Energy resources

Formidable challenges confront Australia and its human settlements: the mega-metro regions, major and provincial cities, coastal, rural and remote towns.

Since 2008, energy and food markets those most fundamental to human existence have remained in turmoil.

Dwindling global supplies of conventional energy and materials resources are widely thought to severely constrain, or even render impossible, a "e;first-world"e; lifestyle for the bulk of Earth's inhabitants.

This landmark work lauds the benefits of decreased energy consumption, investigating its relationship to public policy and analyzing its potential billion-dollar benefits to the U.

Rivers are a vital component of ecology-the earth's hydrological cycle depends on them.

This book dispels common myths about electricity and electricity policy and reveals how government policies manipulate energy markets, create hidden costs, and may inflict a net harm on the American people and the environment.

Energy crises, which amount to painful combinations of energy shortages and soaring prices, have struck the United States several times in recent decades.

Discourse of Reciprocity reveals patterns of press behavior in the US-Canada alliance at points where the nature of the alliance itself was under stress.

The purpose of this textbook is to provide a well-rounded working knowledge of both climate change and environmental sustainability for a wide range of students.

This book explores how the idea of justice can give us a way to better assess and resolve energy challenges and problems.

In Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country's Environment, leading environmental thinkers in Australia have written provocative chapters on environmental issues facing the nation.

Employing scientific explanations and hard data, this book shows why coal is such a problem, how the pro-coal forces got to be so powerful, and how those forces might be defeated through political activism.

Presents an overview on the different aspects of the energy value chain and discusses the issues that future energy is facing This book covers energy and the energy policy choices which face society.

This is the first handbook to provide a global policy perspective on energy, bringing together a diverse range of international energy issues in one volume.

Methane hydrate is a natural form of clathrate - a chemical substance in which one molecule forms a lattice around a "e;guest"e; molecule with chemical bonding.

A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the complex issues surrounding energy generation and use, this one-of-a-kind resource clarifies everything from the basic structure of the industry to the potential-and risks-of new technologies.

The Helium Privatization Act of 1996 (P.

Who Turned Out the Lights?

Discourse of Reciprocity reveals patterns of press behavior in the US-Canada alliance at points where the nature of the alliance itself was under stress.

Der Wert des Bodens, das Wunder der Unterwelt, jene Abermillionen von Wurzeln und Würmern, Käfern, Bakterien und Pilzen, die in symbiotischem Zusammenwirken immer wieder neues Leben schaffen, wurde lange unterschätzt und missachtet.

Klimaneutralität bis 2045 lässt sich nur mit Hilfe von grünem Wasserstoff erreichen.

America's economy and lifestyles have been shaped by the low prices and availability of energy.

This is the first book to examine the social and cultural significance of coal in British society in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Since its inception in 1977 from an amalgam of federal authorities, the U.

When the U.

The acute energy problems facing China today are characterized by their own histories and realities.

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017The Arctic seabed, with its vast quantities of undiscovered resources, is the twenty-first century's frontier.

This book explains the drivers and implications of unconventional gas at regional, national and global scales with case studies and in-depth analyses.

In a fast-changing world, where the extraction of natural resources is key to development, whilst also creating environmental and social disasters, understanding how landscapes, people and politics are shaped by extraction is crucial.

This book provides an outstanding single-volume resource on the topic of solar energy for young adults and general audiences.

Is the earth's oil supply starting to run out, or is there far more oil than some experts believe?

Energy Resources: Examining the Facts provides an authoritative, comprehensive overview of economic, political, and environmental drivers of America's energy picture, from trends in the production and consumption of fossil fuels and renewables to the state of the national energy grid.

Dies ist die sehr persönlich erzählte Geschichte eines Umweltschützers der während des Weltkriegs II geborenen Generation.

Does the Earth contain enough oil to provide energy for the human race indefinitely?

Sustainable Futures explores the links between population growth, diminishing resources and environmental challenges, and the implications for Australia's future.

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The field of pore scale phenomena is now emerging as one of the frontiers of science and many engineering disciplines.

Gas pipelines constitute an important, yet unexplored, aspect of strategic geography.

This book dispels common myths about electricity and electricity policy and reveals how government policies manipulate energy markets, create hidden costs, and may inflict a net harm on the American people and the environment.

This is a book that tackles the most important issue of our age in a highly informative, accessible and engaging way.

The Gold Coast is one of Australia's premier tourism destinations, a modern city cut out of coastal vegetation, including paperbark swamps, mangroves and rainforests of both Indigenous and worldwide significance.

Natural gas in deep shale formations, which can be developed by hydraulic fracturing and associated technologies (often collectively referred to as "e;fracking"e;) is dramatically increasing production of natural gas in the United States, where significant gas deposits exist in formations that underlie many states.

Canada emerged from the Second World War as a hydro-electric superpower.

The Office of Fuels Development (OFD), a component of the U.

For over eighty years the Arab region has been deriving massive wealth from its natural resources.

The renewable and alternative energy markets and energy policy have evolved rapidly in recent years.