A review on the drawbacks of renewable energy as a promising energy source of the future

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 317-328

  Azarpour, Abbas ^a   Suhaimi, Suardi ^a   Zahedi, Gholamreza ^a   Bahadori, Alireza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomass; Geothermal; Renewable energy; Solar; Source; Wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873197693     PISSN: 2193567X     EISSN: 21914281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13369-012-0436-6     Document Type: Article

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