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100 1 _aSangster, Alan J.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEnergy for a Warming World
_h[electronic resource] :
_bA Plan to Hasten the Demise of Fossil Fuels /
_cby Alan J. Sangster.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bSpringer London,
_c2010.
300 _bonline resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aGreen Energy and Technology,
_x1865-3529
505 0 _aThe Context and Corollaries -- Energy Conversion and Power Transmission -- Limits to Renewability -- Intermittency Buffers -- Known Knowns and the Unknown.
520 _aClimate change, environmental impact and declining natural resources are driving scientific research and novel technical solutions. Green Energy and Technology serves as a publishing platform for scientific and technological approaches to "green" - i.e., environmentally friendly and sustainable - technologies. While the main focus lies on energy and power supply, the series also covers green solutions in industrial engineering and engineering design. Green Energy and Technology is a monograph series addressing researchers, advanced students and technical consultants, as well as decision makers in industry and politics. The level presentation ranges from instructional to highly technical. Energy for a Warming World challenges the commonplace notion that the amount of power which mankind can potentially harness from renewable resources is more than large enough to assuage future demand levels. The presumption of unlimited power from renewables does not take into account the fact that it may not be possible to fully develop this potential, or that the resulting energy may not be available where it is most required. Engineering limitations and deficiencies in production will inevitably undermine the best calculations. By examining the renewables issue from an electrical engineering perspective, and exercising due regard for the limited capability of current and future electrical generation and transmission systems, this book attempts to provide more realistic statistics for the levels of power which could be extracted from sustainable resources in the critical time frame of 30 to 40 years. The engineering logic leads inexorably to the importance of taking a global outlook on the switch to renewable power supply and transmission – an outlook which has some surprising and uncomfortable ramifications for mankind. Energy for a Warming World provides a new perspective on renewable resources for academics and researchers in environmental or electrical power engineering, as well as to students in related areas. Its accessible approach also makes it invaluable to general readers who want a greater understanding of the engineering-based facts behind the global warming debate.
650 0 _aEngineering.
650 0 _aBiochemical engineering.
650 0 _aRenewable energy sources.
650 0 _aBiotechnology.
650 1 4 _aEngineering.
650 2 4 _aRenewable and Green Energy.
650 2 4 _aBiochemical Engineering.
650 2 4 _aEnvironmental Engineering/Biotechnology.
650 2 4 _aRenewable and Green Energy.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9781848828339
830 0 _aGreen Energy and Technology,
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-834-6
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950 _aEngineering (Springer-11647)
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