each chapter with thorough answers.
The Power of Selling
Author : Kimberly K. Richmond
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9781936126101
Book Description
Economics of Electricity
Author : Anna Cretì
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107185653
Book Description
Explains the economics of electricity at each step of the supply chain: production, transportation and distribution, and retail.
A Textbook in Electricity and Magnetism
Author : Harry C. Kelly
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Electricity
ISBN :
Book Description
Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Author : J. L. Heilbron
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520334604
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
The Energy System
Author : Travis Bradford
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1211 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262345013
Book Description
A comprehensive textbook that integrates tools from technology, economics, markets, and policy to approach energy issues using a dynamic systems and capital-centric perspective. The global energy system is the vital foundation of modern human industrial society. Traditionally studied through separate disciplines of engineering, economics, environment, or public policy, this system can be fully understood only by using an approach that integrates these tools. This textbook is the first to take a dynamic systems perspective on understanding energy systems, tracking energy from primary resource to final energy services through a long and capital-intensive supply chain bounded by both macroeconomic and natural resource systems. The book begins with a framework for understanding how energy is transformed as it moves through the system with the aid of various types of capital, its movement influenced by a combination of the technical, market, and policy conditions at the time. It then examines the three primary energy subsystems of electricity, transportation, and thermal energy, explaining such relevant topics as systems thinking, cost estimation, capital formation, market design, and policy tools. Finally, the book reintegrates these subsystems and looks at their relation to the economic system and the ecosystem that they inhabit. Practitioners and theorists from any field will benefit from a deeper understanding of both existing dynamic energy system processes and potential tools for intervention.
Power System Economics
Author : Steven Stoft
Publisher : Wiley-IEEE Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2002-05-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780471150404
Book Description
The first systematic presentation of electricity market design-from the basics to the cutting edge. Unique in its breadth and depth. Using examples and focusing on fundamentals, it clarifies long misunderstood issues-such as why today's markets are inherently unstable. The book reveals for the first time how uncoordinated regulatory and engineering policies cause boom-bust investment swings and provides guidance and tools for fixing broken markets. It also takes a provocative look at the operation of pools and power exchanges. * Part 1 introduces key economic, engineering and market design concepts. * Part 2 links short-run reliability policies with long-run investment problems. * Part 3 examines classic designs for day-ahead and real-time markets. * Part 4 covers market power, and * Part 5 covers locational pricing, transmission right and pricing losses. The non-technical introductions to all chapters allow easy access to the most difficult topics. Steering an independent course between ideological extremes, it provides background material for engineers, economists, regulators and lawyers alike. With nearly 250 figures, tables, side bars, and concisely-stated results and fallacies, the 44 chapters cover such essential topics as auctions, fixed-cost recovery from marginal cost, pricing fallacies, real and reactive power flows, Cournot competition, installed capacity markets, HHIs, the Lerner index and price caps. About the Author Steven Stoft has a Ph.D. in economics (U.C. Berkeley) as well as a background in physics, math, engineering, and astronomy. He spent a year inside FERC and now consults for PJM, California and private generators. Learn more at www.stoft.com.
