Green Energy Economies: The Search for Clean and Renewable Energy

ISBN-13: 9781138524576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 381 str.

John Byrne

Opis

Green Energy Economies offers insight into the major drivers that are shaping a new future powered by clean energy sources

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Acknowledgments

Part I: Promises and Threats

1. The Promise of a Green Energy Economy
John Byrne, Young-Doo Wang, Job Taminiau, and Leon Mach
2. The (New) Thirty Years' War: Fighting for Global Energy Dominance
Michael T. Klare
3. Listening to the Planet and Building a Sustainable Energy Economy
Daniel M. Kammen

Part II: The Economic Opportunity

4. Job Creation through Green Energy Economy
Robert Wendling and Roger Bezdek
5. The Link between Energy Efficiency, Useful Work, and a Robust Economy
John A. "Skip" Laitner
6. A Green Energy Manufacturing Stimulus Strategy
Jon Rynn

Part III: The Need for New Communities

7. Transitioning to Eco-Cities: Reducing Carbon Emissions while Improving Urban Welfare
Susan Roaf
8. Energized: The Evolution of the Modern Building
Peter C. Syrett
9. Sustainable Transport: Managing Auto Dependence through Travel Time Budgets
Peter Newman and Lee Schipper

Part IV: Changing the Technology Base

10. High Efficiency Photovoltaics Lead to Low Energy Cost
Allen Barnett and Xiaoting Wang
11. The Need for a Storage Revolution for a Green Energy Economy
Bryan Yonemoto, Gregory Hutchings, and Feng Jiao
12. Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Current Status and Potential for Future Deployment
Ajay K. Prasad
13. Nuclear Power: Is It Worth the Risks?
Kathleen M. Saul and John H. Perkins

Part V: Policy Agenda

14. Why a Green Energy Economy Requires a Smart Grid
Miriam Horn and Elizabeth B. Stein
15. Integrated Green Energy Approaches
Peter D. Lund
16. Drivers for Change
Job Taminiau, Young-Doo Wang, and John Byrne

Contributors

Index

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