The Energy Imperative
100 Percent Renewable Now
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2013
200 pages
978-1-136-50224-8 (ISBN)
Description
For decades, Hermann Scheer was one of the world's leading proponents of renewable energy. In this, his last book before his death in 2010, he lays out his vision for a planet 100% powered by renewables and examines the fundamental ethical and economic imperatives for such a shift. And most importantly, he demonstrates why the time for this transition is now. In Scheer's view, talk of bridging technologies such as carbon capture and storage or nuclear energy even (and perhaps especially) by environmentalists is actively damaging the more the pressing agenda of the move to 100% renewable energy. Instead, he offers up examples of the technologies which are working (economically) today and details the policy and market conditions which would allow them to flourish.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,03 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-50224-8 (9781136502248)
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Additional editions
Book
12/2011
1st Edition
Earthscan Ltd
€282.25
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Person
Hermann Scheer (1944-2010) was a Social Democrat member of the German Bundestag (Parliament), President of EUROSOLAR (The European Association for Renewable Energy) and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy.
Content
Introduction; Part 1 Taking stock; Chapter 1 NO ALTERNATIVE TO RENEWABLE ENERGY; Chapter 2 METHODS AND PSYCHOLOGY OF SLOWING DOWN; Chapter 3 SUPER-GRIDS AS PSEUDO-PROGRESSIVE BRAKES; Part 2 People, scope for creativity, and technologies for 100 per cent renewable energy; Chapter 4 SPEEDING UP; Chapter 5 PRODUCTIVE FANTASY; Chapter 6 AGENDA 21 RELOADED; Chapter 7 A VALUE DECISION;
