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Powering the future : a scientist's guide to energy independence
- Title
- Powering the future : a scientist's guide to energy independence / Daniel B. Botkin, with Diana Perez.
- Author
- Botkin, Daniel B.
- Publication
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, ©2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | TJ163.25.U6 B68 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Pérez, Diana.
- Description
- xxi, 330 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In this book, a leading scientist cuts through the controversy, presenting the facts about our energy needs, desires, and supplies and the environmental and human effects of obtaining and using energy. The author objectively assesses the true prospects, limitations, costs, risks, dangers, and tradeoffs associated with every leading and emerging source of energy--From publisher description.
- The future of civilization depends upon the continuous availability of sufficient energy. But we're approaching the practical limits of some of the energy sources we depend upon most. What should be done? Few issues are as controversial. In this book, a leading scientist cuts through the controversy, presenting the facts about our energy needs, desires, and supplies and the environmental and human effects of obtaining and using energy. Dr. Daniel B. Botkin objectively assesses the true prospects, limitations, costs, risks, dangers, and tradeoffs associated with every leading and emerging source of energy, including oil, natural gas, coal, hydroelectric, nuclear, wind, solar, ocean power, and biofuels. Next, Botkin addresses the energy distribution system, outlining how it currently works, identifying its inefficiencies, and reviewing options for improving it. Finally, Botkin turns to solutions, offering a realistic, scientifically and economically viable path to a sustainable, energy-independent future: one that can improve the quality of life for Americans and for people around the world. -- Book Jacket.
- Subject
- Power resources > United States
- Power resources > United States > Forecasting
- Renewable energy sources > United States
- Energy policy > United States
- Energy consumption
- Solar energy
- Fossil fuels
- Nuclear energy
- Solar Energy
- Fossil Fuels
- Nuclear Energy
- solar power
- fossil fuel
- nuclear power
- Energy policy
- Power resources
- Power resources > Forecasting
- Renewable energy sources
- Energieversorgung > USA
- Alternative Energiequelle > USA
- Energikällor > Förenta staterna
- Förnybara energikällor > Förenta staterna
- Energipolitik > Förenta staterna
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Conventional energy sources : Oil -- Natural gas -- Coal -- Water power -- Nuclear power -- New energy sources : Wind power -- Solar power -- Ocean power -- Biofuels -- Designing an energy system : Transporting energy: the grid, hydrogen, batteries, and more -- Transporting things -- Saving energy at home and finding energy at your feet -- Solutions.
- ISBN
- 9780137049769
- 0137049765
- 2900137049768 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2009052805
- OCLC
- ocn462910121
- 462910121
- SCSB-9260525
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library