Keywords:
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
The author of Physics for Future Presidents returns to educate all of us on the most crucial conundrum facing the nation: energy.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780393083941
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=7170144
DDC:
333.79
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- I ENERGY CATASTROPHES -- 1 Fukushima -- Meltdown -- Radioactive Release -- Radioactivity and Death -- The Denver Dose -- Bottom Line: What Should We Do? -- 2 The Gulf Oil Spill -- The Deepwater Horizon Accident -- Damage -- Iatrogenic Disease -- 3 Global Warming and Climate Change -- A Brief Introduction to Global Warming -- Tipping Points -- Local Variability -- Hurricanes -- Tornadoes -- Polar Warming -- The Hockey Stick -- Sea Level Rise -- Assuming It Is a Threat-Can We Stop Global Warming?14 -- Geoengineering -- The Global-Warming Controversy -- II THE ENERGY LANDSCAPE -- Recycled Energy -- Energy Security -- 4 The Natural-Gas Windfall -- Fracking and Horizontal Drilling -- Shale Gas Reserves -- Ocean Methane -- 5 Liquid Energy Security -- Hubbert's Peak -- 6 Shale Oil -- 7 Energy Productivity -- Invest for a 17.8% Annual Return, Tax-Free, with No Risk -- Invest for a 209% Annual Return, Tax-Free, with No Risk -- Government Energy Productivity Policy -- Other Great Investments -- Feel-Good Measures That Don't Necessarily Work -- Power Blackouts -- The Smart Grid -- III ALTERNATIVE ENERGY -- 8 Solar Surge -- The Physics of Sunlight -- Solar Thermal -- Photovoltaic Cells -- Solar-Cell Summary -- 9 Wind -- 10 Energy Storage -- Batteries -- Bottled Wind: Compressed-Air Energy Storage (CAES) -- Flywheels -- Supercapacitors -- Hydrogen and Fuel Cells -- Natural Gas -- 11 The Coming Explosion of Nuclear Power -- Blowing Up -- Cost -- Small Modular Nuclear Reactors -- Running Out of Uranium? -- Fukushima Deaths -- Nuclear Waste Storage -- The Coming Nuclear Explosion -- 12 Fusion -- Tokamak -- NIF, the National Ignition Facility -- Beam Fusion -- Muon Fusion -- Cold Fusion -- 13 Biofuels -- Ethanol from Corn -- Biodegradable Is Bad? -- Pseudo-biofuels.
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Ethanol from Cellulose -- Ethanol from Algae -- 14 Synfuel and High-Tech Fossil Fuels -- Synfuel -- Coal Bed Methane -- Coal Bed Gasification -- Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) -- Oil Sands -- 15 Alternative Alternatives: Hydrogen, Geothermal, Tidal, and Wave Power -- Hydrogen -- Geothermal -- Tidal Power -- Wave Power -- 16 Electric Automobiles -- The Electric Auto Fad -- Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles -- Lead-Acid Batteries -- Recharge Time -- Effective Miles per Gallon -- Ordinary Hybrids -- Battery Challenges -- 17 Natural-Gas Automobiles -- 18 Fuel Cells -- 19 Clean Coal -- IV WHAT IS ENERGY? -- The Properties of Energy -- The Meaning of Energy -- The Beauty of Energy -- V ADVICE FOR FUTURE PRESIDENTS -- Energy Technology Policy -- Key Considerations -- Beware -- Your Legacy -- Notes -- Credits -- Index -- Also by Richard A. Muller -- Copyright.
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