Climate Change and Renewable Energy : How to End the Climate Crisis.
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations and Symbols; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 A Planet in Peril; Introduction; Heat Waves; Natural Disasters; Trends in Climate-Related Disasters; A World on Fire; The Big Melt; Sea Ice; Glaciers; Ice Sheets; Permafrost; Coral Reefs and Oceans; Acidification; Deoxygenation; Plastic Pollution; Air Pollution; Outdoor Air Pollution; Household Air Pollution; Air Pollution and Children; Water Pollution; In Sickness and in Health; Pesticides; Biodiversity; The Sixth Extinction?; The Big Picture; Conclusion; 2 The Overheated Earth; Introduction
- In the GreenhouseIn the Beginning; The Greenhouse Gases; Black Carbon; Drought and Floods; East Africa-The Drought Years; Ethiopia; California; South Africa; Floods; Food Insecurity; Availability; Access; Utilization; Stability; Locusts; The Warming Soils; Permafrost Soils; The Rising Seas; Storm Surge; Species on the Move; Climate Change and Conflict; Climate Change and Poverty; Climate-Driven Migration; Too Hot to Handle; The IPCC; Conclusion; 3 The Carbon Cycle; Introduction; Fast Carbon; The Temperature Connection; Land Use Change; Methane; Enlarging the Sinks; In the Ocean; On the Land
- Dialling It DownTwo Degrees of Heat; An Agreement in Paris; Mind the Gap; Negative Emission Technologies; Keep It in the Ground; Conclusion; 4 Carbon Chaos; Introduction; Coal; The Miners and the Mines; Preparing the Coal; Generating Electricity; Mercury; The Minamata Convention; Petroleum; Offshore Disasters; The Macondo Well Disaster; Oil Refineries; Oil Sands; Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage; Cyclic Steam Stimulation; Petcoke; Hydraulic Fracturing; Water Usage; Methane Emissions; Gathering the Gas; Railway Carbon; The Pipeline Wars; Standing Rock; Canada's Pipelines; Take the Train
- Climate JusticeThe Cost of Carbon; Conclusion; 5 Coming Clean; Introduction; Wind and Water; Leading the Way; Global Energy Production; The Key Sectors; The Power Sector; Can Coal Come Clean?; Transport; Public Transport; Marine and Aviation; Shipping; Case Study: Sweden; Aviation; Residential and Tertiary; Going Electric; Solar Thermal; Geothermal Heating; Industry; Carbon Capture and Storage; Rural Electrification; Minigrids; Tanzania; Haiti; Solar Home Systems; The Economics of Minigrids; Energy Efficiency; Industry; Buildings; Transport; Strategies for Improving Energy Efficiency
- Conclusion6 Getting Technical; Introduction; Wind Power; The Twenty-First Century; How It Works; Capacity Factor; Windspeed Distribution; Wind Resources; Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE); Environmental Impacts; Birds and Bats; Solar Photovoltaic Energy; Photovoltaic Technology; Distributed Solar Energy; Community Shared Solar; Onsite Energy Storage; Levelized Cost of PV Electricity; Concentrating Solar Power; Hydropower; Regional Trends; Pumped Storage; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Environmental Impacts; Biomass Energy; Biofuels; Advanced biofuels; Biogas; Geothermal Energy; How It Works