Sustainable Mobility

Renewable Energies for Powering Fuel Cell Vehicles

Raphael Edinger, Sanjay Kaul (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2003
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-56720-484-1 (ISBN)

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With energy consumption rising and with it our dependence on crude oil from politically uncertain regions, and faced with the threat to the environment from polluting emissions, it is becoming ever more evident that fuels from renewable resources are an increasingly attractive option to fossil fuels. Edinger and Kaul, like a growing number of other experts, hold the mobility of populations—transportation, in other words—responsposible for the rise in the rate of greenhouse gas emissions, a condition that can only get worse as less developed regions of the world emerge with their own needs and demands for mobility. What to do? Edinger and Kaul outline in sharp detail the shortcomings of current vehicular technologies and dominant fossil fuels. They present a careful, authoritative examination of innovative technologies that in their opinion have the best chance of combating dangerous reliance on conventional means of power, not only for transportation but other purposes as well. And they focus on special forms of fuel cell drive systems, with their high efficiencies and reduced consumptions, and on other emerging renewable technologies and their innovative, sustainable power sources—such as fuels from biomass and renewable electricity, a particularly promising source of energy for newly growing economies. Wide ranging in coverage, forthright in style, the book is an important review of how things are today, why they could get worse, but perhaps most importantly, what we can do about it.

RAPHAEL EDINGER is an economist at Hohenheim University, Germany. SANJAY KAUL is Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Technology, Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts.

Introduction The Theory of Sustainability Environmental Effects and Public Consequences Energy for Mobility Technology for Sustainable Transportation Mobility for Developing Countries Toward Sustainable Mobility Appendix Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.2003
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	1-56720-484-8 / 1567204848
ISBN-13	978-1-56720-484-1 / 9781567204841
Zustand	Neuware