Energy : the solar-hydrogen alternative. Time available for the research, development and building of a new energy base.

Bockris, J. O'M.

1977

898
CIENA

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Introduction. The exhaustion of fossiel fuels. Energy and living standards. The availability of various energy sources. Fossil fuels. Water power. Tidal power. Geothermal power. Wind power. The time of exhaustion of the earth's fossil fuels. Mathematical modes for predicting resource exhaustion time. The estimation of the exhaustion of fuel supply. The time needed to realise a major technological change. Limits to growth. Limits for the supply of atomic energy. Will there be enough fuel? dissipating heat, the possibility of explosion, pollutional hazards of atomic energy, time of building of atomic power stations. Solar. Summary on energy supply. The origin of limits to growth. Doom?. Speculations on possible courses of living standards. The negative side of short-term (up to 2000 A.D.) situation.

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GENERAL; FUENTES DE ENERGIA RENOVABLES; AGOTAMIENTO DE RECURSOS; INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO; COMBUSTIBLES FOSILES; MODELOS MATEMATICOS; ESTILOS DE VIDA;