How to Obtain Abundant Clean Energy

Linda McGown (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

262 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4684-6993-6 (ISBN)

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The Three Mile Island accident, the periodic occurrence of long gas lines until sufficient price increases are achieved, our dependence on foreign powers for a large fraction of our energy supply, and continual controversy in our government and concerned public groups all point to the real pre sence of an energy crisis. Even the government has finally publicly acknow ledged the fact that our present fuel sources will run out soon enough to be of concern to us now. This knowledge should raise many questions in the minds of our citizens. When will our sources run out, or at least become too expensive to afford? What could replace them, and which alternatives are best? When we hear about these matters in the news media, we get many contradictory opinions, mainly concerning coal and nuclear energy. Most of us realize that the reintroduction of coal on a massive scale would give rise to considerable pollution difficulties. Many people are also waking to an awareness of the dangers of nuclear reactors. When we turn to scientists for answers, we find that each one seems to advise us that a single path to new energy sources is the best-of course, each scientist tends to advise his own path.

I. The Approaching Energy Disaster.- 1. What Is Energy?.- 2. What Part Does Energy Play in Our Lives?.- 3. How Do We Get Our Energy Right Now?.- 4. Shall We Run Out of Energy in Our Time?.- 5. How Long Does It Take to Develop and Build Up a New Technology?.- II. Alternatives: What Could Replace Our Exhausting Fuels?.- 6. The Dream of Cheap, Clean Atomic Energy.- 7. Fission Reactors-What Can Go Wrong.- 8. Dreaming About the Future: Abundant Clean Energy from Atomic Fusion.- 9. The Most Available Energy Source: The Sun.- 10. Converting Solar Energy to Useful Fuel.- 11. Household Energy from the Sun.- 12. Transport and Industry Run On Electricity and Hydrogen.- 13. Tides, Geothermal Heat, and the Big Winds.- 14. Energy Storage and Transmission.- III. The Hydrogen Economy.- 15. Methods of Mass-Producing Hydrogen.- 16. The Storage of Abundant Clean Energy.- 17. Beyond the Hydrogen Economy: Some Futuristic Ideas.- IV. Extrascientific Considerations.- 18. The Politics of Survival.- 19. Answers.

Zusatzinfo	XIV, 262 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4684-6993-2 / 1468469932
ISBN-13	978-1-4684-6993-6 / 9781468469936
Zustand	Neuware