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020 _a9781139198363 (ebook)
020 _z9781107025608 (hardback)
020 _z9781107698369 (paperback)
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_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aTJ808
_b.P33 2014
082 0 0 _a333.79/4
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100 1 _aPagnoni, Gian Andrea,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe renaissance of renewable energy /
_cGian Andrea Pagnoni, Stephen Roche.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource (ix, 294 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: 1. What is energy?; 2. Where does energy come from?; 3. How much energy is enough?; 4. How energy is produced; 5. Challenging times: the politics and economics of energy; 6. The price of energy consumption; 7. Energy from my backyard.
520 _aThis book provides detailed yet easily understandable information about sustainable energy alternatives in the context of growing public concern about climate change, the impending fuel crisis and environmental degradation. It deals with the history of energy use and the factors that have led to the current interest in energy alternatives and assesses the chance of renewable energy replacing fossil fuels in the future. The authors manage to make a highly complex and often intimidating subject not only accessible but also engaging and entertaining. This book unpacks but never simplifies the science of energy, leavening the more technical passages with anecdotes, metaphors, examples and imagery. By also dealing with the history, politics and economics of energy use, it offers both scientific and non-scientific readers a deeper understanding of the most important issue of our age.
650 0 _aRenewable energy sources.
650 0 _aEnergy consumption
_xEnvironmental aspects.
700 1 _aRoche, Stephen,
_eauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107025608
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139198363
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_d519935