Opis: Energy Autonomy - Hermann Scheer, H Scheer

For 200 years, industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap carbon fuels. But continued reliance has had perilous consequences. On the one hand there is the insecurity of relying on the world's most unstable region - the Middle East - compounded by the imminence of peak oil, growing scarcity and mounting prices. On the other, the potentially cataclysmic consequences of continuing to burn fossil fuels, as the evidence of accelerating climate change shows. Yet there is a solution: to make the transition to renewable sources of energy and distributed, decentralized energy generation. It is a model that has been proven, technologically, commercially and politically, as Scheer comprehensively demonstrates here. The alternative of a return to nuclear power - again being widely advocated - he shows to be compromised and illusory. The advantages of renewable energy are so clear and so overwhelming that resistance to them needs diagnosis - which Scheer also provides, showing why and how entrenched interests and one-dimensional structures of thinking oppose the transition, and what must be done to overcome these obstacles. The new book from the award-winning author of "The Solar Economy" and "A Solar Manifesto" demonstrates why the transition to renewable energy is essential and how it can be done. "* 'Most Important New Non-Fiction' Die Zeit * 'Hermann Scheer has taken aim against a number of our planet's Goliaths all at once. The world needs pioneers like him.' Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker"Introduction * Renewable Energy: The Deceptive Global Consensus * Part I: Sun or Atom: The Fundamental Conflict of the 21st Century * Part II: Blockades to Action: The Unbroken Power of One-Dimensional Thinking * Part III: Energy Autonomy: The Archimedean Point of the Breakthrough to Renewable Energy

Szczegóły: Energy Autonomy - Hermann Scheer, H Scheer

Tytuł: Energy Autonomy
Autor: Hermann Scheer, H Scheer
Producent: Earthscan
ISBN: 9781844073559
Rok produkcji: 2006
Ilość stron: 320
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.53 kg

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