Electricity, humanity's low-carbon future : safeguarding our ecological niche [E-Book] / Hans B. (Teddy) Püttgen and Yves Bamberger.
Climate change is no longer deniable. Neither is the fact that greenhouse gas emissions due to human activities need to be mitigated. The question is how to rapidly transit to an increasingly low-carbon world while essentially sustaining the quality of life of the fortunate and providing better live...
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Personal Name(s): | Püttgen, Hans B., author |
Bamberger, Yves, author | |
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Singapore :
World Scientific Publishing,
2021
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Physical Description: |
1 online resource (484 pages) |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9789811227301 |
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- About the authors
- With appreciation
- Preamble and reader's guide
- Setting the stage. The lives of four families an energy perspective
- Energia a modern country with a long history
- Energy and emissions where we are
- Energy consumptions and emissions. Housing at home
- Transport and travel daily commutes, travels and transport
- Industry and agriculture producing goods and food
- Industry and services at the office and in public spaces
- How electricity is produced. Introductory remarks
- Hydro energy using water
- Combustion thermal power plants burning fossil fuels
- Nuclear thermal power plants splitting the atom
- Solar energy using the sun
- Wind energy using wind
- Geothermal energy using the earth's heat
- An ever-more ubiquitous electricity. Energy storage
- Electric power systems from power plants to end-users
- Multi-energy systems
- Where we should be heading. Public policy and carbon fee
- Energia's energy mutation principles and application
- To conclude. Four families in 2035
- Conclusion we have the technologies let's all get going
- Annex. Companion document alphabetical order
- Units and reference values
- Website acronyms
- Selected electric energy installations mentioned Index Endorsement.