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Power Density - A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses (Paperback): Vaclav Smil

Power Density - A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses (Paperback)

Vaclav Smil

Series: Power Density

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The first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, and all common energy uses. "There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil." -Bill Gates In this book, Vaclav Smil argues that power density is a key determinant of the nature and dynamics of energy systems. Any understanding of complex energy systems must rely on quantitative measures of many fundamental variables. Power density-the rate of energy flux per unit of area-is an important but largely overlooked measure. Smil provides the first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of the power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, thermal electricity generation, and all common energy uses. Smil shows that careful quantification, critical appraisals, and revealing comparisons of power densities make possible a deeper understanding of the ways we harness, convert, and use energies. Conscientious assessment of power densities, he argues, proves particularly revealing when contrasting the fossil fuel-based energy system with renewable energy conversions. Smil explains that modern civilization has evolved as a direct expression of the high power densities of fossil fuel extraction. He argues that our inevitable (and desirable) move to new energy arrangements involving conversions of lower-density renewable energy sources will require our society-currently dominated by megacities and concentrated industrial production-to undergo a profound spatial restructuring of its energy system.

General

Imprint: MIT Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Power Density
Release date: September 2016
First published: 2015
Authors: Vaclav Smil (Distinguished Professor Emeritus)
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52973-0
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Energy technology & engineering > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > General
LSN: 0-262-52973-4
Barcode: 9780262529730

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