Moriarty, Patrick
Rise and Fall of the Carbon Civilisation
1. The Problems We Face
2. Global Climate Change
3. Earth’s Resources Are Finite
4. Uncertainty in Global Environmental and Resource Problems
5. Renewable Energy: Too Little, Too Late?
6. Nuclear Energy: The Ultimate Technological Fix?
7. Engineering for Greater Energy Efficiency
8. Getting Rid of Atmospheric Carbon: Sequestration and Air Capture
9. Great and Desperate Measures: Geo-engineering
10. The New Economy
11. Conclusions
Keywords: Engineering, Renewable and Green Energy, Climate Change, Social Policy, Nuclear Engineering, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Renewable and Green Energy
- Author(s)
- Moriarty, Patrick
- Honnery, Damon
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Green Energy and Technology
- Page amount
- 231 pages
- Category
- Technology, Energy, Traffic
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781849964838