Energy, the environment and climate change /
This book is a comprehensive account of all significant energy sources, evaluated according to their capacity, reliability, cost, safety and effects on the environment. Non-renewable sources (for example, coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel) together with renewable sources like wood, hydro, biomass, win...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The energy crisis
- Non-renewable energy sources
- Renewable energy sources
- Nuclear power
- The safety of energy sources
- Pollution of the environment
- Climate change
- Politics, psychology and education
- The needs of the developing countries
- Moral problems and responses.