Energy and Climate Change

Our New Future
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-21927-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1330 g

Energy and Climate Change: Our New Future provides an understanding of future energy, energy transition, and climate change. Sections cover key concepts, enabling readers to better understand root causes and future implications while also assessing the current role and future outlook for fossil fuel-based energy sources. Coverage of the very latest cleaner energies gives readers tactics to solve the problems of global warming and climate change. The book also explores how various renewable energy options are affected by climate change, such as strong winds impacting wind turbines, flooding of renewable energy infrastructure, droughts affecting hydroelectric schemes, rising temperatures affecting solar panels, and more. This is an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in energy transition, renewable energy, climate change, and sustainability, including researchers, graduate students, scientists, engineers, practitioners, consultants, industry leaders, urban planners, and government personnel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Letcher, Trevor

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Energietechnik & Elektrotechnik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Alternative und erneuerbare Energien
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nachhaltigkeit, Grüne Technologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A. INTRODUCTION

1. Evidence and Causes of Climate Change
2. The Need to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Production and Boost Renewable Energy
3. Evidence of Climate Change (Intertidal Indicators)
4. Evidence of Climate Change (Bird Ecology)
5. Global Surface Temperatures

B. FOSSIL FUELS

6. Oil and Natural Gas, Present and in the Future
7. Coal and Climate Change

C. RENEWABLE ENERGY and STORING ENERGY
8. Wind Energy: Status and Outlook
9. Solar Photovoltaics: Status and Outlook
10. Concentrating Solar Technologies: Status and Outlook
11. An Uncertain Future for Global Hydropower
12. Geothermal Energy: Status and Outlook
13. Marine Energy: Status and Perspectives
14. Tidal Energy: Status and Perspectives
15. Storing Energy: Options to Balance Renewable Energy and Strengthen the Grid
16. Hydrogen Production and Hydrogen as an Energy Vector
17. Solid Air Hydrogen Liquefaction, the Missing Link of the Hydrogen Economy

D. NUCLEAR ENERGY
18. Nuclear Fission: Safety, Impact on the Environment and Potential in 2030 and 2050
19. Small Modular Reactors: Economic, Safety and Environmental Aspects

E. CARBON CAPTURE AND POTENTIAL NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES

20. Carbon Capture and Sequestration: A critical view of its future
21. Nuclear Fusion: Safety, Impact on the Environment and Potential in 2030 and 2050
22. Space Based Solar Energy

F. FINAL WORD

23. The Transition to 100 Percent Clean Renewable Energy

Über Autor(innen)

Letcher, Trevor
Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.