Author : Andrew Heintzman
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 20,43 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 : Robert L. Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521684484
Overview of energy demand for students, policymakers, and readers without scientific backgrounds.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
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ISBN : 1422332829
Author : Robert B. Laughlin
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0465022197
A Nobel laureate imagines the techonolgies that will allow us to harness alternative fuel sources and power society, despite the lack of carbon-based fuels, in an intriguing look at two centuries into the future.
Author : Iain Carson
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780446698665
Two Economist experts reveal that the auto and oil industries are at a pivotal crossroads and have shaped domestic capitalism and the international landscape to create both progress and consequence, in an account that predicts a near-future revolution in energy use, car manufacture, and employment. Reprint.
Author : Trevor Letcher
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2008-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0080564879
Future Energy will allow us to make reasonable, logical and correct decisions on our future energy as a result of two of the most serious problems that the civilized world has to face; the looming shortage of oil (which supplies most of our transport fuel) and the alarming rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past 50 years (resulting from the burning of oil, gas and coal and the loss of forests) that threatens to change the world’s climate through global warming. Future Energy focuses on all the types of energy available to us, taking into account a future involving a reduction in oil and gas production and the rapidly increasing amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. It is unique in the genre of books of similar title in that each chapter has been written by a scientist or engineer who is an expert in his or her field. The book is divided into four sections: Traditional Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Energy Renewable Energy Potentially Important New Types of Energy New Aspects to Future Energy Usage Each chapter highlights the basic theory and implementation, scope, problems and costs associated with a particular type of energy. The traditional fuels are included because they will be with us for decades to come - but, we hope, in a cleaner form. The renewable energy types includes wind power, wave power, tidal energy, two forms of solar energy, bio-mass, hydroelectricity, geothermal and the hydrogen economy. Potentially important new types of energy include: pebble bed nuclear reactors, nuclear fusion, methane hydrates and recent developments in fuel cells and batteries. Written by experts in the key future energy disciplines from around the globe Details of all possible forms of energy that are and will be available globally in the next two decades Puts each type of available energy into perspective with realistic, future options
Author : Joshua Sneideman
Publisher : Nomad Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 19,99 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 : Andrew Heintzman
Publisher :
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2000
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ISBN : 9781459320130
Author : Alex Epstein
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 13,45 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0593420411
The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world’s poorest people. And contrary to what we hear from media “experts” about today’s “renewable revolution” and “climate emergency,” reality has proven Epstein right: Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy around the world, and growing fast—while much-hyped renewables are causing skyrocketing electricity prices and increased blackouts. Fact: Fossil-fueled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low. Fact: While fossil fuels have contributed to the 1 degree of warming in the last 170 years, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development. What does the future hold? In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive “human flourishing framework” to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects—including climate impacts—for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at “climate mastery,” and establishing “energy freedom” policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential. Today’s pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the “anti-impact framework”—a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media’s designated experts to make wildly wrong predictions about fossil fuels, climate, and renewables for the last fifty years. Deeply researched and wide-ranging, this book will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the future of our energy use, our environment, and our climate.
