Energy: What Everyone Needs To Know - Brossura

Goldemberg, Jose

 
9780199812929: Energy: What Everyone Needs To Know
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ISBN 10: 0199812926 ISBN 13: 9780199812929
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012

Sinossi

Without a doubt, the topic of energy--from coal, oil, and nuclear to geothermal, solar and wind--is one of the most pressing across the globe. It is of paramount importance to policy makers, economists, environmentalists, and industry as they consider which technologies to invest in, how to promote use of renewable energy sources, and how to plan for dwindling reserves of non-renewable energy.

In Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know, José Goldemberg, a nuclear physicist who has been hailed by Time magazine as one of the world's top "leaders and visionaries on the environment," takes readers through the basics of the world energy system, its problems, and the technical as well as non-technical solutions to the most pressing energy problems. Addressing the issues in a Q-and-A format, Goldemberg answers such questions as: What are wind, wave, and geothermal energy? What are the problems of nuclear waste disposal? What is acid rain? What is the greenhouse gas effect? What is Carbon Capture and Storage? What are smart grids? What is the Kyoto Protocol? What is "cap and trade"? The book sheds light on the role of population growth in energy consumption, renewable energy resources, the amount of available energy reserves (and when they will run out), geopolitical issues, environmental problems, the frequency of environmental disasters, energy efficiency, new technologies, and solutions to changing consumption patterns. It will be the first place to look for information on the vital topic of energy.

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Informazioni sull?autore

José Goldemberg, a world-renowned expert on energy, is former Rector and Professor at the University of São Paulo and served as Secretary of State for Science and Technology and Secretary of the Environment for Brazil. He is the winner of the 2010 Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize.



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Editore
Oxford University Press, Usa
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0199812926
ISBN 13 
9780199812929
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
192
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9780199812905: Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  019981290X ISBN 13:  9780199812905
Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2012
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