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  title info:
    title: Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain A Consumer Society
  name:
    name part: Trainer, Ted.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 198 p. online resource.
  abstract: It is widely assumed that our consumer society can move from using fossil fuels to using renewable energy sources while maintaining the high levels of energy use to which we have become accustomed. This book details the reasons why this almost unquestioned assumption is seriously mistaken. Chapters on wind, photovoltaic and solar thermal sources argue that these are not able to meet present electricity demands, let alone future demands. Even more impossible will be meeting the demand for liquid fuel. The planet’s capacity to produce biomass is far below what would be required. Chapter 6 explains why it is not likely that there will ever be a hydrogen economy, in view of the difficulties in generating sufficient hydrogen and especially considering the losses and inefficiencies in distributing it. Chapter 9 explains why nuclear energy is not the answer. The discussion is then extended beyond energy to deal with the ways in which our consumer society is grossly unsustainable and unjust. Its fundamental twin commitments to affluent living standards and economic growth have inevitably generated a range of alarming and accelerating global problems. These can only be solved by a transition to The Simpler Way, a society based more on simpler, self-sufficient and cooperative ways, within a zero-growth economy. The role renewable energy might play in enabling such a society is outlined.
  table of contents: The Context -- Wind Energy -- Solar Thermal Electricity -- Photovoltaic Solar Electricity -- Liquid and Gaseous Fuels Derived from Biomass -- The “Hydrogen Economy” -- Storing Electricity -- Conclusions on the Potential and the Limits -- Why Nuclear Energy is not the Answer -- The Wider Context: Our Sustainability and Justice Predicament -- The Simpler Way.
  note: by Ted Trainer.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy resources
  subject:
    topic: Electric power production
  subject:
    topic: Power electronics
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy sources
  subject:
    topic: Alternate energy sources
  subject:
    topic: Green energy industries
  subject:
    topic: Energy industries
  subject:
    topic: Social policy
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environment, general
  subject:
    topic: Renewable and Green Energy
  subject:
    topic: Energy Economics
  subject:
    topic: Energy Technology
  subject:
    topic: Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks
  subject:
    topic: Social Policy
  classification: GE1-350
  classification: 333.7
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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