1. Auflage - April 2008
44,90 Euro
2008. 672 Seiten, Softcover
- Lehrbuch -
ISBN-10: 0-470-85313-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-85313-9 - John Wiley & Sons

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Kurzbeschreibung
Energy and the Global Environment provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject examining the relationship between energy and our global environment. Energy is placed at the front of a discussion of geo-systems, living systems, technological development and the global environment, enabling the reader to develop a deeper understanding of magnitudes.

Learning is re-enforced, and the relevance of the topic broadened, through the use of several conceptual veins running through the book. One of these is an attempt to demonstrate how systems are related to each other through energy and energy flows. Examples being wind-power, and bio-mass which are really solar power via another route; how the energy used to evaporate sea water must be related to the potential for hydropower; and where a volcano's energy really comes from.

With fermi-like problems and student exercises incorporated throughout every chapter, this text will provide the perfect companion to the growing number of students taking an interest in the subject.

Aus dem Inhalt
Preface.

1. Introduction.

Part I: Energy: concepts, history and problems.

2. Energy.

3. The planet's energy balance.

4. A history of humankind's use of energy.

5. Sustainability, climate change and the global environment.

6. Economics and the environment.

7. Combustion, inescapable inefficiencies and the generation of electricity.

Part II - Unsustainable energy technologies.

8. Coal.

9. Oil.

10. Gas.

11. Non-conventional hydrocarbons.

12. Nuclear power.

13. Hydropower.

14. Transport and air quality.

15. Figures and philosophy: an analysis of a nation's energy supply.

Part III - Climate change: predictions and policies.

16. Future world energy use and carbon emissions.

17. The impact of a warmer world.

18. Politics in the greenhouse: contracting and converging.

Part IV - Sustainable energy technologies

19. Energy efficiency.

20. Solar power.

21. Photovoltaics.

22. Wind power.

23. Wave power.

24. Tidal and small-scale hydropower.

25. Biomass.

26. Geothermal.

27. Fast breeders and fusion.

28. Alternative transport futures and the hydrogen economy.

29. Carbon sequestration and climate engineering.

30. A sustainable, low carbon future?

References.

Appendix 1: National energy data.

Appendix 2: Answers to in-text problems.

Appendix 3: Bibliography and suggested reading.

Appendix 4: Useful data.

Index.