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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 Over the past twenty years or so, interest in energy, both in the abstract and in humankind's use of it, has been brought to the fore, especially since concerns over climate change have become more widely reported.Energy and climate change discusses what energy is, why it is important, our current energy systems and more sustainable alternatives, and why energy use is having a detrimental effect on the environment. Energy is placed at the front of a discussion of the global environment, technology and civilisation.Problem solving is a central tool and is approached through the use of Fermi-like problems, where the reader is encouraged to explore relevant issues through simple numeric problem solving.* Covers climate change, current energy technologies (e.g oil, gas, etc), renewable/alternative technologies, energy economics and the history of energy use* Contains numerous student exercises and case-studies from around the world* An invaluable text for those students taking courses in the physical sciences, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, geography and related subjects.* Reflects on the international community and its attempts to solve the problem of climate change* Additional teaching resources and weblinks available on the book's website www.wileyeurope.com/college/coley 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 xiii 1 Introduction 1 Part I Energy: Concepts, History and Problems 7 2 Energy 9 2.1 What is energy? 9 2.2 Units 11 2.3 Power 13 2.4 Energy in various disguises 14 2.5 Energy quality and exergy 21 2.6 Student exercises 25 3 The planet's energy balance 27 3.1 The sun 27 3.2 The earth 31 3.3 Comparisons 41 3.4 Student exercises 43 4 A history of humankind's use of energy 45 4.1 Energy and society 46 4.2 Wealth, urbanization and conflict 66 4.3 Our current level of energy use 69 4.4 Student exercises 74 5 Sustainability, climate change and the global environment 77 5.1 Sustainability 77 5.2 Climate change 79 5.3 Other concerns 114 5.4 Debating climate change and answering the sceptics 127 5.5 The atmosphere 134 5.6 Student exercises 139 6 Economics and the environment 143 6.1 Key concepts 143 6.2 Environmental economics 154 6.3 Student exercises 158 7 Combustion, inescapable inefficiencies and the generation of electricity 159 7.1 Combustion 159 7.2 Calorific values 161 7.3 Inescapable inefficiencies 161 7.4 Heat pumps 165 7.5 Double Carnot efficiencies 168 7.6 The generation of electricity from heat 168 7.7 Student exercises 177 Part II Unsustainable Energy Technologies 179 8 Coal 183 8.1 History 184 8.2 Extraction 185 8.3 The combustion of coal 186 8.4 Technologies for use 187 8.5 Example applications 190 8.6 Global resource 193 8.7 Student exercises 196 9 Oil 199 9.1 Extraction 200 9.2 The combustion of oil 204 9.3 Technologies for use 205 9.4 Example application: the motor car 205 9.5 Global resource 208 9.6 Student exercises 210 10 Gas 211 10.1 Extraction 211 10.2 The combustion of gas 214 10.3 Technologies for use 214 1...
