Energy resources

Carbon capture and geological storage (CCS) is presently the only way that we can make deep cuts in emissions from fossil fuel-based, large-scale sources of CO2 such as power stations and industrial plants.

Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Conference in 2013 focused on the Future of Advanced Nuclear Technologies to generate new ideas about how to move nuclear technology forward while making the world safer and more secure.

Oil makes the world go round.

The United States and China are the world's top two energy consumers and, as of 2010, the two largest economies.

Delve into the history of energy resource conflicts, their present status, and the potential effects of today's energy production decisions on the future of humanity.

Here is a comprehensive introductory discussion of Earth, energy, and the environment in an integrated manner that will lead to an appreciation of our complex planet.

With South Asia's growing energy demand, governments in the region are facing the short-term pressures of facilitating energy access, while attempting to formulate long-term sustainable strategies.

Urban Energy Transition, second edition, is the definitive science and practice-based compendium of energy transformations in the global urban system.

Climate change is no longer deniable.

The last decade has seen a revolution in global energy.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionIn Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has developed in Australia over the last 20 years into a technique for systematically identifying the resource flows and environmental impacts associated with the provision of products and services.

This study was undertaken in recognition of the critical role played by the Energy Resources Program (ERP) of the U.

Reviews the latest advances in biofuel manufacturing technologies and discusses the deployment of other renewable energy for transportation Aimed at providing an interface useful to business and scientific managers, this book focuses on the key challenges that still impede the realization of the billion-ton renewable fuels vision.

Here is a comprehensive introductory discussion of Earth, energy, and the environment in an integrated manner that will lead to an appreciation of our complex planet.

In the past several years, some energy technologies that inject or extract fluid from the Earth, such as oil and gas development and geothermal energy development, have been found or suspected to cause seismic events, drawing heightened public attention.

The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless.

Activists, scientists and policymakers around the world have long argued that we need to find sustainable and secure solutions to the world's energy demands.

To meet human energy needs, the use of fossil fuels is set to continue well into the second half of the 21st century.

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The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing fracking as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local economies.

Activists, scientists and policymakers around the world have long argued that we need to find sustainable and secure solutions to the world's energy demands.

This book reviews current work and assesses the state of the art in potential applications of concentrated solar energy in nonelectric areas, such as water and waste treatment, photochemical processes, and materials processing.

Inside small homes and huts throughout the developing world, billions of people burn fires in rudimentary stoves to prepare their meals and heat their homes.

Over the past decade, renewables-based technology and sustainability assessment methods have grown tremendously.

Renewable Power Pathways is the result of a study by the National Research Council (NRC) Committee for the Programmatic Review of the Office of Power Technologies (OPT) review of the U.

This new textbook fills an important niche by offering a lively overview of the principles of ecology for a broad range of university-level science and biology courses.

This book assesses the current state of the field in a number of potential applications and discusses technologies for which concentrated solar energy might be utilized.

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

This 800-page premier book on energy focuses on energy sources, utilizations, legislations and sustainability as it relates to a state, a province, or a country, or a community within a state.

The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless.

This is an analytical assessment of how the government can accelerate development and deployment of energy technologies, for researchers and policy makers.

Over 60 million people live in the SADCC countries; by 2000 AD the number will be over 100 million.

The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s.

Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes negative effects.

In the United States, we have come to depend on plentiful and inexpensive energy to support our economy and lifestyles.

In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy.

There is a growing sense of national urgency about the role of energy in long-term U.

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

Tremendous research is taking place to make photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting technology a reality.

Energy and Global Climate Change: Bridging the Sustainable Development Divide focuses attention on two urgent global development challenges faced by the UN and its member states: access to sustainable energy for all, and global climate change.

Urban Energy Transition, second edition, is the definitive science and practice-based compendium of energy transformations in the global urban system.

The decisions we make about energy shape our present and our future.