renewable energy is derived from the natural processes that are replenished constantly. in its various forms, it derives directly from the sun, or from the deep heat generated from the earth. it isdefined as the electricity and heat being generated from solar, wind, ocean, hydropower, biomass, geothermal resources, biofuels, and the obtained hydrogen from the renewable resources. the renewable ...

This article reviews issues related to the incorporation of non-renewable resources in the theory of economic growth and development. As an o¤shoot of the new growth theory of the last two decades a series of contributions have studied endogenous technical change in relation to resource scarcity. We discuss the main approaches within this literature and consider questions like: How is the new l...

The new EU policy for climate protection and promotion of renewable energies introduces under other strategies the concept of buildings as power plants. This concept is based on so called Energy-Plus-House, the next generation of Passive House – a building that would produce more energy than it consumes. Even though the institutional policies do promote the new, innovative forms of buildings an...

The objectives of this research were to investigate influences of energy inputs and energy forms on output levels and evaluation of CO2 emissions for hazelnut production in Guilan province of Iran. Moreover, the sensitivity analysis was done by marginal physical productivity (MPP) method for energy inputs and energy using linear regression. Initial data were collected from 120 orchar...

All renewable energy systems make some contribution to climate change. This is due to the emission of greenhouse gases from the fossil fuels combusted for their construction, and as back-up energy during their operation. Accurate calculation of greenhouse gas emissions per kilowatt hour of electricity is difficult, but is an important part of policy making and planning. Calculation methodologie...

the aims of this study were to investigate the energy flow and its modeling in shablon cultivar of plum production in golestan province of iran. data were collected through questionnaires and also interviews with producers. cobb-douglass model and sensitivity analysis were used to determine the effects of energy inputs on plum yield. the results revealed that the total energy inputs and energy ...

nowadays using of new energies in the form of dispersed resources in the worlds is wide spreading. in this article we will design a dispersed production source in the form of a solar/wind hybrid power plant in order to supply the energy of a residential unit according to a sample load pattern. the aim of aforementioned design is to reduce its costs in a period of 20 years. in order to optimi...