Innovative Energy Strategies for CO2 Stabilization

Discusses feasibility of increasingly efficient energy use and supply from renewable sources, for researchers/advanced students.

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Contains ten contributions addressing the feasibility of increasingly efficient energy use for limiting energy requirements as well as the potential for supplying energy from sources that do not introduce carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It discusses global warming, analyzes prospects for Earth-based renewables; addresses problems of transmission and storage of renewable energy; evaluates energy from nuclear fission; reviews the potential of fusion reactors; examines the harvesting of solar energy on satellites or lunar bases and beaming it to Earth using microwaves; and looks at the possibility of geoengineering. Of likely interest to engineers and physicists, industrial leaders and politicians interested in energy, and for students in advanced courses on energy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Robert G. Watts is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tulane University in Louisiana. His current research interests are in climate modeling, the socio-economic and political aspects of energy policy, and the physics of sea ice. His publications on these and other topics have appeared in Climatic Change, Journal of Geophysical Research and Nature as well as the mechanical engineering literature. Professor Watts is the author of Keep Your Eye on the Ball: Curveballs, Knuckleballs, and Fallacies of Baseball (with A. Terry Bahill; W. H. Freeman publishers, 1991, 2000) and is editor of Engineering Response to Global Climate Change (Lewis Publishers, 1997). He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and has been an ASME Distinguished Lecturer. Recently, he gave the prestigious George Hawkins Memorial Lecture at Purdue University.