Innovative energy strategies for CO₂ stabilization / edited by Robert G. Watts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watts, Robert G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renewable energy sources.

Power resources--Environmental aspects.

Power resources.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide--Environmental aspects.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Physical Description:

xii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Discusses feasibility of increasingly efficient energy use and supply from renewable sources, for researchers/advanced students.

Contents:

1 Concerns about Climate Change and Global Warming / Donald J. Wuebbles, Atul K. Jain, Robert G. Watts 1

1.2 The Changing Climate 2

1.3 The Changing Atmospheric Composition 5

1.4 Radiative Forcing and Climate Change 11

1.5 Potential Impacts of Climate change 18

1.6 Policy Considerations 20

2 Posing the Problem / Robert G. Watts 27

2.1 Scenarios 27

2.2 Energy Implications of the Scenarios 30

2.3 An Engineering Problem 38

3 Adaptive Strategies for Climate Change / Robert J. Lempert, Michael E. Schlesinger 45

3.2 The Case for Adaptive-Decision Strategies 47

3.3 Assessing Adaptive-Decision Strategies 51

3.4 Design of Adaptive-Decision Strategies 58

4 Energy Efficiency: a Little Goes a Long Way / Susan J. Hassol, Neil D. Strachan, Hadi Dowlatabadi 87

4.2 What is Energy Efficiency? 90

4.3 Historical Trends and Future Predictions 92

4.4 Developing Nations and Uncertainty in Future Energy Use 97

4.5 Viewpoints on Energy Efficiency 101

4.6 The Development of Energy Efficient Technologies 102

4.7 Adoption of Energy Efficiency 104

4.8 Policy Aspects of Energy Efficiency 107

4.9 Efficiency Case Studies 111

5 The Potential of Renewable Energy to Reduce Carbon Emissions / Walter Short, Patrick Keegan 123

5.2 Characteristics of Renewable Energy Technologies 125

5.3 Market Issues 145

5.4 Regional Status and Potential of Renewables to Address Climate Change 158

5.5 Scenarios for the Future 167

5.6 System-level Deployment 168

5.7 Policy Requirements 173

6 Carbonless Transportation and Energy Storage in Future Energy Systems / Gene D. Berry, Alan D. Lamont 181

6.1 Carbonless Energy Carriers 181

6.2 Transition Paths Toward Carbonless Energy 187

6.3 Hydrogen Transportation Technology 198

6.4 Displacing Natural Gas from Transportation 200

6.5 Alternatives to Hydrogen Energy Storage 202

6.6 Hydrogen Vehicles as Buffer Energy Storage 203

6.7 Strategies for Reducing Carbon Emissions 203

7 What Can Nuclear Power Accomplish to Reduce CO[subscript 2] Emissions / Robert Krakowski, Richard Wilson 211

7.3 Public Acceptance 244

7.4 Future Directions 254

7.5 Incorporating Nuclear Energy into Energy-Economic-Environmental (E[superscript 3]) Models 285

7.6 Conclusion: A Possible Future for Nuclear Energy 298

8 Nuclear Fusion Energy / Arthur W. Molvik, John L. Perkins 325

8.2 Potential of Fusion 327

8.3 Approaches to Fusion Energy 331

9 Energy Prosperity Within the Twenty-first Century and Beyond: Options and the Unique Roles of the Sun and the Moon / David R. Criswell 345

9.1 Twenty-first Century Challenges: People, Power and Energy 345

9.2 Sources to Supply 60 TWt or 20 TWe Commercial Power by 2050 349

9.3 Lunar Solar Power (LSP) System 384

9.4 LSP System Versus Other Power System Options at 20 Twe 393

9.5 Implications of the Lunar Solar Power System 400

10 Geoengineering the Climate: History and Prospect / David W. Keith 411

10.2 Defining Geoengineering 412

10.3 History 414

10.4 Taxonomy and Review of Proposals to Manipulate the Climate 425

10.5 Evaluating Geoengineering 437.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521807255

OCLC:

48362820