Drilling Down The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Tainter, Joseph A. (Συγγραφέας), Patzek, Tadeusz W. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Energy industries.; Environmental management.; Sustainable development.; Environmental Management.; Energy Economics.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Sustainable Development.

For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1.  Introduction
• 2.  The Significance of Oil in the Gulf of Mexico
• 3.  The Energy that Runs the World
• 4.  Offshore Drilling and Production: A Short History
• 5.  The Energy-Complexity Spiral
• 6.  The Benefits and Costs of Complexity
• 7.  What Happened at the Macondo Well
• 8.  Why the Gulf Disaster Happened
• 9.  Our Energy and Complexity Dilemma: Prospects for the Future
• Appendix A.  Glossary Appendix B.  Offshore Production
• Appendix C.  Operating an Offshore Platform
• Index.