Sustainable Mobility: Renewable Energies for Powering Fuel Cell Vehicles - Couverture rigide

Edinger, Raphael; Kaul, Sanjay

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1567204848 ISBN 13 : 9781567204841

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2003

Synopsis

With energy consumption rising and with it our dependence on crude oil from politically uncertain regions, and faced with the threat to the environment from polluting emissions, it is becoming ever more evident that fuels from renewable resources are an increasingly attractive option to fossil fuels. Edinger and Kaul, like a growing number of other experts, hold the mobility of populations—transportation, in other words—responsposible for the rise in the rate of greenhouse gas emissions, a condition that can only get worse as less developed regions of the world emerge with their own needs and demands for mobility. What to do? Edinger and Kaul outline in sharp detail the shortcomings of current vehicular technologies and dominant fossil fuels. They present a careful, authoritative examination of innovative technologies that in their opinion have the best chance of combating dangerous reliance on conventional means of power, not only for transportation but other purposes as well. And they focus on special forms of fuel cell drive systems, with their high efficiencies and reduced consumptions, and on other emerging renewable technologies and their innovative, sustainable power sources—such as fuels from biomass and renewable electricity, a particularly promising source of energy for newly growing economies. Wide ranging in coverage, forthright in style, the book is an important review of how things are today, why they could get worse, but perhaps most importantly, what we can do about it.

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À propos de l?auteur

RAPHAEL EDINGER is an economist at Hohenheim University, Germany.

SANJAY KAUL is Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Technology, Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1567204848
• ISBN 13: 9781567204841
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144
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