Introduction to Energy and Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9783527345403 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 608 str.

Joseph A. Pratt

Spis treści

Introductory Concepts 1. Brief History of Our Relationship with Energy 2. Defining and Quantifying Energy 3. Flows and Conversions of Energy and Matter 4. Defining and Quantifying Sustainability 5. Laws of Thermodynamics Energy Production Today 6. Fossil Fuels and Pollution 7. Coal 8. Oil 9. Natural Gas 10. Unconventional Sources of Fossil Fuels 11. Nuclear Energy 12. Hydroelectric Power 13. Production and Storage of Electricity Energy Consumption Today 14. Energy Use in Transportation 15. Agricultural Energy Use 16. Energy Use in Buildings: Residential and Commercial Consumption 17. Industrial Energy Consumption Energy Transitions 18. Sustainability Transition: Why, When, How Long? 19. Climate Change Energy Production Tomorrow 20. Biomass as a Source of Energy 21. Wind Energy 22. Solar Energy 23. Hydrogen as a Fuel 24. Geothermal Energy Energy Consumption Tomorrow 25. Changes in Global Energy Consumption Patterns 26. Energy Conservation 27. Future of Cars 28. Energy Conservation in Architectural Design and Urban Planning

O autorze

Ognjen S. Miljanic, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston. His research focuses on the use of porous materials to capture greenhouse gases. He has been teaching energy and sustainability to diverse student audience for more than 10 years.Joseph Pratt earned a PhD in economic history from Johns Hopkins University (1976). He taught at UC Berkeley, the Harvard Business School (as a visitor), and Texas A&M University before accepting a chaired position in history and business at the University of Houston, where he retired as an emeritus professor in 2016. With Ognjen S. Miljanic, he helped create a minor in Energy and Sustainability at the University of Houston.