The Path to More Sustainable Energy Systems : How do we get there from here?
Language: English
Published by Momentum Press, 2013
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Book condition is near fine. Hard cover. 1st edition. No dust jacket. Book boards clean front and back. Book block clean. Spine intact. Text body clean. Overall an excellent and neat copy. This book sheds some much-needed light on that conundrum. It provides a broad overview of our current energy resources and their limitations. Includes considerations of political and economic constraints, especially the enormous "energy density ' advantage that oil and gases currently provide over alternative energies and how that must always enter into any rational plan for the future. Investigates societal uses of energy and potential for supplying projected future need for both the Development and Developing World's. Discusses energy production methods that contribute to sustainability challenges. Clarifies the urgency behind the sweeping changes in the world's energy needs and available supplies. Discusses the transition viability of nuclear, biomass, solar, wind. Hydrogen, wave, tidal, and geothermal energy sources and offers rational evaluations of the time frames and energy development directions to accomplish sustainable mixes of fossil and renewable energy sources, with an emphasis on context, including energy needs in poor countries. Overall an excellent and neat copy.…
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- Title
- The Path to More Sustainable Energy Systems : How do we get there from here?
- Author
- Ben W. Ebenhack and Daniel M. Martinez
- Publisher
- Momentum Press
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1606502603
- ISBN 13
- 9781606502600
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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About the Author
Daniel M. Martínez is Assistant Research Professor of Environmental Scienceat the University of Southern Maine, where he established the Applied EnergyLab. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester,where he became active with AHEAD. He continues to work side-by-side withBen Ebenhack on a number of projects related to energy use and impacts fromthe perspectives of both the Developed and the Developing Worlds.
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