The Energy-Climate Continuum Lessons from Basic Science and History /

• Main Author: Bret, Antoine (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Renewable energy resources.; Fossil fuels.; Climate change.; History.; Energy.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Energy.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture).; History, general.

This book puts the debates about the energy-climate continuum on a scientific ground! It is a must-read for everyone, who wants to understand how intimately the energy and climate debates are linked to each other, and who wants to participate in these omnipresent discussions. Antoine Bret explains i...

Table of Contents:

• Part I The Problem: What is the problem? Men and Joules
• A few Must-Know
• Fossil Fuels
• ABC of Climate Science
• Part II Elements of Solution: Energy Storage, Carbon Sequestration and Geo-Engineering
• Non-Fossil Energy Sources
• Constraints and Hazards
• A Toy Model
• Part III History: Why Societies are Fragile
• When Things went wrong
• When Things went right
• Appendices.