Energy and the Missing Resource: A View from the Laboratory

di I. Dostrovsky (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 1989

This 1989 book provides a nontechnical analysis of present and future energy resources and their potential development to meet future demand. The prevailing impression in popular discussion of future energy supply is that a crisis will occur, sooner or later, owing to the exhaustion of present resources. This informative and thought-provoking book demonstrates that sufficient resources are available to meet all energy needs for the foreseeable future. However, this does not remove the threat of an energy-supply crisis. What is lacking - the missing resource - is the knowledge of how to use these resources in a practical and environmentally acceptable manner. The author argues that long-term technical development will be necessary to ensure future energy sufficiency and that international cooperation on technical research, environmental impact, and energy use is needed now to prevent a succession of energy crises in the future. All those involved with energy in a technical, business, or governmental policy capacity will find book essential and rewarding reading.

• Autore: I. Dostrovsky
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 1989
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 200 p.
• Dimensioni: 228 x 152 mm
• Peso: 290 gr.
• EAN: 9780521319652

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