Energy Demand and Climate Change
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(Sprache: Englisch)
This scientifically sound, yet easily readable book provides the fundamentals necessary to understand today's energy and climate problems and provides possible answers based on current technology such as solar, water and geothermal power. Moreover, it...
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This scientifically sound, yet easily readable book provides the fundamentals necessary to understand today's energy and climate problems and provides possible answers based on current technology such as solar, water and geothermal power. Moreover, it introduces the reader to new concepts that are already or may soon be realized, such as nuclear fusion or a hydrogen-based economy.Aimed at a wide readership ranging from educated laypeople and students to practitioners in engineering and environmental science.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Energy Demand and Climate Change “
AcknowledgementsProloguePART I: QUESTIONSIntroductionAncient Days and Modern TimesIce Ages - Past and FutureGlobal Warming versus Returning GlaciersEarth's Fossil Fuel SupplyNuclear PowerPART II: ANSWERSIntroductionSolar EnergyWind, Waves, and TidesGoing with the Flow: Water, Dams, and HydropowerGeothermal Energy: Energy from the Earth ItselfEfficiency, Conservation, and Hybrid CarsEnergy Storage: Macro to MicroGreen Fuel: Biodiesel, Alcohol, and BiomassPART III: DREAMSIntroductionBreeding Nuclear FuelNuclear Fusion: Engine of the SunPower from the Ocean: Thermal and Salinity GradientsFuel Cells: Hydrogen, Alcohol, and CoalMagnetohydrodynamics and Power PlantsThermionics and the Single Fuel HomeArtificial Photosynthesis and Water SplittingPlanetary Engineering and TerraformingSpace Solar Power: Energy and the Final FrontierPART IV: NIGHTMARESIntroductionAlternative FuturesORBITuary? Disasters That Could Occur
Autoren-Porträt von Franklin H. Cocks
Franklin Hadley Cocks is Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the Pratt School of Engineering of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Professor Cocks has taught courses on energy and the environment for decades and has published over 150 technical papers and more than 20 US patents. He earned all his degrees from MIT and was a Fulbright Fellow at Imperial College, London, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard. At Tyco Laboratories he developed the silicon ribbon crystal growth method now used to produce silicon solar cells on an industrial scale. His foamed-metal payload was flown on the Columbia shuttle in 1991. He was a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory for many years and more recently for the Department of Energy.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Franklin H. Cocks
- 2009, 1. Auflage, XVI, 251 Seiten, 7 farbige Abbildungen, 23 Schwarz-Weiss-Abbildungen, Masse: 17,3 x 23,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley-VCH
- ISBN-10: 3527324461
- ISBN-13: 9783527324460
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Most readers would probably agree that if only politicians could be made to read this book they then would be convinced that much of the current taxation and subsidy policy should be consigned to the dustbin and replaced by at least one of the other carbon-free technologies so elegantly described here ." (Chromatographia, July 2010) "[An] original approach ... .Recommended to graduate students and to science educators at all levels, who have the pressing responsibility to increase awareness of energy and climate problems in younger generations." ( Angewandte Chemie International Edition , 2009)
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"Most readers would probably agree that if only politicians could be made to read this book they then would be convinced that much of the current taxation and subsidy policy should be consigned to the dustbin and replaced by at least one of the other carbon-free technologies so elegantly described here ." (Chromatographia, July 2010)"[An] original approach ... .Recommended to graduate students and to science educators at all levels, who have the pressing responsibility to increase awareness of energy and climate problems in younger generations." ( Angewandte Chemie International Edition , 2009)
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