LEADER 04604nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910462532503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-262-30463-5 010 $a0-262-30556-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275273 035 $a(EBL)3339517 035 $a(OCoLC)892554374 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000757031 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12344777 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757031 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10754657 035 $a(PQKB)10514246 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339517 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339517 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10608196 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275273 100 $a20111202d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSustainable energy$b[electronic resource] $echoosing among options /$fJefferson W. Tester ... [et al.] 205 $a2nd ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cMIT Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (1056 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-262-01747-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Preface to the First Edition""; ""Acknowledgments from the First Edition""; ""Preface to the Second Edition""; ""Acknowledgments for the Second Edition""; ""Chapter 1: Sustainable Energy""; ""Sustainable Energy: The Engine of Sustainable Development""; ""The Energy Portfolio""; ""Defining Energy""; ""Aspects of Energy Production and Consumption""; ""National and Global Patterns of Energy Supply and Utilization""; ""Environmental Effects of Energy ""; ""Confronting the Energy-Prosperity-Environmental Dilemma""; ""Mathematical Representations of Sustainability"" 327 $a""The Rest of This Book""""Problems""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2: Estimation and Evaluation of Energy Resources""; ""Units of Measurement""; ""Comparison of Different Forms of Energy""; ""The Energy Life Cycle""; ""Estimation and Valuation of Fossil Mineral Fuels, Especially Petroleum""; ""Estimation and Valuation of Nuclear Fuel Resources""; ""Estimation and Valuation of Renewable Energy Resources""; ""Lessons for Sustainable Development""; ""Summary and Conclusions""; ""Problems""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3: Technical Performance"" 327 $a""The Relation of Technical Performance to Sustainability""""An Introduction to Methods of Thermodynamic Analysis""; ""The Importance of Rate Processes in Energy Conversion""; ""Chemical Rate Processes""; ""The Physical Transport of Heat""; ""Energy Requirements for Gas Separation Processes""; ""Use and Abuse of Time Scales""; ""Energy Resources and Energy Conversion""; ""Problems""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4: Local, Regional, and Global Environmental Effects of Energy""; ""How Energy Systems Interact with the Environment"" 327 $a""Adverse Environmental Effects over Local and Regional Length Scales""""Global Climate Change""; ""Attribution of Environmental Damage to Energy Utilization""; ""Methods of Environmental Protection""; ""Environmental Benefits of Energy""; ""Implications for Sustainable Energy""; ""Appendix: Lessons from SO2 Emissions Trading""; ""Problems""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5: Project Economic Evaluation""; ""Introduction""; ""Time Value of Money Mechanics""; ""Current- versus Constant-Dollar Comparisons""; ""Simple Payback""; ""Allowing for Uncertainty""; ""Accounting for Externalities"" 327 $a""Energy Accounting""""Modeling beyond the Project Level""; ""Summary""; ""Appendix: Derivation of Relations for Levelized Cost""; ""Problems""; ""References""; ""Websites of Interest""; ""Chapter 6: Energy Systems and Sustainability Metrics""; ""Introduction and Historical Notes""; ""Energy from a Systems Perspective""; ""Systems Analysis Approaches""; ""Measures of Sustainability""; ""Drivers of Societal Change""; ""Some General Principles of Sustainable Development""; ""Problems""; ""References""; ""Websites of Interest""; ""Chapter 7: Energy, Water, and Land Use"" 327 $a""Linkages between Energy, Water, and Land Use"" 606 $aRenewable energy sources 606 $aEnergy consumption$xEnvironmental aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRenewable energy sources. 615 0$aEnergy consumption$xEnvironmental aspects. 676 $a333.79/4 701 $aTester$b Jefferson W$01048079 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462532503321 996 $aSustainable energy$92476086 997 $aUNINA LEADER 04471nam 22006974a 450 001 9910456009703321 005 20210622023252.0 010 $a1-280-59807-7 010 $a9786613627902 010 $a0-231-50766-6 024 7 $a10.7312/lurq12654 035 $a(CKB)111087026932538 035 $a(OCoLC)614998774 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10183418 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000216461 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11202724 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216461 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10198255 035 $a(PQKB)10395302 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909310 035 $a(DE-B1597)459081 035 $a(OCoLC)979776381 035 $a(OCoLC)984642278 035 $a(OCoLC)987933923 035 $a(OCoLC)992453642 035 $a(OCoLC)999360933 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231507660 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909310 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183418 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL362790 035 $a(OCoLC)828303856 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087026932538 100 $a20021010d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe origins of life and the universe$b[electronic resource] /$fPaul F. Lurquin 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (229 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-231-12655-7 311 0 $a0-231-12654-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [201]-203) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Foundations of the Universe --$tChapter 2. Building a Universe --$tChapter 3. Life as It Is Today --$tChapter 4. Prebiotic Earth: First Organic Compounds and First Informational Molecules --$tChapter 5. Life on Its Way --$tChapter 6. Has Life Originated Elsewhere and Will It End? --$tAppendix 1. A Graphic Representation of Special Relativity --$tAppendix 2. More on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle --$tAppendix 3. How Do We Know the Age of the Universe? --$tAppendix 4. Eric Chaisson's View of Cosmic Evolution --$tAppendix 5. Do the Universe and Life Have a Purpose and a Designer? --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tNotable Scientists --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe Origins of Life and the Universe is the culmination of a university science professor's search for understanding and is based on his experiences teaching the fundamental issues of physics, chemistry, and biology in the classroom. What is life? Where did it come from? How can understanding the origins of life on Earth help us understand the origins of the universe, and vice versa? These are questions that have occupied us all. This is a book, then, about the beginning of things-of the universe, matter, stars, and planetary systems, and finally, of life itself-topics of profound interest that are rarely considered together. After surveying prescientific accounts of the origins of life, the book examines the concepts of modern physics and cosmology, in particular the two pillars of modern physics, relativity and quantum theory, and how they can be applied to the Big Bang model of the creation of the universe. The author then considers molecular genetics and DNA, the famed building block of life. In addition to assessing various hypotheses concerning the appearance of the first bacterial cells and their evolution into more complex eukaryotic cells, this section explains how "protocells" may have started a kind of integrated metabolism and how horizontal gene transfer may have speeded up evolution. Finally, the book discusses the possibility that life did not originate on planet Earth but first appeared on other solar planets, or perhaps in other star systems. How would such a possibility affect our understanding of the meaning of life, or of its ultimate fate in the universe? 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R. R. Tolkien's work: the frames, edges, allusions, and borders between story and un-story and the spaces between vast ages and miniscule time periods. The untold tales that are simply implied or referenced in the text are essential to Tolkien's achievement in world-building, Peter Grybauskas argues, and counter the common but largely spurious image of Tolkien as a writer of bloated prose. Instead, A Sense of Tales Untold highlights Tolkien's restraint--his ability to check the pen to great effect. The book begins by identifying some of Tolkien's principal sources of inspiration and his contemporaries, then summarizes theories and practices of the literary impression of depth. The following chapters offer close readings of key untold tales in context, ranging from the shadowy legends at the margins of The Lord of the Rings to the nexus of tales concerning Tu?rin Turambar, the great tragic hero of the Elder Days. In his frequent retellings of the Tu?rin legend, Tolkien found a lifelong playground for experimentation with untold stories. "A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving," wrote Tolkien to his son during the composition of The Lord of the Rings,cutting straight to the heart of the tension between storytelling and world-building that animates his work. From the most straightforward form of an untold tale--an omission--to vast and tangled webs of allusions, Grybauskas highlights this tension. 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