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Life after Fossil Fuels - A Reality Check on Alternative Energy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Life after Fossil Fuels - A Reality Check on Alternative Energy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Lecture Notes in Energy, 81
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This book is a reality check of where energy will come from in the
future. Today, our economy is utterly dependent on fossil fuels.
They are essential to transportation, manufacturing, farming,
electricity, and to make fertilizers, cement, steel, roads, cars,
and half a million other products. One day, sooner or later, fossil
fuels will no longer be abundant and affordable. Inevitably, one
day, global oil production will decline. That time may be nearer
than we realize. Some experts predict oil shortages as soon as 2022
to 2030. What then are our options for replacing the fossil fuels
that turn the great wheel of civilization? Surveying the arsenal of
alternatives - wind, solar, hydrogen, geothermal, nuclear,
batteries, catenary systems, fusion, methane hydrates, power2gas,
wave, tidal power and biomass - this book examines whether they can
replace or supplement fossil fuels. The book also looks at
substitute energy sources from the standpoint of the energy users.
Manufacturing, which uses half of fossil fuels, often requires very
high heat, which in many cases electricity can't provide. Industry
uses fossil fuels as a feedstock for countless products, and must
find substitutes. And, as detailed in the author's previous book,
"When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of
Transportation," ships, locomotives, and heavy-duty trucks are
fueled by diesel. What can replace diesel? Taking off the
rose-colored glasses, author Alice Friedemann analyzes our options.
What alternatives should we deploy right now? Which technologies
merit further research and development? Which are mere wishful
thinking that, upon careful scrutiny, dematerialize before our
eyes? Fossil fuels have allowed billions of us to live like kings.
Fueled by oil, coal, and natural gas, we changed the equation
constraining the carrying capacity of our planet. As fossil fuels
peak and then decline, will we fall back to Earth? Are there viable
alternatives?
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