Book's Contents
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The Book's Contents

  1. Introduction

PART I – Energy: concepts, history and problems

  1. Energy
  2. The planet’s energy balance
  3. A History of mankind’s use of energy
  4. Sustainability,  climate change and the global environment
  5. Economics and the environment
  6. Combustion, inescapable inefficiencies and the generation of electricity

PART II – Unsustainable energy technologies

  1. Coal
  2. Oil
  3. Gas
  4. Non-conventional hydrocarbons
  5. Nuclear power
  6. Hydro-power
  7. Transport and air quality
  8. Figures and philosophy: an analysis of a nation’s energy supply

PART III – Climate Change: Predictions and Policies

  1. Future world energy use and carbon emissions
  2. The impact of a warmer world
  3. Politics in the greenhouse: contracting and converging

PART IV – Alternative Energy Technologies

  1. Energy efficiency
  2. Solar
  3. Photovoltaics
  4. Wind
  5. Wave
  6. Tidal and small scale hydro
  7. Biomass
  8. Geothermal
  9. Fast breeders and fusion
  10. Alternative transport futures and the hydrogen economy
  11. Carbon sequestration and climate engineering
  12. A sustainable, low carbon future?

 

References

 

Appendix 1: Country Specific Energy Data

Appendix 2: Answers to In-Text Problems

Appendix 3: Bibliography and Additional Reading