Drilling Down The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma /

For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Tainter, Joseph A. (Autor), Patzek, Tadeusz W. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Copernicus, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Temas:
Environmental management.
Energy policy.
Energy and state.
Operations research.
System theory.
Sustainability.
Environmental Management.
Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
Operations Research and Decision Theory.
Complex Systems.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1.  Introduction
  • 2.  The Significance of Oil in the Gulf of Mexico
  • 3.  The Energy that Runs the World
  • 4.  Offshore Drilling and Production: A Short History
  • 5.  The Energy-Complexity Spiral
  • 6.  The Benefits and Costs of Complexity
  • 7.  What Happened at the Macondo Well
  • 8.  Why the Gulf Disaster Happened
  • 9.  Our Energy and Complexity Dilemma: Prospects for the Future
  • Appendix A.  Glossary Appendix B.  Offshore Production
  • Appendix C.  Operating an Offshore Platform
  • Index.

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