Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture: Desertec and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9783319579658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 110 str.

Michael Duren

Opis

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book focuses on the global cycles of energy, water and carbon, which are not only the essentials of our main energy carriers, the fossil fuels, but are also the building blocks of life.

Spis treści

1.Introduction.- 2.The Nexus of Energy, Carbon and Water.- 3.Energy in Times after the Energy Transition.- 4.Political Implications.- 5.Closing Remarks.

O autorze

Michael Düren (*1957) studied Physics at the RWTH in Aachen, Germany and obtained his PhD in 1987 in the field of particle physics. After a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, he moved to the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, was an interim professor at the University of Bayreuth and, since 2001, he has been a professor of experimental physics at the JLU Giessen. 

Since 1988, he has been a member of the Energy Working Group at the German Physics Society. In 2006, he was the co-founder of the interdisciplinary SEPA Working Group (Solar Energy Partnership Africa-Europe) at the University of Giessen and in 2008 the co-founder of the DESERTEC foundation. In July 2011, he was appointed as coordinator of the DESERTEC Academic Network. His experience as a lecturer in front of medical students – some of whom had a distinct science aversion –has taught him to present physics in an understandable way.

Blurb

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.