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EnergyWhat Everyone Needs to Know®$
Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know®

José Goldemberg

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN:
9780199812905
DOI:
10.1093/wentk/9780199812905.001.0001
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Contents

  • Front Matter
    • List of Tables
    • List of Figures
    • Preface
  • 1 Energy: The Basic Concepts
  • Part I How is Energy Used Today?
    • 2 Present Energy Use
  • Part II The World’s Present Energy System
    • 3 Energy Sources
    • 4 Fossil Fuels
    • 5 Renewables
    • 6 Nuclear Power
  • Part III The Problems of the Present Energy System
    • 7 Exhaustion of Fossil Fuels and Energy Security
    • 8 Environmental Problems
    • 9 Energy Costs
  • Part IV Technical Solutions and Policies
    • 10 Energy Efficiency
    • 11 New Technologies
    • 12 Policies
  • Part V Nontechnical Solutions
    • 13 Energy And Lifestyle
  • End Matter
    • Appendix 1 Decimal Prefixes
    • Appendix 2 Common Energy Unit Conversion Factors
    • General References
    • Chapters 1 and 2
    • Chapters 3–6
    • Chapters 7–9
    • Chapters 10–12
    • Chapters 13
    • Index

Subject(s) in What Everyone Needs to Know®

  • Engineering and Technology
  • Environmental Science, Engineering, and Technology
  • Politics
  • Public Policy
  • Science and Mathematics
  • Social Sciences
  • US Politics
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  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • 1 Energy: The Basic Concepts
  • 2 Present Energy Use
  • 3 Energy Sources
  • 4 Fossil Fuels
  • 5 Renewables
  • 6 Nuclear Power
  • 7 Exhaustion of Fossil Fuels and Energy Security
  • 8 Environmental Problems
  • 9 Energy Costs
  • 10 Energy Efficiency
  • 11 New Technologies
  • 12 Policies
  • 13 Energy And Lifestyle
  • Appendix 1 Decimal Prefixes
  • Appendix 2 Common Energy Unit Conversion Factors
  • General References
  • Chapters 1 and 2
  • Chapters 3–6
  • Chapters 7–9
  • Chapters 10–12
  • Chapters 13
  • Index
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  • José Goldemberg
  • Published in print: 04 October 2012
  • Published online: 12 November 2020

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  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • 1 Energy: The Basic Concepts
  • 2 Present Energy Use
  • 3 Energy Sources
  • 4 Fossil Fuels
  • 5 Renewables
  • 6 Nuclear Power
  • 7 Exhaustion of Fossil Fuels and Energy Security
  • 8 Environmental Problems
  • 9 Energy Costs
  • 10 Energy Efficiency
  • 11 New Technologies
  • 12 Policies
  • 13 Energy And Lifestyle
  • Appendix 1 Decimal Prefixes
  • Appendix 2 Common Energy Unit Conversion Factors
  • General References
  • Chapters 1 and 2
  • Chapters 3–6
  • Chapters 7–9
  • Chapters 10–12
  • Chapters 13
  • Index
  • Oxford University Press
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