Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Energy

"The Global Warming Combat Manual" describes the practical measures that readers can take in their daily lives to reduce their carbon footprints, while showing how to link one's personal choices with the big-picture science and the big-scale campaigns to combat global warming on the political, legal, economic, and technological fronts. The emphasis throughout is on practical tips for ways in which people can help combat global warming in their everyday roles as citizens, consumers, homeowners, employees, commuters, tourists, sportsmen, business owners, or farmers. Johansen--assisted by...

The unprecedented financial pressures facing today's electric utilities have encouraged the evolution of conservation as a planning strategy. "Electric Utility Conservation Programs" is the first book to isolate the problems electric utilities encounter and document the solutions they are finding throughout the design, operation, marketing, and evaluation stages of their conservation programs. Including coverage of customer acceptance of their programs and how they can be monitored, this new work is a practical guide for anyone connected with electrical utilities, such as regulatory...

The energy crisis is the background for this insightful volume, which brings together several important strands of energy modeling work into an integrated unit. "The Econometrics of Energy Demand" successfully ties together, within a general policy-modeling context, models which assist in developing policy alternatives, as well as those which incorporate variables over which the decision-maker may exercise control. The process of model development includes: problem indentification; model selection; database construction; implementation and documentation.

This volume focuses on the critical problems facing the electric power industry. Written for industry executives, power system planners, energy policymakers, and students of energy economics, "Electric Power" provides the historical background and developments necessary for an understanding of the present problems of the industry. Chase assesses various solutions proffered to rectify the current situation including recent deregulation initiatives, emphasizing their potential impact on the future reliability of service. Finally, he proposes a new industry initiative, one that will allow the...

Direct coal liquefaction, a synthetic liquid fuel process, is one of the major developmental alternatives for meeting the anticipated fuel demands for the twenty-first century. This work provides a retrospective assessment of past attempts in this century to develop synthetic liquid fuel and applies the findings to produce reliable and pertinent data for the future. Retrospective technology assessment, a recent methodological invention, is used by the authors to analyze the past synthetic liquid fuel programs and the reasons for their failures. Bringing to bear four different...