- Additional Authors
- Roche, Stephen
- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations
- Summary
- "This book provides detailed yet easily understandable information about sustainable energy alternatives in the context of growing public concern about climate change, the impending fuel crisis and environmental degradation. It deals with the history of energy use and the factors that have led to the current interest in energy alternatives and assesses the chance of renewable energy replacing fossil fuels in the future. The authors manage to make a highly complex and often intimidating subject not only accessible but also engaging and entertaining. This book unpacks but never simplifies the science of energy, leavening the more technical passages with anecdotes, metaphors, examples and imagery. By also dealing with the history, politics and economics of energy use, it offers both scientific and non-scientific readers a deeper understanding of the most important issue of our age"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index.
- Source of Description (note)
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 March 2015).
- Contents
- 1. What is energy? -- 2. Where does energy come from? -- 3. How much energy is enough? -- 4. How energy is produced -- 5. Challenging times: the politics and economics of energy -- 6. The price of energy consumption -- 7. Energy from my backyard.
- ISBN
- OCLC
- 904506930
- Author
Pagnoni, Gian Andrea, author.
- Title
The renaissance of renewable energy / Gian Andrea Pagnoni, Stephen Roche.
- Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index.
- Note
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 March 2015).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Roche, Stephen, author.
- Other Form:
Print version: Pagnoni, Gian Andrea. Renaissance of renewable energy 9781107025608 (DLC) 2014026000 (OCoLC)884304969