1st Edition

Green Energy Sustainable Electricity Supply with Low Environmental Impact

By Eric Jeffs Copyright 2009
236 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

236 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

236 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Green Energy: Sustainable Electricity Supply with Low Environmental Impact defines the future of the world’s electricity supply system, exploring the key issues associated with global warming, and which energy systems are best suited to reducing it. Electricity generation is a concentrated industry with a few sources of emissions, which can be controlled or legislated against. This book... Read more

Introduction

Global Warming

Carbon Capture and Storage

The End of Coal?

A Nuclear Energy Revival. Combined Cycle

The New Technologies. The Renewable Uncertainties

The Truth About America

What is in the Future?

Biography

Eric Jeffs is a retired journalist with more than 40 years of experience writing about power generating technology and energy policies.

"This book details how current technologies-particularly nuclear, combined cycle, and hydro-can be applied to satisfy safely the growing energy demands in the future."
––International Journal of Microstructure and Material Properties, 2013