Avoiding Carbon Apocalypse Through Alternative Energy Life After Fossil Fuels /

• Main Author: Lowry, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Energy.; Renewable energy resources.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Sustainable development.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Sustainable Development.

This important book lays bare the dangers of global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions stemming from fossil fuel use, and proposes pathways toward mitigation. A discussion of the current main uses of fossil fuels acts as a basis for presenting viable, economically sound alternatives. The aut...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Energy Produced and Carbon Released From Fossil Fuels and Amount of Alternative Energy Required to Replace This
• Electrical Super Grids
• Alternative, Sustainable an Nuclear Energy
• Hydrogen and Other Synthesized Fuels
• Energy Storage
• Economics
• Land Transport Without Fossil Fuels
• Air and Sea Transport Without Fossil Fuels
• Do We Have the Resources?
• Energising the World From Non-Fossil Fuel Sources
• Final Infrastructure
• Avoiding Carbon Apocalypse
• Appendix.