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Energy, Economics, and Ethics
The Promise and Peril of a Global Energy Transition
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Energy, Economics, and Ethics
The Promise and Peril of a Global Energy Transition
About this book
We are in the midst of an enormous global energy transition happening before our eyes. Alternative energy forms including solar, wind, water, and bio-fuels are challenging the established energy sources that have fuelled the industrial era for the past century.
As we look to this century's energy future an examination of the past is important to understand how these choices will be made. What political, economic, and ethical lessons can be learned from how coal, oil, and natural gas became the power of the 20th century? Are those lessons instrumental in determining future decisions about emerging alternative energy choices?
The opportunities and the risks involved in making, or not making these choices are enormous. Through case studies and examples of past and present development of energy sources, the story is told of the global energy industry. In its telling Energy, Economics, and Ethics wrestles with many of the difficult questions at the heart of the emerging global energy transition
As we look to this century's energy future an examination of the past is important to understand how these choices will be made. What political, economic, and ethical lessons can be learned from how coal, oil, and natural gas became the power of the 20th century? Are those lessons instrumental in determining future decisions about emerging alternative energy choices?
The opportunities and the risks involved in making, or not making these choices are enormous. Through case studies and examples of past and present development of energy sources, the story is told of the global energy industry. In its telling Energy, Economics, and Ethics wrestles with many of the difficult questions at the heart of the emerging global energy transition
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Measurements: Making Sense of Kilowatts and Carbon
- 1 Introduction: An Empty Lakebed
- 2 The Development and Challenges of Fossil Fuels
- 3 Germany’s Energy Story
- 4 The Energy Story of the United States
- 5 China’s Energy Story
- 6 India’s Energy Story
- 7 The Future of Renewables, Nuclear, and Increased Efficiency
- 8 The Coming Transition to Electric Vehicles
- 9 Carbon Pricing and Carbon Removal
- 10 Conclusion: A Pessimist and an Optimist Perspective
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author