With energy consumption rising and with it our dependence on
crude oil from politically uncertain regions, and faced with the
threat to the environment from polluting emissions, it is becoming
ever more evident that fuels from renewable resources are an
increasingly attractive option to fossil fuels. Edinger and Kaul,
like a growing number of other experts, hold the mobility of
populations--transportation, in other words--responsposible for the
rise in the rate of greenhouse gas emissions, a condition that can
only get worse as less developed regions of the world emerge with
their own needs and demands for mobility. What to do? Edinger and
Kaul outline in sharp detail the shortcomings of current vehicular
technologies and dominant fossil fuels. They present a careful,
authoritative examination of innovative technologies that in their
opinion have the best chance of combating dangerous reliance on
conventional means of power, not only for transportation but other
purposes as well. And they focus on special forms of fuel cell
drive systems, with their high efficiencies and reduced
consumptions, and on other emerging renewable technologies and
their innovative, sustainable power sources--such as fuels from
biomass and renewable electricity, a particularly promising source
of energy for newly growing economies. Wide ranging in coverage,
forthright in style, the book is an important review of how things
are today, why they could get worse, but perhaps most importantly,
what we can do about it.
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