1st Edition
Engineering Sustainable Life on Earth Alleviating Adverse Climate Change Through Better Design
Part I: The Big Reset
1. Engineering Extinction?
2. Why Design Engineering?
3. How Did We Get Here? The Legacy of the Industrial Revolution
4. The Technology Revolution
Part II: Clean Energy
5. Energy Storage Systems
6. Renewables
7. (Decentralised) Nuclear Power
8. Building a Clean Grid
Part III: Transport
9. Cars
10. Commercial Aviation
Part IV: Food and Agriculture
11. Food
12. Farming and Agriculture
Part V: Homes and Housing
13. Urbanisation vs Dispersed Communities
Part VI: Unheeded Warnings and Critical Actions
14. Unheeded Warnings
15. Critical Actions
Acknowledgements
Biography
John F. Coplin, aeronautical engineer, chief designer of Rolls-Royce’s RB211 aeroengine. During the 1990s, he was UK science and technology advisor to the Indonesian President. Previously a visiting professor on engineering design to Oxford University and Imperial College and Associate Fellow in Design Engineering at the University of Warwick.
"John Coplin’s pedigree is perfect for this timely, important book: a masterly analysis of the climate change problems the world must address; a series of powerful arguments for a convincing array of solutions based on a design engineering approach: a textbook for post-COP 26 work by the UK and globally. A well-grounded, successful and renowned aeronautical engineer and polymath, John Coplin employs his wider scientific skills, international experience, deep and broad thinking, the vision all these elements inspire, and clear logic to argue, explain and quantify ways forward to limit significantly the adverse effects of climate change, and provide better and sustainable ways of living on this planet."
Sir Roger Carrick, former British High Commissioner and Ambassador
