Energy Demand and Climate Change: Issues and Resolutions - Softcover

Cocks, Franklin H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3527324461 ISBN 13: 9783527324460

Verlag: Wiley-VCH, 2009

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This scientifically sound, yet easily readable book provides the fundamentals necessary to understand today's energy and climate problems and provides possible answers based on current technology such as solar, water and geothermal power. Moreover, it introduces the reader to new concepts that are already or may soon be realized, such as nuclear fusion or a hydrogen-based economy.
Aimed at a wide readership ranging from educated laypeople and students to practitioners in engineering and environmental science.

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Franklin Hadley Cocks is Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the Pratt School of Engineering of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Professor Cocks has taught courses on energy and the environment for decades and has published over 150 technical papers and more than 20 US patents. He earned all his degrees from MIT and was a Fulbright Fellow at Imperial College, London, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard. At Tyco Laboratories he developed the silicon ribbon crystal growth method now used to produce silicon solar cells on an industrial scale. His foamed-metal payload was flown on the Columbia shuttle in 1991. He was a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory for many years and more recently for the Department of Energy.

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This scientifically sound yet easily readable book provides the science and background necessary to understand today's energy and climate problems, and offers possible answers using both current and future technology. The history of energy and climate issues as well as individual energy technologies provides insight as to what has happened to earth's climate in the past, what may happen in the future, and what can be done about it. Questions, answers, dreams, and nightmares are all considered in separate sections.

The photograph below shows the author paying homage at the gravesite of Louis Agassiz, the discoverer of ice ages (see chapter 2).

The photograph below shows the author paying homage at the gravesite of Louis Agassiz, the discoverer of ice ages (see chapter 2).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley-VCH
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3527324461
• ISBN 13: 9783527324460
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 267
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Wiley-VCH GmbH; product_safety@wiley.com; ; Boschstrasse 12; Weinheim; 69469; Deutschland