Este libro desarrolla los contenidos del módulo profesional de Configuración de Instalaciones Solares Fotovoltaicas del Ciclo Formativo de grado superior de Energías Renovables, perteneciente a la familia profesional de Energía y Agua. La obra desarrolla, de una forma amena y práctica, los siguientes temas: • El potencial solar, las tablas y los datos necesarios para evaluar la radiación solar y los análisis de la orientación, la inclinación y las sombras de los módulos. • La descripción de diferentes instalaciones solares y sus componentes, sus anteproyectos y los estudios económicos y financieros. • El diseño, el cálculo y los esquemas de instalaciones fotovoltaicas, tanto aisladas como conectadas a la red. • El análisis de las estructuras soporte de instalaciones fotovoltaicas. • El cálculo de instalaciones eléctricas en viviendas y edificios. • La simbología, los esquemas y los planos que aparecen en instalaciones fotovoltaicas. • La elaboración de memorias, proyectos y presupuestos. • Los procesos de tramitación de instalaciones fotovoltaicas y la documentación necesaria. Se estructura en nueve unidades que incluyen gran número de figuras, esquemas y tablas, que clarifican los contenidos teóricos, además de variadas actividades, que permiten afianzar y poner en práctica dichos contenidos. También cuenta con notas técnicas y cuadros de información adicional. Asimismo, cada unidad ofrece al final un mapa conceptual, que permite el repaso efectivo de sus conceptos clave, y actividades finales de comprobación, de aplicación y de ampliación para un repaso global y efectivo. Además, la obra incluye unos anexos finales en los que se pueden consultar esquemas eléctricos típicos de diferentes tipos de instalaciones fotovoltaicas.

Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.

The Green Studio Handbook remains an essential resource for design studios and professional practice. This extensive and user-friendly tool presents practical guidelines for the application of green strategies during the schematic design of buildings. Students and professionals can quickly get up to speed on system viability and sizing. Each of forty-three environmental strategies includes a brief description of principles and concepts, step-by-step guidance for integrating the strategy during the early stages of design, annotated tables and charts to assist with preliminary sizing, key issues to consider when implementing the strategy, and pointers to further resources. Ten new in-depth case studies illustrate diverse and successful green buildings integrated design projects and how the whole process comes together This third edition features updated tables and charts that will help to save energy, water, and material resources during the early stages of design. More than 500 sketches and full-color images illustrate how to successfully apply strategies. A glossary, a project index listing 105 buildings in 20 countries, updated tables and drawings, and I-P and SI units increase the usefulness of The Green Studio Handbook.

The electric utility industry in the US is technologically complex, and its structure as a classic network industry makes it intricate in business terms as well, so deregulation of such a complicated industry was a particularly detailed process. Steve Isser provides a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the history of the transformation of this complex industry from the 1978 Energy Policy Act to the present, covering the economic, legal, regulatory, and political issues and controversies in the transition from regulated utilities to competitive electricity markets. The book is a multidisciplinary study that includes a comprehensive review of the economic literature on electricity markets, the political environment of electricity policymaking, administrative and regulatory rulemaking, and the federal case law that restrained state and federal regulation of electricity. Isser offers a valuable case study of the pitfalls and problems associated with the deregulation of a complex network industry.

Based on a four-year study, Manga High explores the convergence of literacy, creativity, social development, and personal identity in one of New York City’s largest high schools. Since 2004, students at Martin Luther King, Jr., High School in Manhattan have been creating manga—Japanese comic books. They write the stories, design the characters, and publish their works in print and on the Internet. These students—African-American and Latino teenagers—are more than interested in the art and medium of manga. They have become completely engrossed in Japanese language, culture, and society. Manga High is highlighted by reproductions and content analysis of students’ original art and writing. An appendix includes guidelines for educators on starting a comic book club.