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Increasing global energy demand requires fact-based evaluations of alternative energy sources. This includes solving questions like how energy is produced, provided, and transported in sustainable ways. Solving future energy demands requires new technologies and knowledge. Decision makers, professio...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Letcher, T. M. (Trevor M.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier, ©2008.
Temas:
Power resources.
Clean energy industries.
Energy-Generating Resources
Ressources énergétiques.
Énergies propres > Industrie.
energy resources.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Power Resources > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Energy.
SCIENCE > Energy.
Recursos energéticos.
Fontes alternativas de energia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • by Sir David King, the senior Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge and a UK Government Senior Scientist
  • 1. Nuclear fission
  • 2. Nuclear pebble bed reactors
  • 3. Oil shales and Tar Sands
  • 4. Methane hydrates
  • 5. Wind
  • 6. Tidal
  • 7. Fuel cells
  • 8. Bio-mass
  • 9. Bio-mass (types including growing crops for burning, landfill gas, etc)
  • 10. Methane and coal to petrol and diesel technology
  • 11. The Hydrogen economy
  • 12. Nuclear fusion
  • 13. Solar, thermal
  • 14. Solar, photovoltaics
  • 15. Hydro-electric power
  • 16. Geothermal possibly
  • 17. Future of gaseous fossil fuels
  • 18. Future of Oil
  • 19. Novel Energy Options
  • 20. Energy Options for sustainable development in developing countries
  • 21. Summing up with a realistic plan for the future for electricity generation
  • 22. Summing up with a realistic plan for transport fuels.

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