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Energy for a Warming World: A Plan to Hasten the Demise of Fossil Fuels: Green Energy and Technology

Autor Alan John Sangster
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mai 2012
"Energy for a Warming World" challenges the commonplace notion that the amount of power which mankind can potentially harness from renewable resources is more than large enough to assuage future demand levels.
By examining the renewable issue from an electrical engineering perspective, and exercising due regard for the limited capability of current and future electrical generation and transmission systems, this book attempts to provide more realistic statistics for the levels of power which could be extracted from sustainable resources in the critical time frame of 30 to 40 years. The engineering logic leads inexorably to the importance of taking a global outlook on the switch to renewable power supply and transmission – an outlook which has some surprising and uncomfortable ramifications for mankind.
"Energy for a Warming World" provides a new perspective on renewable resources for academics and researchers in environmental or electrical power engineering, as well as to students in related areas.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781447125358
ISBN-10: 1447125355
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: XII, 178 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:2010
Editura: SPRINGER LONDON
Colecția Springer
Seria Green Energy and Technology

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Research

Cuprins

The Context and Corollaries.- Energy Conversion and Power Transmission.- Limits to Renewability.- Intermittency Buffers.- Known Knowns and the Unknown.

Recenzii

From the reviews:
“Sangster (emer., Electromagnetic Engineering, Heriot-Watt Univ., Scotland) uses nontechnical language and easy-to-follow logic to assess the limitations of different renewable energy resources and to address one of the main unsolved issues of the renewable energy industry: the intermittency of renewables and the storage problem. … concludes with suggestions to policy makers and researchers in the renewable energy field. … The book can serve as a complementary resource for upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level energy courses. … Summing Up: Recommended. … general readers.” (M. Alam, Choice, Vol. 47 (11), August, 2010)

Notă biografică

Alan J. Sangster is an electrical engineer and professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Climate change, environmental impact and declining natural resources are driving scientific research and novel technical solutions. Green Energy and Technology serves as a publishing platform for scientific and technological approaches to "green" - i.e., environmentally friendly and sustainable - technologies. While the main focus lies on energy and power supply, the series also covers green solutions in industrial engineering and engineering design. Green Energy and Technology is a monograph series addressing researchers, advanced students and technical consultants, as well as decision makers in industry and politics. The level presentation ranges from instructional to highly technical.
Energy for a Warming World challenges the commonplace notion that the amount of power which mankind can potentially harness from renewable resources is more than large enough to assuage future demand levels. The presumption of unlimited power from renewables does not take into account the fact that it may not be possible to fully develop this potential, or that the resulting energy may not be available where it is most required. Engineering limitations and deficiencies in production will inevitably undermine the best calculations.
By examining the renewables issue from an electrical engineering perspective, and exercising due regard for the limited capability of current and future electrical generation and transmission systems, this book attempts to provide more realistic statistics for the levels of power which could be extracted from sustainable resources in the critical time frame of 30 to 40 years. The engineering logic leads inexorably to the importance of taking a global outlook on the switch to renewable power supply and transmission – an outlook which has some surprising and uncomfortable ramifications for mankind.
Energy for a Warming World provides a new perspective on renewable resources for academicsand researchers in environmental or electrical power engineering, as well as to students in related areas. Its accessible approach also makes it invaluable to general readers who want a greater understanding of the engineering-based facts behind the global warming debate.

Caracteristici

Provides an engineering-based approach to renewable energy Quantifies the levels of electrical power deliverable from various sources Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras