Energy for the 21st century : a comprehensive guide to conventional and alternative sources / Roy L. Nersesian.
List of Tables and Figures: Top world ethanol producers -Contribution of biomass -Employment, productivity and safety -Shareholdersʼ percentage -Employment patterns of jack-ups and semisubmersibles -Historical development of refining processes -Write-up of OPEC reserves -Worldʼs largest oil fields -...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Are we on Easter Island?
- Easter Island
- The Mathematics of Extinction
- Progress Is Our Most Important Product
- The Unremitting Rise in Population
- The Case of Double Exponential Growth
- A Lesson in Fish
- From Hunting to Farming
- Energy Depletion
- 2. Electricity and the utility industry
- It Takes Energy to Make Energy
- Energy for Electricity Generation
- Enhancing Efficiency in Electricity Generation
- Early History of Electricity
- Generating Electricity
- Generating Electricity Commercially
- System Operation
- Methods of Rate Regulation
- Operating Models of an Era of Deregulation/Liberalization
- Utility Pools
- When Demand Exceeds Supply
- The Real Lesson of California
- 3. Biomass
- Yesterdayʼs Fuel
- Todayʼs Fuel: China, India, Indonesia, Brazil
- Biomass as a Motor Vehicle Fuel
- Biomass for Electricity Generation
- Biogas Tomorrowʼs Fuel
- 4. Coal
- The First Energy Crisis
- The Origin and History of Coal
- Coal and the Industrial Revolution
- Coal and Railroads
- Coal and Steel
- The Rise and Gall of King Coal
- Types of Coal
- Coal Mining
- Coal Today
- Role of Coal Among the Major Consumers
- The Case Against Coal
- Clean Coal Technologies
- Eliminating Coal Not So Easy
- 5. The story of big oil
- History of Lighting
- History of Oil
- Enter John D. Rockefeller
- Enter Marcus Samuel
- Spindletop
- Spindletop and Shell.
- The Emergence of Oil as a Strategically Vital Commodity
- The Era of the Seven Sisters
- Opening Up the Middle East
- Early Attempts at Oil Price Controls
- Enter Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
- Exit the Key Players
- Shareholders and Stakeholders
- Development of Saudi Arabiaʼs Oil Fields
- The Shoes Begin to Fall
- The Next Shoe to Fall
- The Birth of OPEC
- The 1973 Oil Crisis
- The Era of High Oil Prices
- The End of the Era of High Oil Prices
- The Era of Moderate Oil Prices
- Itʼs Not Oil Prices Any More, Itʼs Oil Security
- Oil and Diplomacy
- Oil and Environmentalists
- Role of Oil Companies After the Oil Crisis
- A Changing World
- Are Oil Companiesʼ Margins All That Great?
- The Future Role of Oil Companies
- 6. OIL
- The Earth as an Oil Manufacturer
- Formation of Oil
- Oil Exploration
- Drilling Rights
- Drilling Equipment
- Directional Drilling
- Offshore Drilling Rigs
- Evaluating a Well
- Completing a Well
- Moving the Oil to the Well
- Maintaining Reservoir Pressure
- Getting the Oil to a Refinery
- Tankers and Barges
- Oil Spills
- Refining
- Oil Reserves
- Are We on the Downward Slippery Slope?
- Comparison of Major Discoveries versus Consumption
- Was 2004 a Watershed Year?
- Synthetic Crude
- Challenge of Oil: The Automobile
- Alternative Fueled Vehicles
- Enhancing Engine Efficiency
- Internalizing an Externality
- Is This Politically Acceptable?
- 7. Natural gas
- Background
- Early History of Coal Gas
- History of Natural Gas
- The Battle Over Lighting
- Long Distance Transmission
- Federal Regulation
- The War Years
- Opening Up the Northeast
- Last Stop Before Total Regulation
- Unraveling Natural Gas Regulation
- The Road to Deregulation
- From Source to Consumer
- Natural Gas as a Fuel
- The European Version of Deregulation
- LPG: Prelude to LNG
- Liquefied Natural Gas
- Organizing and Financing the LNG Supply Chain
- LNG Carriers
- LNG Pricing
- The Future of LNG
- Gas to Liquids (GTL) Technology
- Methane from Coal
- Methane from Shale
- Methane Hydrates
- 8. Nuclear and hydropower
- Background
- What Does a 1,000 Megawatt Plant Mean?
- Physics of a Nuclear Reactor
- Nuclear Incidents and Accidents
- Three Mile Island Incident
- Chernobyl
- Weapons Proliferation
- Disposal of Spent Fuel
- Commercial Reactors
- Fusion Power
- Future of Nuclear Power
- Hydropower
- The Saga of the Hoover and the Glen Canyon Dams
- Aswan High Dam
- 9. Sustainable energy
- Meaning of Sustainability
- Geothermal Energy
- Wind Energy
- Objections to Wind Power
- Evaluating a Potential Site
- Financial Incentives
- Small Can Be Beautiful
- Solar Energy
- Thermal Solar Energy
- Photovoltaic Energy
- Economics of Solar Power
- Ocean Energy
- Sustainable Energy and Economic Development
- A Sustainable Energy Action Plan.
- 10. Looking toward the future
- The Hydrogen Economy
- Hydrogen Stores Electricity
- Tomorrow's World of Hydrogen
- Climate
- Climatic Changes During Recorded History
- Where is Climate Headed?
- Carbon Dioxide Conundrum
- Projecting the Future
- The Environment
- The U.S. Clean Air Acts
- The Montreal Protocol
- The Kyoto Protocol
- Efficiency and Conservation
- Energy Star Program
- Light Emitting Diodes (LED)
- CAFE Standards
- 11. An energy stragety
- Oil
- An Unlikely Projection
- Scarcity Playing Itself Out
- Increasing Supply
- Decreasing Demand
- Internalizing and Externality
- A Plan to Get Out of the Middle East
- Pollution
- We Need Time.