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Energy, the Environment and Climate Change - Hardcover

E, Hodgson Peter

 
9781848164154: Energy, the Environment and Climate Change
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1848164157 ISBN 13: 9781848164154
Verlag: Imperial College Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

This book is a comprehensive account of all significant energy sources, evaluated according to their capacity, reliability, cost, safety and effects on the environment. Non-renewable sources (for example, coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel) together with renewable sources like wood, hydro, biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, ocean thermal, and tidal; are considered. Also, nuclear radiations and the disposal of nuclear waste and the future of nuclear power are assessed, as well as pollution and acid rain, the greenhouse effects and climate change. Its social, political and moral problems are discussed, with a special mention of the opposition to nuclear power.

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This book is a comprehensive account of all significant energy sources, evaluated according to their capacity, reliability, cost, safety and effects on the environment. Non-renewable sources (for example, coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel) together with renewable sources like wood, hydro, biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, ocean thermal, and tidal; are considered. Also, nuclear radiations and the disposal of nuclear waste and the future of nuclear power are assessed, as well as pollution and acid rain, the greenhouse effects and climate change. Its social, political and moral problems are discussed, with a special mention of the opposition to nuclear power.

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Verlag
Imperial College Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1848164157
ISBN 13 
9781848164154
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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