Changing Energy

The Transition to a Sustainable Future

John H. Perkins (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

340 Seiten

2017
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-28779-2 (ISBN)

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Changing Energy outlines how humanity came to its current energy economy through three previous energy transitions and now stands poised for a necessary fourth one. Despite the immense benefits conferred by a global energy economy based primarily on coal, oil, gas, and uranium, societies must now rebuild their energy economies to rely as much as possible on renewable energy used efficiently. This imperative to change comes from the risks of climate change plus the dangers of geopolitical tensions, health and environmental effects, and the long-term prospects for ever depleting sources of today's energy sources. Changing Energy argues that sustainability of the benefits from energy services will come from investments made in the technologies of the fourth transition. Perkins envisions a viable post-fossil fuel energy economy and outlines the barriers that must be resolved to reach it.

John H. Perkins is Professor Emeritus at The Evergreen State College, where he taught environmental and energy studies between 1980 and 2009 plus directed the Graduate Program on the Environment between 1999 and 2005. He is a Senior Fellow with the National Council for Science and the Environment as well as Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the author of Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War and Insects, Experts, and the Insecticide Crisis: The Quest for New Pest Management Strategies.

Preface
Prologue

1. The Invisible Keystone of the Modern World
2. Energy and Energy Services
3. Energy and the Modern State
4. Primary Fuels and Energy Efficiency
5. Energy Systems
6. Climate Change
7. Geopolitical Tensions, Health and Environmental Effects, and Depletion
8. The Fourth Energy Transition: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
9. Energy Sources: Criteria for Acceptability
10. Strengths and Weaknesses of Primary Energy Sources
11. Barriers and Challenges

Epilogue
Appendix 1. Units for Measuring Energy and Power
Appendix 2. Production of Heat by Combustion and Fission
Notes
Glossary
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Zusatzinfo	39 b-w photos and 12 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-520-28779-7 / 0520287797
ISBN-13	978-0-520-28779-2 / 9780520287792
Zustand	Neuware