Main course textbook:

Sustainable Energy - without the hot air by David MacKay

Further reading on Embodied energy, life-cycle analysis

Michael F Ashby Materials and the Environment - Eco-informed Material Choice Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN 978-1-85617-608-8

(400 pages)

Books for reading about exergy and thermodynamics

M.J. Moran and H.N. Shapiro Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (Wiley, 1993)

Fairly extensive coverage on exergy, chemical equilibrium, equations of state

Y.A. Cengel and M.A. Boles Thermodynamics, An Engineering Approach (McGraw-Hill, 1989)

Easy to read.

G.F.C. Rogers and Y.R. Mayhew Engineering Thermodynamics, Work and Heat Transfer (Longman)

The classic British engineering thermodynamics text, now almost 50 years old.

K. Denbigh The Principles of Chemical Equilibrium (CUP)

First published in 1954 and possibly out of print but one of the best books on thermodynamics.

P W Atkins Physical Chemistry

Other books

Nelson J The Physics of Solar Cells, (Imperial 2003)

Blankenship R E Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis (Blackwell 2002)