Future energy options from a systems perspective

Future energy options from a systems perspective / Nick King, Aled Jones.

This book is an exploration of energy and its unique role to date as one of the fundamental enabling and controlling factors in human development and progress at the scale of global civilisation, and how it will be fundamental to the type of future that collective humanity is likely to experience. T...

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Main Authors: King, N. D. (Author), Jones, Aled Wynne (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Subjects:
Power resources.
Energy security.
Economic development.
energy resources.
economic development.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • 1 Introduction
  • Energy as a Critical Phenomenon
  • Phases of Human Energy Use Through Time
  • Taming of Fire
  • Agriculture and Animal Metabolic Power
  • Natural Energy Flows, Whale Oil and Human Slavery
  • Fossil Fuels and Industrialisation
  • Nuclear and Renewables
  • Themes Through the Evolution of Human Energy Use
  • Succession and Interdependence of Energy Sources and Types
  • Geography and Portability
  • Energy Return on Investment
  • Complexity, Energy and the Superorganism
  • Current Global Energy Situation-The Global 'Energy Bind'
  • Assessment of the Continued Growth Branch
  • The Stabilisation Branch
  • Long-Term Stability of Complex Systems
  • Energy Technologies and Stabilisation
  • A Renewables-Based Civilisation
  • Challenges for the Renewables Transition
  • Systemic Challenges
  • Re-materialisation
  • Externalities of Renewables
  • Constraints to New Frontiers for Renewables
  • Enablers and Opportunities for the Renewables Transition
  • Degrowth and Changes to Per Capita Energy Use
  • Renewables Circular Economy
  • Interactions with the Food System
  • Potential Hybrid Energy Systems
  • Assessment of the Renewables Stabilisation Branch
  • References
  • 3 Conclusions
  • Fossil Fuel Systemic Inertia
  • Longer Term Perspectives
  • References
  • Index

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