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When Trucks Stop Running - Energy and the Future of Transportation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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When Trucks Stop Running - Energy and the Future of Transportation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Energy
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In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence
on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies
and high prices of oil. Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone
of civilization, hauling the goods that fulfill our every need and
desire. Their powerful, highly-efficient diesel combustion engines
are exquisitely fine-tuned to burn petroleum-based diesel fuel.
These engines and the fuels that fire them have been among the most
transformative yet disruptive technologies on the planet. Although
this transportation revolution has allowed many of us to fill our
homes with global goods even a past emperor would envy, our era of
abundance, and the freight transport system in particular, is
predicated on the affordability and high energy density of a single
fuel, oil. This book explores alternatives to this finite resource
including other liquid fuels, truck and locomotive batteries and
utility-scale energy storage technology, and various forms of
renewable electricity to support electrified transport.
Transportation also must adapt to other challenges: Threats from
climate change, financial busts, supply-chain failure, and
transportation infrastructure decay. Robert Hirsch, who wrote the
"Peaking of World Oil Production" report for the U.S. Department of
Energy in 2005, said that planning for peak world production must
start at least 10, if not 20 years ahead of time. What little
planning exists focuses mainly on how to accommodate 30 percent
more economic growth while averting climate change, ignoring the
possibility that we are at, or near, the end of growth. Taken for
granted, the modern transportation system will not endure forever.
The time is now to take a realistic and critical look at the
choices ahead, and how the future of transportation may unfold.
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