Energy Portfolios

This is a report on energy as of one of the most important issues of the twenty-first century. It discuses how countries deal with the composition of their energy portfolio, consistent with the endowment of energy resources, technologies and social, economical and environmental impacts, like CO2 emissions. In detail, the diversification of energy sources is treated. The role of non-carbon emitting sources (e.g. nuclear power) and renewable energy sources (e.g. hydroelectricity, geothermal, wind, biomass, solar electricity), and the R&D needed to realize their full potential are all considered and supported with numbers. It moreover presents ways to improve the efficiency and conservation in the technology through minimizing adverse environmental impact of energy industries on climate change, and pollution of air, water, soil and biota.

ISBN 0415469856   Pages 400 ISBN13 9780415469852 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 861 Imprint Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Format Hardback   Height (mm) 246 Publication date 23 Apr 2009   Width (mm) 174 Library of Congress 2009002059   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 333.79   Academic level Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

		List of figures
		List of tables
		List of plates
		Preface
		Foreword
		Abbreviations and acronyms
Sect. I		Energy from coal
Sect. II		Energy from oil and natural gas
Sect. III		Energy from the atom
Sect. IV		Renewable energy resources
Sect. V		Quo Vadis?
		Appendix
		Author index
		Subject index
		Colour plates

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