Engineering Sustainable Life on Earth: Alleviating Adverse Climate Change Through Better Design
Autor John Coplinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2021
The ultimate solution to climate change lies not just in doing and consuming less but does instead entirely revolve around our ability to "out innovate" the problem. John F. Coplin, CBE, FREng, FCGI, has had a long and distinguished career in engineering and has operated and advised at all levels from heads of state, company chairs, engineering directors, government advisory boards, and on the shop floor. He is perfectly placed to take a wide-ranging approach, applying modern design and innovative engineering at a systemic level in order to provide novel approaches that will have far-reaching impact on reversing humankind’s impact on this planet. His projections and solutions are based on facts, reasonable calculations, and science learnt from nature. Unafraid to challenge current thinking, John looks at solutions across multiple sectors, including aviation, cars and domestic local transport, clean and renewable energy, food and agriculture, and housing and communities, and describes the particular potential of hydrogen as fuel.
The book is written in a language for all. It is small enough to be used is a practical guide to where some of the most useful improvements are to be found and as a way to start important conversations.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032044965
ISBN-10: 1032044969
Pagini: 198
Ilustrații: 1 Tables, black and white; 22 Line drawings, black and white; 18 Halftones, black and white; 40 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032044969
Pagini: 198
Ilustrații: 1 Tables, black and white; 22 Line drawings, black and white; 18 Halftones, black and white; 40 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & DevelopmentCuprins
Foreword Part I: The Big Reset 1. Engineering Extinction? 2. Why Design Engineering? 3. How Did We Get Here? The Legacy of the Industrial Revolution 4. The Technology Revolution Part II: Clean Energy 5. Energy Storage Systems 6. Renewables 7. (Decentralised) Nuclear Power 8. Building a Clean Grid Part III: Transport
9. Cars 10. Commercial Aviation Part IV: Food and Agriculture 11. Food 12. Farming and Agriculture Part V: Homes and Housing 13. Urbanisation vs Dispersed Communities Part VI: Unheeded Warnings and Critical Actions 14. Unheeded Warnings 15. Critical Actions Acknowledgements
9. Cars 10. Commercial Aviation Part IV: Food and Agriculture 11. Food 12. Farming and Agriculture Part V: Homes and Housing 13. Urbanisation vs Dispersed Communities Part VI: Unheeded Warnings and Critical Actions 14. Unheeded Warnings 15. Critical Actions Acknowledgements
Notă biografică
John F. Coplin, aeronautical engineer, chief designer of Rolls-Royce’s RB211 aeroengine. During the 1990s, he was UK science and technology advisor to the Indonesian President. Previously a visiting professor on engineering design to Oxford University and Imperial College and Associate Fellow in Design Engineering at the University of Warwick.
Recenzii
"John Coplin’s pedigree is perfect for this timely, important book: a masterly analysis of the climate change problems the world must address; a series of powerful arguments for a convincing array of solutions based on a design engineering approach: a textbook for post-COP 26 work by the UK and globally. A well-grounded, successful and renowned aeronautical engineer and polymath, John Coplin employs his wider scientific skills, international experience, deep and broad thinking, the vision all these elements inspire, and clear logic to argue, explain and quantify ways forward to limit significantly the adverse effects of climate change, and provide better and sustainable ways of living on this planet."
Sir Roger Carrick, former British High Commissioner and Ambassador
Sir Roger Carrick, former British High Commissioner and Ambassador
Descriere
Climate scientists have clarified the main causes of climate change, and the tight timescale within which humans must change behaviour. This book uncovers many of the powerful actions and use them effectively to achieve sustainable human life, of improved quality, in a way that is affordable out of earned income for all humans.