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Santa Barbara, California ; Denver, Colorado ; Oxford, England : Praeger, [2010]

ix, 178 stran : ilustrace ; 25 cm

ISBN 978-0-313-38177-5 (vázáno)

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Contents // The Book’s Raison d’etre vii // 1 Energy Systems: Their Basic Properties 1 // Resources and Prime Movers 2 // Conversions and Uses 7 // Infrastructures and Impacts 12 // Energy Transitions 17 // 2 Global Transitions: Universal Patterns 25 // Grand Fuel Sequence: From Biomass to Coal and Hydrocarbons 26 // A New Quality: Generation of Electricity 39 // History of Prime Movers: From Muscles to Machines 48 // Quantifying the Transitions: Uncertainties and Trends 61 // 3 National Transitions: Commonalities and Particularities 75 // European Experience: Britain, France, and the Netherlands 78 // U.S. Transitions: The Consuming Superpower 85 // Japan and China: The Asian Leaders 92 // New Energy Superpowers: Russia and Saudi Arabia 99 // 4 Coming Transitions: Expectations and Realities 105 // Renewable Energies: Resources, Conversions, and Constraints 107 // Pace of Transitions: Innovation, Infrastructures, and Inertia 119 // National Aspirations: Goals and Realities 129 // Cautious Anticipations: Trends and Possibilities 142 // Appendix 155 // References 157 // Index 167

(OCoLC)505017554