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Microhydro: Clean Power from Water by Scott Davis (New Society Publishers) Hydroelectricity is the world's largest – and cleanest – source of renewable energy. But despite lively interest in renewables generally, there is an information vacuum about the smallest version of a technology dubbed "the simplest, most reliable and least expensive way to generate power off grid." More

Logistics Engineering & Management, Sixth Edition by Benjamin S. Blanchard (Prentice Hall) An authoritative exploration of logistics management within the engineering design and development process, this book concentrates on the design, sustaining maintenance and support of systems. The volume provides complete coverage of reliability, maintainability, and availability measures, the measures of logistics and system support, the system engineering process, logistics and supportability analysis, system design and development, the production/construction phase, utilization, sustaining support and retirement phases, and logistics management. For those interested in logistics engineering and management.
There are many books that deal
with logistics from a commercial, business-related perspective, but Logistics Engineering & Management, Sixth Edition covers the' subject from the point of view of an engineer. The text intro­duces logistics from a broad perspective to include all activities throughout the system life-cycle pertaining to supply chain management, the physical supply and distribution of products, and the sustaining maintenance and support of systems throughout their planned life cycles. Also addressed are logistics and the maintenance support infrastructure as a major element of the "system" from a total life-cycle perspective rather than as an independent and separate function. More

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