Energy, the Environment and Climate Change Hardcover - 2010
by E, Hodgson Peter
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This book is a comprehensive account of all significant energy sources, evaluated according to their capacity, reliability, cost, safety and effects on the environment. Non-renewable sources (for example, coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel) together with renewable sources like wood, hydro, biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, ocean thermal, and tidal; are considered. Also, nuclear radiations and the disposal of nuclear waste and the future of nuclear power are assessed, as well as pollution and acid rain, the greenhouse effects and climate change. Its social, political and moral problems are discussed, with a special mention of the opposition to nuclear power.
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- Title Energy, the Environment and Climate Change
- Author E, Hodgson Peter
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language ENG
- Publisher Imperial College Press, United Kingdom
- Date 2010-03
- ISBN 9781848164154
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- Choice, 06/01/2011, Page 0
- Reference and Research Bk News, 06/01/2011, Page 296
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