"Renewable Energy: Entropy and Exergy" by Lin-Shu Wang

The theme of the book is that one cannot talk about energy’s impact on our physical world without the language of both exergy and entropy, including the dual nature of the latter, and that understanding this dual nature is the key to sustainable order creation in the renewable energy era. This book aims to provide a scientific foundation/understanding on the necessity and benefits of energy transition as well as a platform for scientists/engineers for disseminating their original research findings and their scholarship on literature review on energy/entropy/exergy.

Joule and Kelvin’s introduction of the concept of energy in the middle of the 19th century set the stage for the Second Industrial Revolution. The Revolution has been powered by fossil fuels, a form of stock energy that is rich in potential for entropy growth. The same richness in potential that makes it so useful, however, is cause for prodigious heat and CO_2 production, the unchecked accumulation of which, today, poses existential threat to mankind on Earth. Cognizant of this fact, the worldwide communities have come to embrace the imperative for a 21st century transition from stock energy to renewable energy.
Thermodynamically speaking, usefulness of energy can only be understood in terms of its exergy content: energies of low exergetic content are of little value. One cannot talk about energy without the language of exergy.

The dual nature of entropy was demonstrated in a book in terms of the entropy principle as entropy growth selection principle and entropy growth potential principle. This has bearing on one of the great scientific mysteries: how could life and civilizations (forms of sustainable orders) have evolved if the alleged tendency of the Universe is to increase entropy until universal heat-death (Schrödinger’s paradox)?

As the architect James Wines wrote in 2008 Britannica Book of the Year, “The ultimate success of green architecture is likely to require that advocates achieve a broad-based philosophical accord and provide the same kind of persuasive catalyst for change that the Industrial Revolution offered in the 19th century.” The same can be said about green energy and an “ecological revolution.” Chapters regarding research proposals and research ideas will be welcome; as well as review article-chapters on entropy and exergy and article-chapters that inform reader how to apply exergy analysis and energy analysis to renewable energy systems.


Contents
1. Dynamic Extended Exergy Analysis of Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emitter Based Electricity Generation
2. Aerodynamic Analysis and Performance Prediction of VAWT and HAWT Using CARDAAV and Qblade Computer Codes
3. Assessment and Analysis of Offshore Wind Energy Potential
4. Nonlinear Control Strategies of an Autonomous Double Fed Induction Generator Based Wind Energy Conversion Systems
5. Scale Invariant Turbulence and Gibbs Free Energy in the Atmosphere
6. Entropy Based Biological Sequence Study
7. A Comprehensive Review on Available/Existing Renewable Energy Systems in Malaysia and Comparison of Their Capability of Electricity Generation in Malaysia
8. Itaipu Technology Park: An Eco-Innovative Niche for Renewable Energies


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