Energy, the environment and climate change [[electronic resource] /] / Peter E. Hodgson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822798003321
• Autore: Hodgson P. E (Peter Edward)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Imperial College Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-75995-7; 9786612759956; 1-84816-417-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.79
• Soggetti: Power resources - Environmental aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 discuss