Supplement to energy for rural development: renewable resources and alternative technologies for developing countries. Final report

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:5895396

In 1976, the National Academy of Sciences published Energy for Rural Development: Renewable Resources and Alternative Technologies for Developing Countries, which presented information on a variety of subjects, including direct uses of solar energy (heating, cooling, distillation, crop drying, photovoltaics), indirect uses of solar energy (wind power, hydropower, photosynthesis, biomass), geothermal energy, and energy storage. This supplement includes information on new technologies developing during that period and on advances made in technologies described in the original volume. Like that volume, this report serves merely to direct the reader where to go for more information, and is not intended to be a 'how-to' manual or detailed catalog. Almost all of the subjects in the original book are discussed again and there are new discussions of pedal power and conditioning of electric power.

• Research Organization: National Research Council, Washington, DC (USA). Board on Science and Technology for International Development
• OSTI ID: 5895396
• Report Number(s): PB-81-231011
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING
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DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
BIOMASS
ELECTRIC BATTERIES
ENERGY STORAGE
INVERTERS
PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS
REVIEWS
RURAL AREAS
SOLAR HEATING
STIRLING ENGINES
DIRECT ENERGY CONVERTERS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENGINES
EQUIPMENT
HEAT ENGINES
HEATING
PHOTOELECTRIC CELLS
STORAGE
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