Energy Demand and Climate Change: Issues and Resolutions - Couverture souple

Cocks, Franklin Hadley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3527324461 ISBN 13 : 9783527324460

Editeur : Blackwell Verlag GmbH, 2009

Synopsis

This scientifically sound, yet easily readable book provides the fundamentals necessary to understand today's energy and climate problems and provides possible answers based on current technology such as solar, water and geothermal power. Moreover, it introduces the reader to new concepts that are already or may soon be realized, such as nuclear fusion or a hydrogen-based economy.
Aimed at a wide readership ranging from educated laypeople and students to practitioners in engineering and environmental science.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Franklin Hadley Cocks is Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the Pratt School of Engineering of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Professor Cocks has taught courses on energy and the environment for decades and has published over 150 technical papers and more than 20 US patents. He earned all his degrees from MIT and was a Fulbright Fellow at Imperial College, London, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard. At Tyco Laboratories he developed the silicon ribbon crystal growth method now used to produce silicon solar cells on an industrial scale. His foamed-metal payload was flown on the Columbia shuttle in 1991. He was a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory for many years and more recently for the Department of Energy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Verlag GmbH
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3527324461
• ISBN 13: 9783527324460
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 267
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible