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SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO ENERGY.
1. General Considerations.
2. A Digression on the Necessity of a Finite World Population.
3. Work, Energy, and Power.
SECTION 2: ELECTRICITY GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION.
4. Electricity.
5. Consumption of Electrical Energy: Projections and Exponential Growth.
SECTION 3: THERMAL ASPECTS OF ENERGY GENERATION.
6. Atoms and Chemical Energy.
7. The Efficiency of Energy Generation and Thermodynamics.
8. Production and Distribution of Electricity.
9. Conservation: An Important Energy Source.
SECTION 4: MATERIAL RESOURCES AND CONSEQUENCES.
10. Mineral Resources.
11. Recycling and Reuse.
SECTION 5: FOSSIL FUEL RESOURCES AND CONSEQUENCES.
12. Fossil Fuel Resources.
13. Environmental Effects of Utility Generating Facilities.
14. Pollution from Fossil Fuels.
15. Moving Down the Road.
16. Weather and Climate.
17. Climate Change and Human Activity.
SECTION 6: NUCLEAR ENERGY RESOURCES AND CONSEQUENCES.
18. Nuclear Energy.
19. Energy from Nuclear Reactors.
20. Safety and Nuclear Energy.
SECTION 7: SOLAR ENERGY.
21. Solar Energy.
22. Solar Energy and Water.
23. Biomass Energy.
24. The Energy Cost of Agriculture (A Case Study).
SECTION 8: ENERGY ALTERNATIVES.
25. Energy Storage and Energy Alternatives.
26. Tocsin.
Appendix 1: Scientific Notation.
Appendix 2: Logarithms.
Appendix 3: Understanding Tabular Data.
Appendix 4: Vector Addition.
Index.
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Trevor Weisgerber
reviewed Energy: Physical, Environmental and Social Impact on July 24, 2010
Energy: Physical, Environmental and Social Impact
I got a rough idea from this treatise how different kinds of energy sources were like, and how private and government forces can be intertwined in each of these sources.
The book was a little bit unconventional for a "In a Nutshell" series, because it started with basic economics concepts.
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