Energy and the Missing Resource: A View from the Laboratory - Hardcover

Dostrovsky, I.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521265924 ISBN 13: 9780521265928

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Synopsis

This 1989 book provides a nontechnical analysis of present and future energy resources and their potential development to meet future demand. The prevailing impression in popular discussion of future energy supply is that a crisis will occur, sooner or later, owing to the exhaustion of present resources. This informative and thought-provoking book demonstrates that sufficient resources are available to meet all energy needs for the foreseeable future. However, this does not remove the threat of an energy-supply crisis. What is lacking - the missing resource - is the knowledge of how to use these resources in a practical and environmentally acceptable manner. The author argues that long-term technical development will be necessary to ensure future energy sufficiency and that international cooperation on technical research, environmental impact, and energy use is needed now to prevent a succession of energy crises in the future. All those involved with energy in a technical, business, or governmental policy capacity will find book essential and rewarding reading.

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"An excellent detailed review of the history and prognosis of world energy sources and demands...a superb primer for any serious student of world energy problems." Choice

Book Description

This 1989 book provides a nontechnical analysis of present and future energy resources and their potential development to meet future demand. All those involved with energy in a technical, business, or governmental policy capacity will find book essential and rewarding reading.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521265924
• ISBN 13: 9780521265928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200