Energy and the Environment |
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| Author:
| Fay, James A.
Golomb, Dan S. |
| Series title: | MIT-Pappalardo Series in Mechanical Engineering |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-515092-6 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2002 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $93.95 |
Book Description:
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This is a textbook for upper level undergraduate and first year graduate students, as well as professionals in the fields of energy and environmental sciences and technology. The text develops the scientific and technological background for understanding how rapidly growing use of energy threatens the degraduation of the natural environment at local, regional, and global scales. Also detailed are the newer technological developments that can mitigate these environmental...
More DescriptionThis is a textbook for upper level undergraduate and first year graduate students, as well as professionals in the fields of energy and environmental sciences and technology. The text develops the scientific and technological background for understanding how rapidly growing use of energy threatens the degraduation of the natural environment at local, regional, and global scales. Also detailed are the newer technological developments that can mitigate these environmental effects,especially electric power and transportation industries. This book aims to equip engineering and science majors and professionals with the basic factual knowledge needed to develope solutions to theses environmental problems.