Sustainability And Environmental Impact Of Renewable Energy Sources -- Contents -- The Future of Today's Energy Sources -- 1 The 1973 Energy Crisis -- 2 How Fossil Fuels Have Affected Our Lives -- 3 Energy Use in the World Today: Fuels and How They Are Used -- 4 Nature of Oil, Coal and Gas -- 5 Reserves of Fossil Fuels -- 6 The Future of Demand -- 7 Sequestration -- Sustainable Energy: Choices, Problems and Opportunities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Climate Change -- 3 Carbon Sequestration -- 4 Energy Efficient Generation -- 5 End Use Energy Efficiency -- 6 Nuclear Power -- 7 Renewables -- 8 Progress with Renewables -- 9 Assessing the Costs of Sustainable Energy -- 10 Risks -- 11 Carbon Accounting and Energy Analysis -- 12 Land Use -- 13 Choices for a Sustainable Energy Future -- 14 Conclusions -- Renewable Energy: Technology Considerations and Electricity Integration -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Brief Introduction to Integration Issues -- 3 Wind Power -- 4 Photovoltaics -- 5 Water Power -- 6 Biomass -- 7 Small Grids and Isolated Systems -- Landfill Gas and Related Energy Sources: Anaerobic Digesters -- Biomass Energy Systems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Energy Potential -- 3 Fuel Production Technology -- 4 Conversion Technology -- 5 Constraints -- 6 Economics -- 7 Conclusions: Environmental Impacts and Carbon Certification -- Emissions Trading Schemes: Are They a 'Licence to Pollute'? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Practical Experience of Emissions Trading -- 3 Conclusions -- UK Government Policy on Renewable Energy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 NFFO and Initial Success -- 3 Towards the Obligation -- 4 Supporting the Obligation -- 5 What Next for Renewables -- Renewables, Sustainability and Precaution: Beyond Environmental Cost-Benefit and Risk Analysis -- 1 Assessing the Sustainability of Energy Options -- 2 Some Practical Difficulties -- 3 Key Methodological Issues.

4 Underlying Theoretical Problems -- 5 Science and Precaution in Energy Sustainability -- 6 General Implications for the Development of Sustainable Energy Strategies -- 7 Acknowledgements -- Subject Index.