Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable EnergyRoutledge, 2012 M05 4 - 320 pages For 200 years industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap carbon fuels. But continued reliance has had perilous consequences. On the one hand there is the insecurity of relying on the world's most unstable region - the Middle East - compounded by the imminence of peak oil, growing scarcity and mounting prices. On the other, the potentially cataclysmic consequences of continuing to burn fossil fuels, as the evidence of accelerating climate change shows. Yet there is a solution: to make the transition to renewable sources of energy and distributed, decentralized energy generation. It is a model that has been proven, technologically, commercially and politically, as Scheer comprehensively demonstrates here. The alternative of a return to nuclear power - again being widely advocated - he shows to be compromised and illusory. The advantages of renewable energy are so clear and so overwhelming that resistance to them needs diagnosis - which Scheer also provides, showing why and how entrenched interests and one-dimensional structures of thinking oppose the transition, and what must be done to overcome these obstacles. The new book from the award-winning author of THE SOLAR ECONOMY and A SOLAR MANIFESTO demonstrates why the transition to renewable energy is essential and how it can be done. |
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... Consensus 1 Part I Sun or Atom: The Fundamental Conflict of the 21st Century Part II Blockades to Action: The Unbroken Power of One-Dimensional Thinking Part III Energy Autonomy: The Archimedean Point of the Breakthrough to Renewable ...
... Conference World Health Organization World Summit on Sustainable Development World Trade Organization World Wide Fund for Nature Introduction Renewable Energy: The Deceptive Global Consensus The method ofphysics x ENERGY AUTONOMY.
... Consensus. The method ofphysics is only ofconcern to physicists, its impact concerns everyone. What concerns everyone is something only all ofus can solve. Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Physicists1 It seemed as if the new global consensus on ...
... consensus, nobody wanted to acknowledge that, in spite of all the rhetorical lip service, there has only been fragmentary progress in overcoming resistance to renewable energy. For the most part, the resistance persists, and to some ...
... consensus. At these conferences the delegates seem to talk about just everything, though usually while talking around the most explosive issues. A significant example of this was the climate conference that took place in July 2004 at ...
Contents
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The Unbroken Power of OneDimensional Thinking
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The Archimedean Point of the Breakthrough to Renewable Energy
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Index | 301 |
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