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ISBN-10 :  1009433172 

ISBN-13 :  9781009433174

Author: John Kingston White 

The transition to renewable energy is vital and fast-paced, but how do we choose which technologies to drive this energy transition? This timely book provides everyone interested in the renewable energy transition with an introduction to and technical foundation for understanding modern energy technology. It traces everyday power generation through history, from the Industrial Revolution to today. It examines the use of wood, coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, and nuclear to produce energy, before discussing renewable energy sources such as biomass, photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, wave, and geothermal. The book examines to what extent and how each technology can contribute to a clean, green infrastructure. The Truth About Energy explains the science and engineering of energy to help everyone understand and compare current and future advances in renewable energy, providing the context to critically examine the different technologies that are competing in a fast-evolving engineering, political, and economic landscape.

The Truth about Energy 1st Table of contents:

Part I Out with the Old
1 Wood to Coal
1.1 Fire and Water Become Heat and Steam
1.2 The Energy Content of Fuel: Wood, Peat, Coal, Biomass, etc.
1.3 The Original Black Gold: Coal
1.4 Coal Combustion, Health, and the Forgotten Environment
1.5 The Economic By-Products of Coal: Good, Bad, Ugly, and Indifferent
1.6 A Very Old Very New Fuel: Biomass
1.7 The Closed Loop: Making Waste Profitable
1.8 Moving Heat Becomes Electrical Power
2 Oil and Gas: Twentieth-Century Prosperity
2.1 The New Black Gold
2.2 The Standard Runs the World
2.3 The Engine Makers: Otto, Daimler, Maybach, Benz, and Diesel
2.4 A New World Culture: Fast and Furious
2.5 Hydrocarbons and the Darker Side to Oil
2.6 Volkswagen, Emissions, and a Careless Car Culture
2.7 A New World Order: Money, Mecca, and the Middle East
2.8 Saudi Arabia, OPEC, and the Politics/Price of Oil
2.9 Oil Basics: Who, What, Where
2.10 Modern Oil Extraction and a Continuing Black Gold Economy
2.11 Shale Oil Extraction: Frack, Rattle, and Roll
2.12 Shale Oil Blues: Production, Distribution, Pollution
2.13 More Dark Sides: Pipelines, Railways, Oil Sands, and Climate Catastrophe
2.14 Carbon Capture: Industry Savior or Pie-in-the-Sky Technology?
2.15 Peak Oil and the Downward Side of Growth
3 The Nuclear World: Atoms for Peace
3.1 Nuclear Fission: Turning Mass into Energy
3.2 Nuclear Beginnings: Atoms for War
3.3 The Origins of Nuclear Power: Atoms for War and Peace
3.4 Radiation: What You Don’t See Is What You Get
3.5 Radiation: Long-Term Effects
3.6 Nuclear Waste Products: Impossible to Ignore
3.7 Nuclear Safety Systems: Can We Ever Be 100% Sure?
3.8 Fukushima: The Last Nuclear Disaster or Portent of More?
3.9 The State of the Art: Is There a Nuclear Future?
3.10 Fusion: The Power of the Future, Coming Soon at Long Last?
Part I Coal, Oil, Nuclear Milestones
Part II In with the New
4 Old to New: The Sun and All Its Glory
4.1 Our Massive Solar Source
4.2 The Solar Source on Earth
4.3 The First Solar Revolution: Passive Sun Power
4.4 What Is Photo-Voltaic? The Science of “Harvesting the Sun”
4.5 Solid State Fundamentals: Redirecting Electrons
4.6 From Chips and Solar Cells to LEDs and Light
4.7 Enter the Solar Panel: The Sun for Hire
4.8 The PV Market: At Home and in the Lab
4.9 The Solar Field: Bigger and Better Year on Year
4.10 Utility-Scale Solar: The New and the Old Revamped
4.11 Change: The End and the Beginning of the Revolutions
4.12 More Change: New Energy Technology
5 The Old Becomes New Again: More Sustainable Energy
5.1 The Winds of Change
5.2 Onshore, Offshore, NIMBY, PIMBY
5.3 The Hot Earth Rises: Geothermal Comes of Age
5.4 Hydroelectric Power: Earth and Water Make Electricity
5.5 Hydroelectric Power: A Twentieth-Century Explosion
5.6 Marine Energy: Not Just Falling Water
5.7 Yesterday’s Electrical Power System: Top-Down Management
5.8 Tomorrow’s Electrical Power System: The Smart Grid from Macro to Micro
5.9 The Future of Electricity: More Efficient Charge Storage
6 Driving the Revolution Revolution: From Volta to Tesla and Back
6.1 Driving the Future: Electric Charge Powers the Way
6.2 Democratizing the Car Industry from the Top Down
6.3 A New EV World: The Future Is Already Here
6.4 The Revolution Revolution: Exhaust Optional
6.5 The New Machine: Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Driving
6.6 Twenty-First-Century Transit: E-Planes, E-Trains, and E-Automobiles
6.7 Industrial Storage: The Ups and Downs of Managed Energy (Pumped Hydro, Thermal, Compressed Air, etc.)
6.8 Hydrogen Gas: A New Old Pretender?
6.9 Industrial Charge Storage: The Future of Lithium
6.10 An Energy Technology Revolution: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
6.11 The Cost of Revolution: How and When Who Gets What
Part II Renewable Energy (Solar, Wind, …) and Electric Vehicles/Battery Milestones
Part III Less Is More
7 Rethink, Rebuild, Rewire
7.1 Think Globally and Act Locally: We Can All Make a Difference
7.2 Rethinking the Future: Quick and Easy Solutions
7.3 Everyday Transit for Everyday People: Share and Share Alike
7.4 Reducing, Reusing, Recycling, etc.
7.5 The Plastics Problem: Reducing, Returning, Researching, etc.
7.6 The Circular Economy: Say No to Waste
7.7 Shrinking Our Energy Impact: A Few Comparisons
7.8 We Are Not Alone: Less Is More

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