Download or read book Interrelations of the Fossil Fuels written by John James Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interrelations of the Fossil Fuels written by John James Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interrelations of the Fossil Fuels Classic Reprint written by John James Stevenson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Interrelations of the Fossil Fuels When this study was taken up, the writer planned to present a synopsis of geological observations, then to summarize results oh tained from investigation of chemical relations of the fossil fuels and finally to discuss the problems involved. Illness, beginning in October, 1917, interrupted the study and no attempt to resume it was made until the summer of 1919. But the labor of reducing bulky abstracts to brief digests and of filling gaps in the accumu lated material became increasingly difficult, so that within a few months, it became certain that the work could not be completed by the writer, who, being well advanced in his 8oth year, could not hope that youthful vigor will return. He has prepared a table of contents and an index, which may render the portion, already published, more nearly available for those interested in the study. The War made communication with continental Europe very um certain during the time when preparation of abstracts of publica tions on Paleozoic coals were in course of preparation, so that there was little opportunity to consult Professors Barrois, Dannenberg Petrascheck, v. Ammon and other geologists, who had always been prompt in replying to my too numerous letters of inquiry, which must have tried their patience. My indebtedness to American geolo gists is very great; they have not hesitated to give me access even to unpublished material. It may seem invidious to make special men tion of any, but failure to recognize my obligations to Doctor David White and Professor Willis T. Lee would be inexcusable. I must make grateful acknowledgment of the unvarying and generous courtesy extended by Doctor I. Minis Hays, Secretary of the Amer ican Philosophical Society, and Professor R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., chairman of the publication committee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Interrelations of the Fossil Fuels written by John James Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interrelations of the Fossil Fuels written by John James Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fossil fuels and the environment written by F T (Fred) Last and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Economics And The Environment written by Herman E Daly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an overview of the problem of providing economics with a biophysical foundation, explains the importance of energy in economic valuation and aims to develop novel ways of evaluating the physical constraints of our planet and the services provided by the natural environment.
Download or read book U S Fossil Fuel Resources written by Aiden J. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current discussions of U.S. and global energy supply refer to oil, natural gas and coal using several terms that may be unfamiliar to some. The terms used to describe different types of fossil fuels have technically precise definitions, and misunderstanding or misuse of these terms may lead to errors and confusion in estimating energy available or making comparisons among fuels, regions or nations. This book describes the characteristics of fossil fuels that make it necessary to use precise terminology, summarises the major terms and their meanings, and provides a brief summary of the United States' endowment of fossil fuels and the relationship between the U.S. fossil fuel energy endowment and those of other nations.
Download or read book Activism and the Fossil Fuel Industry written by Andrew Cheon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In less than a decade, activism against the fossil fuel industry has exploded across the globe. While environmentalists used to focus on legislative goals, such as carbon emissions trading or renewable energy policies, today the most prominent activists directly attack the fossil fuel industry. This timely book offers a comprehensive evaluation of different types of activism, the success and impact of campaigns and activities, and suggestions as to ways forward. This book is the first systematic treatment of the anti-fossil fuel movement in the United States. An accessible and readable text, it is an essential reference for scholars, policymakers, activists, and citizens interested in climate change, fossil fuels, and environmental sustainability. The entire book or chapters from it can be used as required or supplementary material in various courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. As the book is not technically challenging but contains a comprehensive review of climate change, fossil fuels, and the literature on environmental activism, it can be used as an accessible introduction to the anti-fossil fuel campaign across disciplines.
Download or read book Assessment of Energy Environment Economy Interrelations written by George E. Halkos and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy consumption and economic growth have been of great interest to researchers and policy-makers. Knowing the actual causal relationship between energy and the economy with respect to environmental degradation has important implications for modeling environmental and growth policies. The eleven chapters included herein aim to help researchers, academicians, and especially decision-makers to understand relevant issues and adopt appropriate methods to tackle and solve relevant environmental problems. Various methods from different disciplines are proposed and applied to various environmental and energy issues.
Download or read book Environmental Science written by Eldon D. Enger and published by McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics. This book was released on 2004 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning, Environmental Science focuses on concepts and presents topics with a practical optimism that clearly defines both problems and possible solutions. The approach and reading level cover the basic concepts without overloading students with too much detail. The central theme throughout the text is interrelatedness. The authors identify major issues and give appropriate examples that illustrate the complex interactions that are characteristic of all environmental problems.
Download or read book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels written by Alex Epstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could everything we know about fossil fuels be wrong? For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same time, by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate safety, life has been getting better and better. How can this be? The explanation, energy expert Alex Epstein argues in The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, is that we usually hear only one side of the story. We’re taught to think only of the negatives of fossil fuels, their risks and side effects, but not their positives—their unique ability to provide cheap, reliable energy for a world of seven billion people. And the moral significance of cheap, reliable energy, Epstein argues, is woefully underrated. Energy is our ability to improve every single aspect of life, whether economic or environmental. If we look at the big picture of fossil fuels compared with the alternatives, the overall impact of using fossil fuels is to make the world a far better place. We are morally obligated to use more fossil fuels for the sake of our economy and our environment. Drawing on original insights and cutting-edge research, Epstein argues that most of what we hear about fossil fuels is a myth. For instance . . . Myth: Fossil fuels are dirty. Truth: The environmental benefits of using fossil fuels far outweigh the risks. Fossil fuels don’t take a naturally clean environment and make it dirty; they take a naturally dirty environment and make it clean. They don’t take a naturally safe climate and make it dangerous; they take a naturally dangerous climate and make it ever safer. Myth: Fossil fuels are unsustainable, so we should strive to use “renewable” solar and wind. Truth: The sun and wind are intermittent, unreliable fuels that always need backup from a reliable source of energy—usually fossil fuels. There are huge amounts of fossil fuels left, and we have plenty of time to find something cheaper. Myth: Fossil fuels are hurting the developing world. Truth: Fossil fuels are the key to improving the quality of life for billions of people in the developing world. If we withhold them, access to clean water plummets, critical medical machines like incubators become impossible to operate, and life expectancy drops significantly. Calls to “get off fossil fuels” are calls to degrade the lives of innocent people who merely want the same opportunities we enjoy in the West. Taking everything into account, including the facts about climate change, Epstein argues that “fossil fuels are easy to misunderstand and demonize, but they are absolutely good to use. And they absolutely need to be championed. . . . Mankind’s use of fossil fuels is supremely virtuous—because human life is the standard of value and because using fossil fuels transforms our environment to make it wonderful for human life.”
Download or read book Fossil Fuels and Pollution written by Julie Kerr Casper and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to fossil fuels, their impact on the environment worldwide, and why controlling them is crucial to Earth's future climate.
Download or read book The Relationship Between Economic Growth and Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption Growth in Net Energy importing Emerging Economies written by Aqdas Afzal and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation investigates the relationship between economic growth and fossil fuel energy consumption through three interrelated chapters—each of which addresses a facet of the relationship. The first chapter argues that mainstream explanations for Industrial Revolution generally assign a pride of place to institutional—secure property rights—and technological innovations—the steam engine. Using interdisciplinary sources, this chapter shows that mainstream explanations are based on narrow empirics. More importantly, this chapter shows that switching from water to fossil fuel-based energy sources during the Industrial Revolution was not based on economic considerations since water was neither scarce nor more expensive than coal. Placing the Glorious Revolution on the same historical continuum as the Industrial Revolution—through their common link with the Enclosure Movement—this chapter argues that the real reasons behind switching to fossil fuels were political-economic. The second chapter argues that the relationship between economic growth and fossil fuel energy consumption has not been thoroughly investigated in the case of emerging economies. Building on the understanding obtained via economic history accounts, this chapter argues that the relationship between economic growth and fossil fuel energy consumption is structurally different in emerging economies. This chapter traces the linkages between economic growth and fossil fuel energy consumption in emerging economies, highlighting the role played by various economic, structural and technological factors. This chapter also shows that emerging economies—net energy importers, to be specific—face unique macroeconomic challenges in the shape of balance-of-payments crises and financial instability that stem from sudden and severe increases in their energy import bills. The third chapter empirically examines the relationship between economic growth and fossil fuel energy consumption growth in a sample of 35 net energy-importing emerging economies. Results show that in the sample of 35 emerging economies, economic growth Granger causes fossil fuel energy consumption growth in the period 1981-2013. Country-level scatter plots also indicate that in the sample of 35 emerging economies, the relationship between real GDP per capita and fossil fuel energy consumption per capita is linear when using K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm—and not curvilinear as postulated by the environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis.
Download or read book The Relationship Between Global Fossil fuel Consumption and the Concentration of Carbondioxide in the Atmosphere written by Gregg Marland and published by . This book was released on 1982* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fossil Future written by Alex Epstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world’s poorest people. And contrary to what we hear from media “experts” about today’s “renewable revolution” and “climate emergency,” reality has proven Epstein right: Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy around the world, and growing fast—while much-hyped renewables are causing skyrocketing electricity prices and increased blackouts. Fact: Fossil-fueled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low. Fact: While fossil fuels have contributed to the 1 degree of warming in the last 170 years, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development. What does the future hold? In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive “human flourishing framework” to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects—including climate impacts—for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at “climate mastery,” and establishing “energy freedom” policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential. Today’s pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the “anti-impact framework”—a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media’s designated experts to make wildly wrong predictions about fossil fuels, climate, and renewables for the last fifty years. Deeply researched and wide-ranging, this book will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the future of our energy use, our environment, and our climate.
