Renewable Energy

Preface - Eicke WeberForeword - Roland Wengenmayr, Thomas BührkeRenewable Energy Sources on the Rise - Harald KohlA Tailwind for Sustainable Technology - Martin KühnFlowing Energy - Roland WengenmayrHow the Sun gets into the Power Plant - Robert Pitz- PaalSolar Cells - an Overview - Roland WengenmayrSolar Cells from Ribbon Silicon - Giso HahnPhotovoltaic Cells on Glass - Nikolaus MeyerCdTe-thin film solar cells - Michael Harr Energy from the Depths of the Earth - Ernst HuengesDoes the Future belong to Biogas - Roland WengenmayrConfusion about "bio" fuels - KreysaFuel from seaweed - GriehlSynthetic Fuels from the Biomass - Nicolaus DahmenEletric Power from Hot Air - Jörg Schlaich, Gerhard WeinrebeTidal current power stations - RuprechtEnergy Reserves from the Oceans - Kai-Uwe GrawOsmosis power station - PeinemannIs the Hydrogen Economy Around the Corner? - Gerd EisenbeissDESERTEC- TriebHydrogen, an alternative to fossil energy carriers? - StoltenHeat on Call - Silke Köhler, Frank Kabus, Ernst HuengesTaming the Flame - Joachim HoffmannElectric vehicles - Andrea VezziniCooling with the Heat of the Sun - Roland WengenmayrA Super Climate in the Greenhouse - Roland WengenmayrAn Exceptional Sustainabliliy Concept - Christian Matt, Matthias SchulerBuilding thermography - Michael VollmerHow Political Will Changes a Country - Thomas Bührke

Roland Wengenmayr is science journalist and editor of the journal "Physik in unserer Zeit". He studied physics in Darmstadt, with a temporary stay at the European research laboratory CERN in Geneva. After the diploma he worked as an engineer in the chemical plant construction then he moved on to the publishing house Wiley-VCH, where he worked as commissioning editor for physics and physical chemistry. Today he writes for prominent newspapers on topics like e.g. renewable energy. Thomas Bührke is science journalist, editor of the journal "Physik in unserer Zeit", and author of several popular science books within the ranges of physics and astrophysics. He studied Physics at the universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg and attained there a doctorate at the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy. Subsequently, he changed to the publishing house Wiley VCH, where he started as an editor of the journal "Physikalischen Blätter" (now: "Physik Journal") and later changed to "Physik in unserer Zeit".