A solar world : climate change and the green energy revolution / David Elliott.
By: Elliott, David
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BookSeries: Schumacher briefing ; 10.Publisher: Totnes : Green, 2003Description: 96 p. ; 21 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 190399831X.Subject(s): Renewable energy sourcesDDC classification: 333.794 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 333.794 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00116462 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
No technology is entirely benign. Renewable energy technologies may have far less impacts than the global impact of fossil fuels, but they do have local impacts. How do we trade off local and global impacts? In this Briefing, Dave Elliott establishes the basic sustainable energy options and their potential problems in the short, medium and long term, dealing with the counter-arguments. This means looking at changes in the way we live and behave. Is it possible to use renewable sources to sustain economic growth indefinitely?
Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-90).
Introduction -- Renewable energy: its limits and opportunities -- Transport: the road ahead -- The limits to sustainable energy -- What next?
Author notes provided by Syndetics
David Elliott is Profesor of Technology Policy at the Open University and Director of the Open University Energy and Environment Research Unit.