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Energy, the Environment and Climate Change by Peter Edward Hodgson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Energy, the Environment and Climate Change about?
This book is a comprehensive account of all significant energy sources, evaluated according to their capacity, reliability, cost, safety and effects on the environment. Non-renewable sources (for example, coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel) together with renewable sources like wood, hydro, biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, ocean thermal, and tidal; are considered. Also, nuclear radiations and the disposal of nuclear waste and the future of nuclear power are assessed, as well as pollution and acid rain, the greenhouse effects and climate change. Its social, political and moral problems are discussed, with a special mention of the opposition to nuclear power.
Who reads Energy, the Environment and Climate Change?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter Edward Hodgson
- Publisher
- Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781908978356
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Science, Economics
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