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Energy for Sustainability, Second Edition : Foundations for Technology, Planning, and Policy.
Despite a 2016-18 glut in fossil fuel markets and decade-low fuel prices, the global transformation to sustainable energy is happening. Our ongoing energy challenges and solutions are complex and multidimensional, involving science, technology, design, economics, finance, planning, policy, politics,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Island Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Section I: Energy Patterns and Trends; Chapter 1: The Energy Imperative and Patterns of Use; 1.1 Our Energy Dilemma; 1.2 Historical Perspective: Energy and Civilization; 1.3 Global Energy Supply and Consumption; 1.3.1 Explosive Growth of Energy as Developing World Begins to Catch Up; 1.3.2 Continuing Dependency on Oil and Fossil Fuels; 1.4 U.S. Energy Supply and Consumption; 1.4.1 U.S. Energy Independence? Production Up, Consumption Flat, Imports Down.
- 1.4.2 U.S. Energy Cleaner, More Efficient, More Independent Since 2007, but a Long Way to Go1.5 Summary; 1.5.1 Sustainable Energy: Improve Efficiency, Reduce Carbon, Replace Oil; Chapter 2: Energy Sources and Sustainability; 2.1 Criteria for Sustainable Energy; 2.2 Resource Limits of Fossil Fuels; 2.2.1 Peak Oil Debate Revisited: Will the Peak Be Driven by Production or Consumption?; 2.2.2 Natural Gas: Shale Gas Technology Extends Future Supplies but for How Long?; 2.2.3 Coal More Plentiful but Constrained by Environmental Impacts; 2.3 Environmental Limits of Fossil Fuels.
- 2.3.1 Climate Change and Energy2.3.2 Local and Regional Air Pollution; 2.3.3 Fuel Extraction, Transport, and Other Impacts; 2.4 Nuclear Power: Once Great Hope, Now in Decline; 2.5 The Transition to Clean Energy Is Happening: Efficiency and Renewables; 2.5.1 Energy Efficiency Is Making a Difference with More on the Way; 2.5.2 Renewable Energy Growing Fast but Still Small Contribution; 2.6 Summary; Chapter 3: Energy Futures; 3.1 The Complexities of Our Changing Energy System; 3.2 Planning and Visioning the Future; 3.2.1 Projections and Forecasts; 3.2.2 Technology Roadmaps.
- 3.2.3 Needs Assessment and Solution Wedges3.2.4 Developing Scenarios; 3.3 Officialdom's Vision of Our Energy Future: U.S. EIA and IEA Outlooks; 3.3.1 U.S. EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2017: BAU; 3.3.2 U.S. EIA International Energy Outlook; 3.3.3 IEA World Energy Outlook 2016 Central Case; 3.4 Future Energy Scenarios: Different Assumptions, Different Pathways, Different Futures; 3.4.1 IEA's WEO: Visions of Desired Future Conditions; 3.4.2 IPCC/UNFCCC Future Scenarios; 3.5 Possible Energy Futures: Roadmaps to Sustainable Energy; 3.5.1 Amory Lovins's Reinventing Fire.
- 3.5.2 NREL Renewable Futures Study: 80% Renewable U.S. Electricity by 20503.5.3 Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the U.S.; 3.5.4 The 100% Solution Project: Wind, Water, and Sun Can Do It All; 3.6 Show Me the Money! Energy Market Forces and Investment Scenarios; 3.6.1 Energy Investment and Divestment; 3.6.2 Citigroup Forecast: Energy Darwinism II; 3.6.3 BNEF Energy Outlook; 3.7 Summary; Section II: Energy Fundamentals; Chapter 4: Fundamentals of Energy Science; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Basics of Energy Science; 4.2.1 Introduction to the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics.