Energy, the environment and climate change / Peter E. Hodgson.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:London : Imperial College Press ; [2010]الموزع:Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific, [2010]تاريخ حقوق النشر: copyright 2010وصف:xxi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781848164154 (hbk)
- 1848164157 (hbk)
- TJ163.2 .H626 2010
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | TJ163.2 .H626 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011312814 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | TJ163.2 .H626 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011312813 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The energy crisis -- Non-renewable energy sources -- Renewable energy sources -- Nuclear power -- The safety of energy sources -- Pollution of the environment -- Climate change -- Politics, psychology and education -- The needs of the developing countries -- Moral problems and responses.
This book is a comprehensive account of all significant energy sources, evaluated according to their capacity, reliability, cost, safety and effects on the environment. Non-renewable sources (for example, coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel) together with renewable sources like wood, hydro, biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, ocean thermal, and tidal; are considered. Also, nuclear radiations and the disposal of nuclear waste and the future of nuclear power are assessed, as well as pollution and acid rain, the greenhouse effects and climate change. Its social, political and moral problems are discussed, with a special mention of the opposition to nuclear power