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Hodgson, P. E.

Energy, the environment and climate change

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Energy, the environment and climate changePeter E. Hodgson.
Author:	Hodgson, P. E.
Published:	London :Imperial College Press ;c2010.
Description:	xxi, 202 p. :ill.
Subject:	Power resourcesEnvironmental aspects.
Online resource:	http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/P651#t=toc
ISBN:	9781848164178 (electronic bk.)

Energy, the environment and climate change
Hodgson, P. E.

Energy, the environment and climate change[electronic resource] /Peter E. Hodgson. - London :Imperial College Press ;c2010. - xxi, 202 p. :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book is a comprehensive account of all significant energy sources, evaluated according to their capacity, reliability, cost, safety and effects on the environment. Non-renewable sources (for example, coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel) together with renewable sources like wood, hydro, biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, ocean thermal, and tidal; are considered. Also, nuclear radiations and the disposal of nuclear waste and the future of nuclear power are assessed, as well as pollution and acid rain, the greenhouse effects and climate change. Its social, political and moral problems are discussed, with a special mention of the opposition to nuclear power.

Electronic reproduction.
Singapore :
World Scientific Publishing Co.,
2010.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

ISBN: 9781848164178 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

306848
Power resources
--Environmental aspects.

LC Class. No.: TJ163.2

Dewey Class. No.: 333.79

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