Download or read book Energy Strategy written by Amory Bloch Lovins and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Path to More Sustainable Energy Systems written by Ben W. Ebenhack and published by Momentum Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy engineers, technology managers, and political leaders all need a solid, holistic understanding of where the world finds its energy--the limits of that energy--and what we will need to do in the future if we are to have a cleaner and environmentally sustainable world, all without sacrificing our modern technological-based civilization. This book will shed some much needed light on that conundrum. It * Provides a broad overview of our current energy sources, their uses and limitations and political and economic constraints * Clarifies the urgency behind the sweeping changes in the world's energy needs and available supplies * Offers a rational paradigm for how we can go about selecting the optimal mix of fossil, renewable and sustainable energy sources and how we can then aggressively move toward those more sustainable sources Drawing from a combined 40 years of teaching about energy and its applications, the authors offer a broad, balanced analysis of our current energy circumstances and how we can intelligently transition from our reliance on fossil fuels to more sustainable and renewable energy sources--solar, wind, nuclear, and bio-mass. With their grounding in the traditional petroleum industries, the authors embed their arguments for cleaner and more sustainable energy sources in the hard realities of energy economics. Those hard realities include the enormous "energy density" advantage that oil and gas currently provide over other alternative energies and how that must always enter into any rationale economic plan for future energy growth.
Download or read book Pathways to a Smarter Power System written by Ozan Erdinc and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathways to a Smarter Power System studies different concepts within smart grids that are used in both industry and system regulators (e.g. distribution and transmission system operators) and research. This book covers these concepts from multiple perspectives and in multiple contexts, presenting detailed technical information on renewable energy systems, distributed generation and energy storage units, methods to activate the demand side of power systems, market structure needs, and advanced planning concepts and new operational requirements, specifically for power system protection, technological evolvements, and requirements regarding technology in ICT, power electronics and control areas. This book provides energy researchers and engineers with an indispensable guide on how to apply wider perspectives to the different technological and conceptual requirements of a smarter power system. - Includes concepts regarding conceptual and technological needs and investment planning suggestions for smart grid enabling strategies - Contains new electric power system operational concepts required by industry, along with R&D studies addressing new solutions to potential operational problems - Covers pathways to smarter power systems from successful existing examples to expected short, medium and long-term possibilities
Download or read book The Path of Energy written by Synthia Andrews and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher’s Note: A new edition has replaced this book under the title Subtle Energy Work, ISBN 9781637480083. A unique guide to principles, practices, and exercises that help you access your energy awareness and live a more empowered life. Learning to consciously interact in the domain of subtle energy is the next step in personal and planetary transformation. The Path of Energy is a unique handbook of principles, practices and exercises to help you access your energy awareness and live a more empowered life. In the book are 13 meditations that activate patterns of light within your energy body to awaken specific abilities and levels of awareness. Each meditation includes benefits and purpose, step-by-step written directions augmented with line drawings, and an interpretive illustration of the completed energy pattern. Subtle energy is more than life force; it is the substance of reality and the vehicle of consciousness. Your body is wired to navigate this domain. You are equipped with everything needed to engage the world of energy and creatively change your life. You simply need to remember how. The Path of Energy is a guide to living with expanded consciousness. Included are techniques that build energy awareness and use this skill to deepen your spiritual path, intimacy in relationships, align with earth energy, clear space, create protection, manifest goals, facilitate healing, and more.
Download or read book Hazard Analysis Techniques for System Safety written by Clifton A. Ericson, II and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains in detail how to perform the most commonly used hazard analysis techniques with numerous examples of practical applications Includes new chapters on Concepts of Hazard Recognition, Environmental Hazard Analysis, Process Hazard Analysis, Test Hazard Analysis, and Job Hazard Analysis Updated text covers introduction, theory, and detailed description of many different hazard analysis techniques and explains in detail how to perform them as well as when and why to use each technique Describes the components of a hazard and how to recognize them during an analysis Contains detailed examples that apply the methodology to everyday problems
Download or read book Energy Options on the Path Toward a More Sustainable Transportation Sector written by Sven Beiker and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transportation sector has an enormous demand for resources and energy, is a major contributor of emissions (i.e., greenhouse gases in particular), and it is defined largely by the kind of energy it uses—be it electric cars, biofuel trucks, or hydrogen aircraft. Given the size of this sector, it has a crucial role in combatting climate change and securing sustainability in its three forms: environmental, societal, and economic. Energy Options on the Path Toward a More Sustainable Transportation Sector examines the many questions concerning alternative energy options for mobility: Is hydrogen the fuel of the future? Is there is enough electricity to power a fully electric transportation sector? What happens when millions of electric vehicle batteries need to be decommissioned? Which regulatory measures are effective and appropriate for moving the sector in the right direction? What is the “right” direction? Click here to access the full SAE EDGETM Research Report portfolio. https://doi.org/10.4271/EPR2022019
Download or read book Revolutionary Power written by Shalanda Baker and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that followed vividly shows how the new climate reality intersects with race and access to energy. The island is home to brown and black US citizens who lack the political power of those living in the continental US. As the world continues to warm and storms like Maria become more commonplace, it is critical that we rethink our current energy system to enable reliable, locally produced, and locally controlled energy without replicating the current structures of power and control. In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new energy system in order to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system. Revolutionary Power is a playbook for the energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. Baker tells the stories of those who have been left behind in our current system and those who are working to be architects of a more just system. She draws from her experience as an energy-justice advocate, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color to inspire activists working to build our new energy system. Climate change will force us to rethink the way we generate and distribute energy and regulate the system. But how much are we willing to change the system? This unique moment in history provides an unprecedented opening for a deeper transformation of the energy system, and thus, an opportunity to transform society. Revolutionary Power shows us how.
Download or read book Einstein s Equation The Path to Atomic Energy written by Barbara Carter and published by Raghava Appikatla. This book was released on 2024-10-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the fascinating world of Albert Einstein, the genius who revolutionized our understanding of the universe. This book delves into the groundbreaking equation, E=mc², a simple formula that unlocked the secrets of atomic energy and forever changed the course of history. Imagine the world before the atom bomb, before nuclear power plants, before the very concept of energy being equivalent to mass. This book explores the origins of Einstein's revolutionary idea, tracing its roots back to the minds of brilliant physicists like Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell. It explains the complex concepts behind the equation in a clear and engaging manner, making them accessible to a wide audience. The book goes beyond the science, delving into the ethical and political ramifications of atomic energy. It examines the development of the atomic bomb, the devastating impact of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the ongoing debate over nuclear weapons. It also explores the promise of nuclear power as a clean and sustainable energy source, and the challenges of managing its risks. This book is not just a history lesson; it is a journey of discovery that reveals the interconnectedness of science, technology, and humanity. It challenges readers to think critically about the power of knowledge and the responsibility that comes with it. Through compelling narratives, insightful analysis, and thought-provoking questions, this book inspires readers to delve deeper into the wonders of physics and the profound implications of Einstein's legendary equation.
Download or read book Our Renewable Future written by Richard Heinberg and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the next few decades, we will see a profound energy transformation as society shifts from fossil fuels to renewable resources like solar, wind, biomass. But what might a one hundred percent renewable future actually look like, and what obstacles will we face in this transition? Authors explore the practical challenges and opportunities presented by the shift to renewable energy."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Pathways to Energy Independence written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Networking 2004 written by Nikolas Mitrou and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-04-28 with total page 1551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, NETWORKING 2004, held in Athens, Greece, in May 2004. The 103 revised full papers and 40 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 539 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on network security; TCP performance; ad-hoc networks; wavelength management; multicast; wireless network performance; inter-domain routing; packet classification and scheduling; services and monitoring; admission control; competition in networks; 3G/4G wireless systems; MPLS and related technologies; flow and congestion control; performance of IEEE 802.11; optical networks; TCP and congestion; key management; authentication and DOS prevention; energy aspects of wireless networks; optical network access; routing in ad-hoc networks; fault detection, restoration, and tolerance; QoS metrics, algorithms, and architecture; content distribution, caching, and replication; and routing theory and path computation.
Download or read book Alternative Long range Energy Strategies written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Searching for Safety written by Aaron Wildavsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protecting ourselves against the risks associated with modern technologies has emerged as a major public concern throughout the industrialized world. Searching for Safety is unique in its exposition of a theory that explains how and why risk taking makes life safer and exposes the high risk of avoiding change. The book covers a wide range, including how the human body, as well as plants, animals, and insects, cope with danger. Wildavsky asks whether piling on safety measures actually improves safety. While he agrees that society should sometimes try to prevent large-scale harm, he explains why a strategy of resilience—learning from error how to bounce back in better shape—is usually better. His intention is to shift the debate about risk from passive prevention of harm to an active search for safety. This book will be of special interest to those concerned with risk involving technology, health, safety, environmental protection, regulation, and more.
Download or read book Classical And Quantum Dynamics In Condensed Phase Simulations Proceedings Of The International School Of Physics written by Bruce J Berne and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-06-17 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The school held at Villa Marigola, Lerici, Italy, in July 1997 was very much an educational experiment aimed not just at teaching a new generation of students the latest developments in computer simulation methods and theory, but also at bringing together researchers from the condensed matter computer simulation community, the biophysical chemistry community and the quantum dynamics community to confront the shared problem: the development of methods to treat the dynamics of quantum condensed phase systems.This volume collects the lectures delivered there. Due to the focus of the school, the contributions divide along natural lines into two broad groups: (1) the most sophisticated forms of the art of computer simulation, including biased phase space sampling schemes, methods which address the multiplicity of time scales in condensed phase problems, and static equilibrium methods for treating quantum systems; (2) the contributions on quantum dynamics, including methods for mixing quantum and classical dynamics in condensed phase simulations and methods capable of treating all degrees of freedom quantum-mechanically.
Download or read book Mobilizing Against Nuclear Energy written by Christian Joppke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two decades young people, environmentalists, church activists, leftists, and others have mobilized against nuclear energy. Anti-nuclear protest has been especially widespread and vocal in Western Europe and the United States. In this lucid, richly documented book, Christian Joppke compares the rise and fall of these protest movements in Germany and the United States, illuminating the relationship between national political structures and collective action. He analyzes existing approaches to the study of social movements and suggests an insightful new paradigm for research in this area. Joppke proposes a political process perspective that focuses on the interrelationship between the state and social movements, a model that takes into account a variety of forces, including differential state structures, political cultures, movement organizations, and temporal and contextual factors. This is an invaluable work for anyone studying the dynamics of social movements around the world.
Download or read book No Nukes written by Anna Gyorgy and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic. A comprehensive and accessible presentation of the ins-and-outs of nuclear power. It includes explanations of nuclear plant operation, the fuel cycle, health and safety hazards, the economics and politics of nuclear power, international anti-nuclear programs, and alternative energy sources.
Download or read book Nuclear Waste Disposal written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
