Book Description
Overview of energy demand for students, policymakers, and readers without scientific backgrounds.
Author : Robert L. Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521684484
Overview of energy demand for students, policymakers, and readers without scientific backgrounds.
Author : Professor and Director Clean Energy Research Centre Robert L Evans
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780511290619
One of the most important issues facing humanity today is the prospect of global climate change, brought about primarily by our prolific energy use and heavy dependence on fossil fuels. Fueling Our Future: An Introduction to Sustainable Energy provides a concise overview of current energy demand and supply patterns. It presents a balanced view of how our reliance on fossil fuels can be changed over time so that we have a much more sustainable energy system in the near future. Written in a non-technical and accessible style, the book will appeal to a wide range of readers without scientific backgrounds.
Author : Andrew Heintzman
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780887847240
A collection of essays that examines forms of alternate energy and promising new energy technologies which are cleaner, safer, and more reliable than oil.
Author : Facing the Future Facing the Future
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 1978-10-31
Category :
ISBN : 9780971100572
High school 9-lesson energy unit
Author : Robert L. Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139464299
One of the most important issues facing humanity today is the prospect of global climate change, brought about primarily by our prolific energy use and heavy dependence on fossil fuels. Fueling Our Future: An Introduction to Sustainable Energy provides a concise overview of current energy demand and supply patterns. It presents a balanced view of how our reliance on fossil fuels can be changed over time so that we have a much more sustainable energy system in the near future. Written in a non-technical and accessible style, the book will appeal to a wide range of readers without scientific backgrounds.
Author : Facing the Future Facing the Future
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category :
ISBN : 9780971100565
Author : Joshua Sneideman
Publisher : Nomad Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1619303582
How do we heat our homes, light our rooms, and power our cars? With energy! In 2014, the United States relied on fossil fuels for about 67 percent of its power. But as the fossil fuel supply dwindles and climate change becomes an increasingly urgent issue, individuals, businesses, and governments are expanding their sources of renewable energy, including solar, wind, biofuel, hydro, and geothermal. In Renewable Energy: Discover the Fuel of the Future, readers ages 9 to 12 learn about these renewable energy sources and discover how sunshine can be used to power light bulbs and how the earth's natural heat can be used to warm our houses. Young readers weigh the pros and cons of different energy sources and make their own informed opinions about which resources are the best choices for different uses. Renewable energy industries provide a booming field for future scientists and engineers. This book shows kids these future jobs and gets them excited about contributing to a world run on clean energy. Hands-on projects, essential questions, links to online primary sources, and science-minded prompts to think more about energy, the environment, and the repercussions of our choices make this book a key addition to classrooms and libraries.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 2015-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781940829005
Author : Alice J. Friedemann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3030703355
This book is a reality check of where energy will come from in the future. Today, our economy is utterly dependent on fossil fuels. They are essential to transportation, manufacturing, farming, electricity, and to make fertilizers, cement, steel, roads, cars, and half a million other products. One day, sooner or later, fossil fuels will no longer be abundant and affordable. Inevitably, one day, global oil production will decline. That time may be nearer than we realize. Some experts predict oil shortages as soon as 2022 to 2030. What then are our options for replacing the fossil fuels that turn the great wheel of civilization? Surveying the arsenal of alternatives – wind, solar, hydrogen, geothermal, nuclear, batteries, catenary systems, fusion, methane hydrates, power2gas, wave, tidal power and biomass – this book examines whether they can replace or supplement fossil fuels. The book also looks at substitute energy sources from the standpoint of the energy users. Manufacturing, which uses half of fossil fuels, often requires very high heat, which in many cases electricity can't provide. Industry uses fossil fuels as a feedstock for countless products, and must find substitutes. And, as detailed in the author's previous book, "When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation," ships, locomotives, and heavy-duty trucks are fueled by diesel. What can replace diesel? Taking off the rose-colored glasses, author Alice Friedemann analyzes our options. What alternatives should we deploy right now? Which technologies merit further research and development? Which are mere wishful thinking that, upon careful scrutiny, dematerialize before our eyes? Fossil fuels have allowed billions of us to live like kings. Fueled by oil, coal, and natural gas, we changed the equation constraining the carrying capacity of our planet. As fossil fuels peak and then decline, will we fall back to Earth? Are there viable alternatives?
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309041422
The American love affair with the automobile is powered by gasoline and diesel fuel, both produced from petroleum. But experts are turning more of their attention to alternative sources of liquid transportation fuels, as concerns mount about U.S. dependence on foreign oil, falling domestic oil production, and the environment. This book explores the potential for producing liquid transportation fuels by enhanced oil recovery from existing reservoirs, and processing resources such as coal, oil shale, tar sands, natural gas, and other promising approaches. Fuels to Drive Our Future draws together relevant geological, technical, economic, and environmental factors and recommends specific directions for U.S. research and development efforts on alternative fuel sources. Of special interest is the book's benchmark cost analysis comparing several major alternative fuel production processes. This volume will be of special interest to executives and engineers in the automotive and fuel industries, policymakers, environmental and alternative fuel specialists, energy economists, and researchers.