Future energy : improved, sustainable and clean options for our planet

Increasing global energy demand requires fact-based evaluations of alternative energy sources. This includes solving questions like how energy is produced, provided, and transported in sustainable ways. Solving future energy demands requires new technologies and knowledge. Decision makers, professio...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Letcher, T. M.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier, ©2008.
Subjects
Power resources.
Clean energy industries.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780080548081
0080548083
9780080564876
0080564879
1281740144
9781281740144
9786611740146
6611740147
0080887066
9780080887067
Physical Description1 online resource (xxii, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • by Sir David King, the senior Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge and a UK Government Senior Scientist
  • 1. Nuclear fission
  • 2. Nuclear pebble bed reactors
  • 3. Oil shales and Tar Sands
  • 4. Methane hydrates
  • 5. Wind
  • 6. Tidal
  • 7. Fuel cells
  • 8. Bio-mass
  • 9. Bio-mass (types including growing crops for burning, landfill gas, etc)
  • 10. Methane and coal to petrol and diesel technology
  • 11. The Hydrogen economy
  • 12. Nuclear fusion
  • 13. Solar, thermal
  • 14. Solar, photovoltaics
  • 15. Hydro-electric power
  • 16. Geothermal possibly
  • 17. Future of gaseous fossil fuels
  • 18. Future of Oil
  • 19. Novel Energy Options
  • 20. Energy Options for sustainable development in developing countries
  • 21. Summing up with a realistic plan for the future for electricity generation
  • 22. Summing up with a realistic plan for transport fuels.

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