Physics and the Environment directly connects the physical world to
environmental issues that the world is facing today and will face
in the future. It shows how the first and second laws of
thermodynamics limit the efficiencies of fossil fuel energy
conversions to less than 100%, while also discussing how clever
technologies can enhance overall performance. It also extensively
discusses renewable forms of energy, their physical constraints and
how we must use science and engineering as tools to solve problems
instead of opinion and politics. Dr. Kyle Forinash takes you on a
journey of understanding our mature and well developed technologies
for using fossil fuel resources and how we are unlikely to see huge
gains in their efficiency as well as why their role in climate
change ought to be an argument for their replacement sooner rather
than later. He also discusses the newest technologies in employing
renewable resources and how it is important to understand their
physical constrains in order to make a smooth transition to them.
An entire chapter is dedicated to energy storage, a core question
in renewable energy as well as another chapter on the technical
issues of nuclear energy. The book ends with a discussion on how no
environmental solution, no matter how clever from a technical
aspect, will succeed if there are cheaper alternative, even if
those alternatives have undesirable features associated with them.
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