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The Gulf Oil Spill
In March 2008, in the city of New Orleans, the giant oil company BP purchased the right to drill for oil at the Macondo well in an area identified as...
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Sustainable Energy Opportunities and Limitations
In this timely book, leading authors explore the technologies that might help us to develop a sustainable energy future, emphasising renewable energy...
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Long-term, Renewables-Intensive World Energy Scenarios
Can renewable energy sources make a major contribution to the world’s growing energy needs, and to reducing atmospheric carbon emissions, during the...
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Sustainable Lifestyles of the Future
In the great debates over climate change there is always a ghost at the banquet — or is it an elephant in the room? It is the ‘lifestyle’ question:...
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Wind Power and Similar Renewable Sources —Why Variability Doesn’t Matter
‘What happens when the wind stops blowing?’ is a question that is frequently asked. Nobody asks, ‘What happens when a large thermal power station, or...
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Carbon Trading: Opportunities and Issues
The creation of markets for carbon trading is often seen as a key way in which the development of new ‘cleaner’ energy options, as well as more...
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Sea Power — How We Can Tap Wave and Tidal Power
Renewable energy can be used both in rural and urban areas. Given proper attention to the efficient use of energy, most rural areas can probably meet...
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The Limits to Energy Efficiency: Time to Beat the Rebound Effect
While the previous chapter has presented technical solutions to reducing energy use, this chapter first looks at the historic failure of this...
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Biomass — Greening the Transport Sector
Transport fuels supply around one third of total energy use in the UK, and nearly a quarter of national carbon dioxide emissions. Until recently,...
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Supporting Renewables: Feed in Tariffs and Quota/Trading Systems
New technologies, like renewable energy systems, usually need support to become established. Some governments have focused on initial direct state...
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Sustainable Energy: Nuclear Power and Renewables
If we are to move towards a sustainable approach to energy generation, that is, an approach which can be continued into the future without...
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Solar Power: Using Energy from the Sun in Buildings
Solar Energy is the easiest form of renewable energy to integrate into the fabric of a building, and in turn a city, and is capable of providing a...
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Supporting Renewables: Local Ownership, Wind Power and Sustainable Finance
There are a range of ways to provide financial and institutional support for renewable energy projects — including direct government support and...
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Saving Energy — How to Cut Energy Wastage
Most of the previous chapters have concentrated on energy supply. This chapter looks at ways to save energy and focuses on energy in buildings in the...
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A Sustainable Future for Energy?
This book has attempted to review the potential and problems of moving towards a long-term fully sustainable energy future. The assumption has been...