Sweet Kicking the Carbon Habit

Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-231-51037-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Sweet, William

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Verfahrenstechnik, Chemieingenieurwesen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. The Case for Sharply Cutting U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Part I. Coal: A Faustian Bargain with Payments Coming Due
2. Basis of It All: Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvanian
3. The Air We Breathe: The Human Costs of Coal Combustion
4. From Outer Space: Asia's Brown Cloud, and More
Part II. Climate: The Lockstep Relationship Between Carbon Dioxide and Temperature
5. The Drillers
6. The Modelers
7. The Synthesizers
Part III. Choices: The Low-Carbon and Zero-Carbon Technologies We Can Deploy Right Now
8. Breaking the Carbon Habit
9. Going All Out for Renewables, Conservation, and Green Design
10. Natural Gas, Gasoline, and the Vision of a Hydrogen Economy
11. A Second Look at Nuclear Energy
Conclusion: How to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Now, Using Today's Technology
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Leseproben

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Über Autor(innen)

William Sweet is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Princeton University. He is senior news editor at IEEE Spectrum, the flagship publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. His work has appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and MIT's Technology Review.