Ted Trainer

Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

It is widely assumed that our consumer society can move from using fossil fuels to using renewable energy sources, while maintaining the high levels of energy use to which we have become accustomed. This book details the reasons why this almost unquestioned assumption is seriously mistaken. Chapters on wind, photovoltaic, and solar thermal sources argue that these are not able to meet present electricity demands, let alone future demands. Coverage also explains why it is not likely that there will ever be a hydrogen economy and why nuclear energy is not the answer. The book, however, does offer an answer: a transition to The Simpler Way, a society based on more simple, self-sufficient and cooperative ways, within a zero-growth economy. It outlines the role renewable energy might play in enabling such a society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402055492
• Artikelnr.: 37348725

Autorenporträt

Ted Trainer, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

The Context.- Wind Energy.- Solar Thermal Electricity.- Photovoltaic Solar Electricity.- Liquid and Gaseous Fuels Derived from Biomass.- The "Hydrogen Economy".- Storing Electricity.- Conclusions on the Potential and the Limits.- Why Nuclear Energy is not the Answer.- The Wider Context: Our Sustainability and Justice Predicament.- The Simpler Way.

Rezensionen

From the reviews: "Ted Trainer, of the University of New South Wales, has made a valuable contribution to the literature of energy and resource depletion with his new book Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society. ... Anyone interested in Energy Descent Planning, Community Powerdown responses and Economic Localisation should read this book." (www.zone5.org, September, 2008)