A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality
by Herbert Girardet and Miguel Mendonca
The post-Copenhagen world requires a fresh look at the big picture. In
the absence of international agreements, what steps can be taken
nationally, regionally and locally to reduce both carbon emissions and
carbon concentrations? The former can be achieved through a
transformation in energy production, saving and use, and the latter
through biological carbon sequestration. This book sets out examples of
these strategies, in policy and practice, from around the world. In
addition, the essential question of the active participation of all
sectors of society in this transformation is considered through
examples of existing initiatives, and the wider issue of democratic
reform.
A Renewable World was developed in conjunction with dozens of world
experts and features solutions on renewable energy, biosequestration,
energy sufficiency, energy for developing countries, green collar jobs,
cities, transport, agriculture and food, regional economies, and civil
participation and democracy. It seeks to clarify what can be done, and
how we can all benefit, long into the future.
http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/a_renewable_world.html
"Here’s the book we’ve been waiting for, a thorough, up-to-date, and
above all proportionate response to our climatic predicament. When I
say proportionate, I mean: it tells us how to solve the problem we
really have, not the one we wish we had. It’s truly important!"
Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org
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Familiar examples of such
Familiar examples of such processes include nuclear decay, in which energy is released that was originally "stored" in heavy isotopes (such as uranium and thorium), by nucleosynthesis,000-330 exam a process ultimately using the gravitational potential energy released from the gravitational collapse of supernovae, to store energy in the creation of these heavy elements before they were incorporated into the solar system and the Earth. This energy is triggered and released in nuclear fission bombs.SK0-002 exam In a slower process, heat from nuclear decay of these atoms in the core of the Earth releases heat, which in turn may lift mountains, via orogenesis. This slow lifting represents a kind of gravitational potential energy storage of the heat energy, which may be released to active kinetic energy in landslides, after a triggering event. Earthquakes also release stored elastic potential energy in rocks,642-654 exam a store that has been produced ultimately from the same radioactive heat sources. Thus, according to present understanding, familiar events such as landslides and earthquakes release energy that has been stored as potential energy in the Earth's gravitational field or elastic strain (mechanical potential energy) in rocks and, prior to this, represent energy that has been stored in heavy atoms since the collapse of long-destroyed stars created these atoms.
Solar power could be used in
Solar power could be used in order to generate energy towards something on a larger scale.
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