Generating electricity in a carbon-constrained world /

The electric power sector is what keeps modern economies going, and historically, fossil fuels provided the bulk of the energy need to generate electricity, with coal a dominant player in many parts of the world. Now with growing concerns about global climate change, this historical dependence on fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sioshansi, Fereidoon P. (Fereidoon Perry)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Academic, 2009.
Temas:
Energy industries.
Electric power production > Environmental aspects.
Renewable energy sources.
Energy industries > Case studies.
Electric power production > Environmental aspects > Case studies.
Renewable energy sources > Case studies.
Industries �energ�etiques.
�Electricit�e > Production > Aspect de l'environnement.
�Energies renouvelables.
Industries �energ�etiques > �Etudes de cas.
�Electricit�e > Production > Aspect de l'environnement > �Etudes de cas.
�Energies renouvelables > �Etudes de cas.
Electric power production > Environmental aspects
Energy industries
Renewable energy sources
Case studies
Case studies.
�Etudes de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The problem in context
  • Part One:Short Term Options
  • Chapter 1:Carbon & climate change
  • Chapter 2:Coal
  • Chapter 3:Clean Coal and Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technology
  • Chapter 4: Emission trading
  • Chapter 5:Creating markets for tradable permits in the emerging carbon era
  • Chapter 6:Global Action on Climate Change
  • Chapter 7:The Impossibility of Staunching World CO₂ Emissions
  • Part Two: Renewable Energy Solutions
  • Chapter 8 & 9:Energy efficiency
  • Chapter 10:Nuclear Energy
  • Chapter 11:Wind power
  • Chapter 12: Solar power
  • Chapter 13:Hydro-electric
  • Chapter 14:Geothermal energy
  • Chapter 15:Biofuels
  • Chapter 16: Per capita carbon allowances
  • Part Three: Case studies
  • Chapter 16: The economics, politics and mechanics of meeting California?s carbon mandate
  • Chapter 17:ISOs, regional electricity markets, and greenhouse gas policy
  • Chapter 18:Life after coal?
  • Chapter 19:British electricity industry?s carbon challenge
  • Chapter 20 & 21: China
  • Chapter 22:Beyond Fossil Fuels.

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