While everyone wants energy that is clean, cheap, and secure, these goals often conflict: traditional fossil fuels tend to be cheaper than alternative fuels, but they are hardly clean or (in the case of oil) secure. This timely book provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the issues as...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: An Overview from 30,000 Feet -- 1 The Three Conflicting Goals of Energy Policy -- 2 The End of Cheap Oil? -- 3 Oil Security in an Increasingly Insecure World -- 4 Climate Change and the Search for Clean Energy -- 5 Climate Change and the Difficult...

"Human activity has disrupted the natural balance of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and is causing climate change. Burning fossil fuels and deforestation result directly in about 9 gigatons of carbon (GtC) emissions per year against the backdrop of the natural carbon flux -- emission and...

Human activity has disrupted the natural balance of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and is causing climate change. Burning fossil fuels and deforestation result directly in about 9 gigatons of carbon (GtC) emissions per year against the backdrop of the natural carbon flux -- emission and...