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.
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.
Modern societies require energy systems to provide energy for cooking, heating, transport, and materials processing, as well as for electricity generation.
Modern societies require energy systems to provide energy for cooking, heating, transport, and materials processing, as well as for electricity generation.
This volume investigates nuclear energy policies in Western Europe over the entire post-war period, but with special attention to the two most recent decades.
This volume investigates nuclear energy policies in Western Europe over the entire post-war period, but with special attention to the two most recent decades.
Energy crises, which amount to painful combinations of energy shortages and soaring prices, have struck the United States several times in recent decades.
Energy crises, which amount to painful combinations of energy shortages and soaring prices, have struck the United States several times in recent decades.
This book provides a detailed, global examination of energy transitions, supplying a long-term historical perspective, an up-to-date assessment of recent and near-term advances in energy production technology and implementation, and an explanation of why efforts to limit global warming and to shift away from fossil fuels have been gradual.
The world confronts an existential challenge in responding to climate change, resulting in an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors of the economy.
