Crossing The Energy Divide
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Crossing The Energy Divide
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Author : Robert U. Ayres
language : en
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Release Date : 2009-12-20
Crossing The Energy Divide written by Robert U. Ayres and has been published by Pearson Prentice Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-20 with Science categories.
If we continue our highly inefficient, dangerous energy usage, we’re headed for both economic and environmental catastrophe. However, the hard truth is that alternative fuels can’t fully replace fossil fuels for decades. What’s more, new research indicates that energy inefficiencies are retarding economic growth even more than most experts ever realized. Crossing the Energy Divide is about solving all these problems at once. The authors, two leading experts in energy and environmental economics, show how massive improvements in energy efficiency can bridge the global economy until clean renewables can fully replace fossil fuels. Robert and Edward Ayres demonstrate how we can radically reform the way we manage our existing energy systems to double the amount of “energy service” we get from every drop of fossil fuel we use. These techniques require no scientific breakthroughs: Many companies and institutions are applying them right now, but tens of thousands more could. This book offers a strategic guide for using them to solve the energy crisis once and for all—reducing carbon emissions, achieving true energy security, and reigniting economic growth for decades to come. More energy, without more emissions Recapturing lost energy from today’s fossil fuels There is such a thing as a free lunch Mitigating climate disaster and improving prosperity at the same time The future of electricity Reforming tomorrow’s electrical system: smarter, more productive, and more reliable The implications for cities, transportation, business, and government Making the decisions that prepare you for a high-cost energy future
Crossing The Energy Divide
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Author : Robert U. Ayres
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900
Crossing The Energy Divide written by Robert U. Ayres and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1900 with categories.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. The world is facing two immense and intimately linked challenges: we must move away from fossil fuels, and re.
Climate Zero Hour
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Author : Mathijs Beckers
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018
Climate Zero Hour written by Mathijs Beckers and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
In an age of political expediency and ideological schisms it is best to consider the facts and let reason and science be the judge of what is right and wrong. Climate Zero Hour examines the world-wide energy dilemma from a position of reason and offers insight on how to move ahead on climate change and argues that a larger role for nuclear energy is required.
8 Major Ways To Use Today Technology To Lower Energy Usage And They Are Not Solar Wind And Nuclear
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Author : Robert U. Ayres
language : en
Publisher: Pearson Education
Release Date : 2010-01-12
8 Major Ways To Use Today Technology To Lower Energy Usage And They Are Not Solar Wind And Nuclear written by Robert U. Ayres and has been published by Pearson Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-12 with Education categories.
This Element is an excerpt from Crossing the Energy Divide (ISBN: 9780137015443) by Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres. Available in print and digital formats. Finally: a coherent, integrated energy strategy based on techniques and technologies that have already been proven in the real world! We envision a national energy strategy with eight main components. One (increased energy efficiency of consumer products, including automobiles) has received serious media attention. Two others (increased energy efficiency in buildings and industrial plants, and decentralized electric power) have received moderate attention in industry and academia, but little public discussion. Few know the other five. Yet all eight have proven productive....
Energy
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Author : Robert U. Ayres
language : en
Publisher: Pearson Education
Release Date : 2010-01-12
Energy written by Robert U. Ayres and has been published by Pearson Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-12 with Education categories.
This Element is an excerpt from Crossing the Energy Divide (ISBN: 9780137015443) by Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres. Available in print and digital formats. How to reuse the enormous amounts of energy we throw away--and save a fortune along the way! The Cokenergy plant captures waste heat and uses it to generate electricity as a byproduct. This “recycled” energy is produced without any incremental CO2 emissions or other pollution. The byproduct electricity it produces is as clean as if it were made by solar collectors....
Energy Recycling
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Author : Edward H. Ayres
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Energy Recycling written by Edward H. Ayres and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Energy Future Of Liquid Fuel
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Author : Robert U. Ayres
language : en
Publisher: Pearson Education
Release Date : 2009-12-15
Energy Future Of Liquid Fuel written by Robert U. Ayres and has been published by Pearson Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-15 with Education categories.
This Element is an excerpt from Crossing the Energy Divide (ISBN: 9780137015443) by Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres. Available in print and digital formats. Why biofuels won’t work--except for gigantic agribusinesses and their lobbyists. If the entire U.S. corn crop were converted to ethanol, the aggregate reduction in total fossil fuel (gasoline) energy consumption would be just 2.4%. Considering that we still want our corn flakes, pork chops (corn feeds hogs), and cooking oil, any realistic level of crop consumption for fuels would do virtually nothing to end U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Energy Complexity And Wealth Maximization
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Author : Robert Ayres
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-14
Energy Complexity And Wealth Maximization written by Robert Ayres and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-14 with Science categories.
This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years on energy inputs from a finite storage of fossil fuels. In this book, you will learn about the three key requirements for wealth creation, and how this process acts according to physical laws, and usually after some part of the natural wealth of the planet has been exploited in an episode of "creative destruction." Knowledge and natural capital, particularly energy, will interact to power the human wealth engine in the future as it has in the past. Will it sputter or continue along the path of evolutionary progress that we have come to expect? Can the new immaterial wealth of information and ideas, which makes up the so-called knowledge economy, replace depleted natural wealth? These questions have no simple answers, but this masterful book will help you to understand the grand challenge of our time. Praise for Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization: “... people who run the modern world (politicians, economists and lawyers) have a very poor grasp of how it really works because they do not understand the fundamentals of energy, exergy and entropy ... those decision-makers would greatly benefit from reading this book ...” - Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Manitoba “... A grandiose design; impressive, worth reading and reflecting!” - Prof. Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizäcker, Founder of Wuppertal Institute; Co-President of the Club of Rome, Former Member of the German Bundestag, co-chair of the UN’s Resource Panel “... The book is a must read for concerned citizens and decision makers across the globe.” - RK Pachauri, Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and ex-chair, International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Navigating The Energy Maze
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Author : Roger James Kuhns
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-02-09
Navigating The Energy Maze written by Roger James Kuhns and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-09 with Business & Economics categories.
This book presents essential information for the development of a comprehensive sustainable energy policy. It examines the diverse types of energy, their resource abundance and the material needs to develop and use them, and how communities and cities can better control their own destinies by locally managing energy use and generation. This approach does not suggest the undoing of existing infrastructures and energy providers, but rather a cooperative transition from national-regional energy management to a more local-centered system. The information is the foundation for eight specific legislative initiatives necessary for a national comprehensive sustainable policy that can both facilitate and drive the process of evolution from a carbon-energy economy to a sustainable renewable energy future.
World Energy Crisis
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Author : David E. Newton
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-11-05
World Energy Crisis written by David E. Newton and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-05 with Science categories.
This book provides a historical background for the world's current energy problems, describing how the Industrial Revolution has led us to the impending end of the "Age of Fossil Fuels," and describes possible solutions for averting a global crisis. World Energy Crisis: A Reference Handbook provides a thorough investigation of a controversial topic: our current global energy situation, and what actions should be taken to prevent a crippling fuel-supply catastrophe in the future. The book presents a historical background for current energy problems that discusses the supply and consumption of various forms of energy at different periods of history, covering the evolution of energy use in civilization beginning with human muscle power, the successive eras of mechanized industry and transportation, and our current dependence on fossil fuels. The author explains geopolitical factors regarding energy; details controversial new ways of extending the fossil fuel supply, including the exploitation of tar sands and oil shale as well as new technologies like hydraulic fracturing; and examines the various environmental concerns that are integral to extracting energy from natural resources—and the results of consuming them.