Future Energy,: Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for our Planet - Hardcover

Trevor Letcher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0080548083 ISBN 13: 9780080548081

Publisher: Elsevier, 2008

Synopsis

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About this title

Synopsis:

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, professionals, and people interested in energy issues in general need to know the relative importance and magnitude of various energy production methods. This book contains contributions by expert scientists and engineers on all of the sources of energy available to us now and in the near future that will enable us to take the energy decisions needed for sustaining development and dealing with climate change. Each type of available energy is put into perspective and all realistic, future options are examined in detail. It presents theory and background, detailing the magnitude of energy involved. It is written by top scientists and engineers in the various fields.

About the Author:

Trevor M Letcher is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a past Director of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics and his research involves the thermodynamics of liquid mixtures and energy from landfill. He was awarded the South African Chemical Institute’s Gold medal in 1999 and in 2000 he was awarded the South African Gold medal by the South African Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published over 250 papers in peer review journals and has edited, co-edited and written eleven books in his research and related fields. His latest books include Unraveling Environmental Disasters (2012), Materials for a Sustainable Future (2012), Waste (2011), Heat Capacities (2010), Climate Change (2009) and Future Energy (2008).

About this edition

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0080548083
• ISBN 13: 9780080548081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Trevor Letcher