Energy
A Guidebook
Janet Ramage(Author)
Oxford Paperbacks (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 10. April 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
415 pages
978-0-19-288022-2 (ISBN)
Description
How much energy do you consume each day? Is the answer different if you live in Britain, Switzerland, India or the USA? Where does the energy come from, and where does it all go? Could we live equally well on half as much? Now fully revised and updated, this guide describes the world of energy as we approach the end of the century, and asks some pertinent questions about the next 50 years. If the oil wells run dry and the "dash for gas" exhausts that resource, what are the alternatives? Nuclear Power? Coal? The "biofuels"? And what about the environment? How good is the evidence for global warming? Janet Ramage takes the reader from basic ideas to detailed accounts of energy systems, present and future. She describes the options, but supplies no simple answers.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
82 line drawings, further reading, index
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 120 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-288022-2 (9780192880222)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Part 1 - The Present. Part 2 - Technologies. Part 3 - The Future. Appendices; Further Reading; Index