Energy and Climate Change: Our New Future is a novel handbook that provides a thorough, cross-disciplinary understanding of future energy, energy transition, and climate change. The book begins by presenting the key concepts of climate change, enabling the reader to better understand the root causes and future implications of global warming, before assessing the current role and future outlook for fossil fuel-based energy sources. This is followed by in-depth coverage of the very latest types of cleaner energy options available, giving the reader ways to solve the problems of global warming and climate change. These include both tried and tested renewable energy systems and novel ideas that are still to be fully tested or utilized. The book explores how various renewable energy options will be affected by climate change, such as strong winds impacting on wind turbines, flooding of renewable energy infrastructure, droughts affecting hydroelectric schemes, and rising temperatures affecting solar panels, and discusses the life cycle of each type in order to support decision making. Alongside renewable energy and nuclear energy, areas such as carbon capture and energy storage methods are considered for their important role in furthering energy transition and mitigating climate change. This is an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in energy transition, renewable energy, climate change, and sustainability, including researchers, graduate students, scientists, engineers, practitioners, consultants, industry leaders, urban planners, and government personnel. Explains the fundamentals of climate change, global warming, energy transition, and future energy, and the connections between themReviews current options and future pathways in the transition to non-fossil fuel energy systems, including environmental impact, safety, and potential capacityOffers complete, authoritative coverage written by leading global experts INDICE: 1. Our Changing Climate2. Evidence of a Changing Climate (plants, animals, insects and humans)3. Global Warming, Weather Patterns and Climatic Disasters4. Climate Change, Tipping Points, Global Warming and the Root Causes and Fossil Fuels5. Global Warming and our Future Food Production6. Climate Change and Future Human Migration7. Global Warming and Human Health B. FOSSIL FUELS8. Oil, Present and in the Future9. Coal, Present and in the Future10. The Future of Natural Gas C. RENEWABLE ENERGY and STORING ENERGY IN LIGHT OF CLIMATE CHANGE11. Future Hydro Power Technology, Trondheim, Norway12. Future Wind13. Future Solar PV14. Future Geothermal15. Future Solar Concentrated16. Future Ocean - Waves17. Future Ocean - Tides18. Hydrogen Production and Hydrogen as an Energy Vector19. Future Storing Energy - Battery Technology20. Other Storage Methods21. Life Cycle Assessment of Renewable Energy Systems22. Techno-Economic Assessment of Renewable Energy D. NUCLEAR ENERGY23. Nuclear, Small Modular Reactors24. Nuclear Fission E. POSSIBLE NEW ENERGY and CARBON CAPTURE TECHNIQUES25. Nuclear Fusion26. Energy from Space27. Carbon Capture F. OUR NEW FUTURE28. The Bottom Line: Living with Global Warming and Renewable Energy
- ISBN: 978-0-443-21927-6
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 650
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2025
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés