Metals, energy and sustainability : the story of Doctor Copper and King Coal

• Main Authors: Golding, Barry (Author), Golding, Suzanne D. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Copper.; Copper > Environmental aspects.; Coal.; Coal > Environmental aspects.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319511757; 9783319511733
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book explains how and where copper and fossil fuels were formed and the likely future for the extraction of copper and coal. The colourful chronology of our efforts to extract metals from minerals and energy from fossil fuels is presented from earliest times until the present day. The difficult...