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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Trevor Letcher (Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc Imprint: Academic Press Inc Weight: 1.270kg ISBN: 9780128141045ISBN 10: 0128141042 Pages: 820 Publication Date: 08 November 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsA INTRODUCTION 1. Why do we have global warming? Professor T M Letcher, 2. Greenhouse Gas Removal, the Numbers Involved Dr. Robert Chris 3. The Present Status of Electricity Generation in the World; how important it is, which industrial methods of electricity generation world uses, how efficient they are, how they interact in an electrical grid Professor Igor Pioro B REDUCING CO2: FOSSIL FUELS, NUCLEAR ENERGY 4. The Future of Fossil Fuels Trevor M Letcher 5. Nuclear Fission Professor Igor Pioro 6. Nuclear Fusion: what of the Future? Dr Richard Kembleton C REDUCING GREENHOUSE GASES: RENEWABLES and ZERO CARBON/ CARBON NEUTRAL FORMS OF ENERGY and ELECTRIC CARS 7. The Potential of Renewable Energies Professor Patrick Moriarty and Professor Damon Honnery 8. Hydropower Professor Ånund Killingtveit 9. Solar Energy Dr Lee Phillips 10. Wind Professor Subhamony Bhattacharya 11. Energy Infrastructure and Storage Professor Gareth Harrison 12. Biomass Professor Mirjam Roeder 13. Biomass: Quantifying the Effects of Forest-Based Energy Professor Annette Cowie 14. Hydrogen Fuel, Fuel Cells and methane Dr Johannes Lindorfer 15. Ground Source Heat Pumps Professor Subhamony Bhattacharya 16. Carbon Sequestration Professor Subhamony Bhattacharya D REDUCING CO2: INDUSTRY, FARMING and IMPROVED EFFICIENCY 17. Plant Derived Chemicals including Plastics as a way of Reducing GHG Pollution Professor Janet L Scott 18. Reduce CO2 Pollution by Investing in CO2 as a Chemical Feedstock (CH4?) Professor Peter Styring 19. Greener farming: managing carbon and nitrogen cycles to reduce GHG emissions Professor Nic Lampkin and Dr Laurence Smith E GEO-ENGINEERING 20. Geo-engineering (sunlight reflection methods (SRM); negative emissions technologies (NET) and greenhouse gas removal (GGR)) Dr Renaud de Richter F ENVIRONMENTAL and HUMAN ISSUES 21. Ethics of Geo-engineering Clare Heyward 22. Economics of Climate Change and Global Warming Professor Peter Howard 23. Migration and Climate Change Dr Andreas C Simonelli 24. Social Justice in Climate Change Ms Alice Venn 25. Economics of Geo-engineering Professor Juan B Moreno Cruz 26. Justice in Managing Climate Change Professor Ivo Wallimann-Helmer 27. Local Actions and Personal Actions Dr Phil IrelandReviewsAuthor InformationProfessor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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