Green Energy Futures: A Big Change for the Good - David Elliott

Green Energy Futures: A Big Change for the Good

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Buch | Hardcover
120 Seiten
2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-58442-7 (ISBN)
53,45 inkl. MwSt
This book engages in that debate, exploring the implications of shifting to greener, cleaner energy sources. This book offers an overview of the technical, economic and environmental issues to help scholars, professionals and policy makers involved in discussing those options.
What will replace fossil fuel? Is there a way forward using renewable energy sources while avoiding nuclear power?

This book argues that nuclear is unlikely to have much of a role in future, and shows that the pro- and anti-nuclear debate has absorbed too much time and energy over the years. This has been to the detriment of a more relevant, interesting and increasingly urgent debate over what sort of renewable/efficiency mix we need. This book engages in that debate, exploring the implications of shifting to greener, cleaner energy sources. Importantly, David Elliott argues there is no one green future. There is a range of possible options of various types and scales: we need to choose amongst them. This book offers an overview of the technical, economic and environmental issues to help scholars, professionals and policy makers involved in discussing those options.

David Elliott is Emeritus Professor of Technology Policy, Co-Director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at The Open University as well as editor of its journal Renew. He has been involved with the production of a range of OU courses in Design and Innovation, with an emphasis on how the design and innovation process can be steered towards the development of socially and environmentally appropriate technologies. His main research interests relate to the development of sustainable energy technologies, and in particular renewable energy based systems.

1. Introduction: What Are the Options? 2. Environmental Issues: Health, Safety and Social Impacts 3. Economic Issues: Green Energy Costs and Support Options 4. Integration Issues: Dealing with Intermittency 5. Policy Issues: How to Change the World 6. Sustainable Futures: What Kind of Mix? 7. Afterword

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.10.2015
Zusatzinfo 1 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 120 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 1-137-58442-4 / 1137584424
ISBN-13 978-1-137-58442-7 / 9781137584427
Zustand Neuware
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