The Renewable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus

The Renewable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus: Fundamentals, Technology, and Policy explores the connections between renewable energy, water, and the environment, along with their integration in the context of awareness, technologies, challenges, opportunities, and solutions. The book introduces different renewable energy technologies, including the importance of their development, use for a sustainable future, and their interrelationships. In-depth chapters then examine specific sub-relationships, focusing on renewable energy and water, renewable energy and the environment, and water and the environment. Available methods and tools for analyzing the renewable energy-water-environment nexus, including life cycle assessment of renewable energy systems are also covered. The last section of the book highlights key technologies and opportunities in the nexus, considering areas such as innovative cooling systems for thermoelectric plants to reduce or eliminate the use of water for cooling, reduction of water use in biofuels production, sea waves for desalination, grid management, energy storage systems, and hydrogen technologies, examining the integration of renewable energy, water, and environment-related policies, and discussing the application of artificial intelligence and nanotechnology techniques.

1. Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future 2. Introduction to Renewable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus Concept 3. Renewable Energy-Water Nexus 4. Renewable Energy-Environment Nexus 5. Water-Environment Nexus 6. Renewable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus Analysis 7. Life Cycle Assessment of Renewable Energy Systems 8. Technology Development in the Nexus of Renewable Energy, Water, and Environment 9. Policies Related to Renewable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus 10. Artificial Intelligence Application to the Nexus of Renewable Energy, Water, and Environment 11. Nanotechnology and the Renewable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus