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Informationen zum Autor David Coley is the author of Energy and Climate Change: Creating a Sustainable Future, published by Wiley. Klappentext For more information on this title, including student exercises, please visit , http://www.people.ex.ac.uk/DAColey/ Energy and Climate Change: Creating a Sustainable Future provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject examining the relationship between energy and our global environment. The book covers the fundamentals of the subject, discussing what energy is, why it is important, as well as the detrimental effect on the environment following our use of energy. Energy is placed at the front of a discussion of geo-systems, living systems, technological development and the global environment, enabling the reader to develop a deeper understanding of magnitudes. Learning is re-enforced, and the relevance of the topic broadened, through the use of several conceptual veins running through the book. One of these is an attempt to demonstrate how systems are related to each other through energy and energy flows. Examples being wind-power, and bio-mass which are really solar power via another route; how the energy used to evaporate sea water must be related to the potential for hydropower; and where a volcano's energy really comes from. With fermi-like problems and student exercises incorporated throughout every chapter, this text provides the perfect companion to the growing number of students taking an interest in the subject. Zusammenfassung For more information on this title, including student exercises, please visit , http://www. people. ex. ac. uk/DAColey/ Energy and Climate Change: Creating a Sustainable Future provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject examining the relationship between energy and our global environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. 1. Introduction. Part I: Energy: concepts, history and problems . 2. Energy. What is energy? Units. Power. Energy in various disguises. Energy quality and exergy. Student exercises. 3. The planet's energy balance. The sun. The earth. Comparisons. Student exercises. 4. A history of humankind's use of energy. Energy and society. Wealth, urbanization and conflict. Our current level of energy use. Student exercises. 5. Sustainability, climate change and the global environment. Sustainability. Climate change. Other concerns. Debating climate change and answering the sceptics. Student exercises. 6. Economics and the environment . Key concepts. Environmental economics. Student exercises. 7. Combustion, inescapable inefficiencies and the generation of electricity. Combustion. Calorific values. Inescapable inefficiencies. Heat pumps. Double Carnot efficiencies. The generation of electricity from heat. Student exercises. Part II - Unsustainable energy technologies. 8. Coal. History. Extraction. The combustion of coal. Technologies for use. Example applications. Global resource. Student exercises. 9. Oil . Extraction. The combustion of oil. Technologies for use. Example application: the motor car. Global resource. Student exercises. 10. Gas. Extraction. The combustion of gas. Technologies for use. Example application: the domestic boiler. Global resource. Student exercises. 11. Non-conventional hydrocarbons. Oil shale. Tar sands. Methane hydrate. Student exercises. 12. Nuclear power. Physical basis. Technologie...
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface.
1. Introduction.
Part I: Energy: concepts, history and problems.
2. Energy.
3. The planet's energy balance.
4. A history of humankind's use of energy.
5. Sustainability, climate change and the global environment.
6. Economics and the environment.
7. Combustion, inescapable inefficiencies and the generation of electricity.
Part II - Unsustainable energy technologies.
8. Coal.
9. Oil.
10. Gas.
11. Non-conventional hydrocarbons.
12. Nuclear power.
13. Hydropower.
14. Transport and air quality.
15. Figures and philosophy: an analysis of a nation's energy supply.
Part III - Climate change: predictions and policies.
16. Future world energy use and carbon emissions.
17. The impact of a warmer world.
18. Politics in the greenhouse: contracting and converging.
Part IV - Sustainable energy technologies
19. Energy efficiency.
20. Solar power.
21. Photovoltaics.
22. Wind power.
23. Wave power.
24. Tidal and small-scale hydropower.
25. Biomass.
26. Geothermal.
27. Fast breeders and fusion.
28. Alternative transport futures and the hydrogen economy.
29. Carbon sequestration and climate engineering.
30. A sustainable, low carbon future?
References.
Appendix 1: National energy data.
Appendix 2: Answers to in-text problems.
Appendix 3: Bibliography and suggested reading.
Appendix 4: Useful data.
Index.
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"At its modest price it mustrepresent the bargain of the year." (Chromatographia, July2010) "As a text book for GCSE levelstudents, this title is worthy of 4 stars." ( Enagri eMagazine, May2010)
