Energy Lessons
Published on 31. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
226 pages
978-1-7636472-0-6 (ISBN)
Description
A COURSE IN SPECTACULAR CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR CURIOUS MATURE STUDENTS
Text questions with answers after every chapter.
The book engages with the science and technology of energy supply and consumption, in 41 easy 'lessons', with latest thinking in climate science. Each lesson has discussion with students of the physics of energy, energy technologies, dietary energy, climate theories, infrared radiation, pollution, nuclear energy and other topics from personal experience.
Can Australians tackle carbon dioxide the way they did previous pollution: smog, mercury, DDT, lead, petroleum, chlorofluorocarbons, radioactive fallout? Is the future of energy supply safe in the hands of capitalists, government and corporate leaders, whose interest is in profits and votes?
Images of climate change have enabled spectacular obeisance to renewable energy technology.
This is the tenth novel Martin Knox has published. He has worked in nuclear, oil and coal industries, taught senior science students and written textbooks about energy and climate science. He has distilled learnings from his career in energy and post-modern philosophy, for your instruction and enjoyment. This book has learnings essential to understanding of climate change.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7636472-0-6 (9781763647206)
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Martin Knox grew up on a farm in Somerset England. He graduated as a chemical engineer from Birmingham University and worked in the petroleum industry in Canada. He researched alternative systems of government at Imperial College, London. He emigrated to Australia and was employed in mining development. He became a high school teacher and wrote science textbooks published by the Queensland Department of Education.This book is his seventh novel published. He has been writing fiction novels full-time since 2013: speculative, love, politics, crime, sport, totalitarianism and satires. He is involved in public policy-making, has proposed an underground railway for Brisbane and a new paradigm for climate science. He discusses current issues at U3A and has studied philosophy with students at the University of Queensland.He writes letters, plays the guitar, sings badly and walks by the river. He is divorced with children and grandchildren.