Nuclear 2.0: why a green future needs nuclear power
by Lynas, Mark
By making use of the latest in world energy statistics, author Mark Lynas shows that with wind and solar still at only about one percent of global primary energy, looking to renewable energy as a solution to deliver all the world's power is a dangerously delusional concept. Moreover, with no possibility reducing the world's energy usage-when the developing world is fast extricating itself from poverty and adding the equivalent of a new Brazil to the global electricity consumption each year-addi…
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- Full title :Nuclear 2.0 : why a green future needs nuclear power / Mark Lynas.
Summary
By making use of the latest in world energy statistics, author Mark Lynas shows that with wind and solar still at only about one percent of global primary energy, looking to renewable energy as a solution to deliver all the world's power is a dangerously delusional concept. Moreover, with no possibility reducing the world's energy usage-when the developing world is fast extricating itself from poverty and adding the equivalent of a new Brazil to the global electricity consumption each year-additional solutions are needed. This book then details.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):UIT Cambridge
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (112 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781906860660, 1906860661
- oclc:ocn911609947
- LC Classification:TA170
- Dewey Decimal:333.823211
Table of Contents
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. How we got to where we are; 2. The carbon challenge; 3. The N-word; 4. The case against: nuclear accidents and radiation; 5. Next generation: Nuclear 2.0; 6. The spectre of climate change; 7. All of the above; Notes; Index; Also published by UIT.
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