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Sustainability in Energy Technologies

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Energy demand continues to grow worldwide while extraction of fossil fuels becomes more difficult and expensive. The ways we produce, convert, store, and use energy are changing earth’s climate and affecting environment and hence the ways of human life as well as the next generation’s future.

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Demirel, Y. (2016). Sustainability in Energy Technologies. In: Energy. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29650-0_11

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