Hitting the wall a vision of a secure energy future /
Hitting the Wall examines the combination of two intractable energy problems of our age: the peaking of global oil production and the overloading of the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. Both emerge from the overconsumption of fossil fuels and solving one problem helps solve the other. The misinform...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
c2009.
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| Series: | Synthesis lectures on energy and the environment: technology, science, and society (Online) ;
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| Online Access: | Abstract with links to full text |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The end of cheap oil
- Global oil peak production, when?
- Alternative schools of thought to alternatives
- Neocon insight
- The market will signal
- Switch to alternatives
- Carbon, too much of a good thing
- Climate change parallels tobacco industry science
- What is wrong with 5 degrees Fahrenheit?
- Carbonless energy options
- Energy efficiency
- Energy efficiency in vehicles
- Energy efficiency in buildings
- Residential and small business buildings
- Large commercial and industrial buildings
- Combining building sector measures
- Energy efficiency in the industrial sector
- Energy efficiency savings
- Electric utility cost of energy savings
- Natural gas cost of energy savings
- Petroleum cost of energy savings
- Overall energy efficiency savings
- Renewable energy options
- Wind power
- Concentrated solar power
- Photovoltaics
- Geothermal
- Biomass power
- Biomass resource
- Biomass electricity
- Carbon sequestration
- Biofuels
- National transmission system
- Summary of carbonless energy options
- Carbon emission reduction
- Cost of carbonless energy options
- Green jobs
- Conventional energy
- Clean coal
- Tons of coal
- How dirty is dirty?
- New coal plant designs
- Integrated gasified combined cycle
- Oxygen-fired pulverized coal combustion
- Sequestration
- Clean coal strategy
- Acceptable nuclear
- How expensive is expensive?
- How risky is risky?
- New reactor designs to the rescue
- How long is long enough?
- Making electricity generation into a nuclear weapon
- The NRC as risk
- What is acceptable?
- Policy for whom?
- Tilted playing field
- Unique difficulties with climate change
- A start
- Energy tribes
- Basis for stable policy
- Cap and trade
- Revenue-neutral carbon dumping fee
- Parallel policies
- Research investment
- National electric transmission grid
- Energy efficiency market failure
- Energy structure blocks renewables
- Conservation: green spirituality or common sense
- What to do with coal plants
- Call to arms.