Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1
- A Changing Planet
- 1.1 Earth’s Beginnings
- 1.2 Early Primitive Life
- 1.3 Evolution of Earth’s Atmosphere
- 1.4 Aerobic Life
- 1.5 Earth’s Changing Climate
- 1.6 Earth’s Energy Endowment
- 1.7 The Human Era
- Chapter 2
- High-Energy Society
- 2.1 Energy and Power
- 2.2 Your Energy Servants
- 2.3 What Your Energy Servants Do
- 2.4 Who Are Your Energy Servants?
- 2.5 What Our Energy Servants Buy Us
- 2.6 Policy Issue: Measuring Quality of Life
- Chapter 3
- Energy: A Closer Look
- 3.1 Forms of Energy
- 3.2 Electrical Energy: A Closer Look
- 3.3 Quantifying Energy
- 3.4 Energy and Work
- 3.5 Work and Kinetic Energy
- 3.6 The Role of Friction
- 3.7 The Art of Estimation
- Chapter 4
- Energy and Heat
- 4.1 Heat and Internal Energy
- 4.2 Temperature
- 4.3 Heat Transfer
- 4.4 Heat Capacity and Specific Heat
- 4.5 Phase Changes and Latent Heat
- 4.6 Energy Quality
- 4.7 Entropy, Heat Engines, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
- 4.8 Energy Quality, End Use, and Cogeneration
- 4.9 Refrigerators and Heat Pumps
- Chapter 5
- Fossil Fuel Energy
- 5.1 The Origin of Fossil Fuels
- 5.2 The Fossil Fuels
- 5.3 Energy from Fossil Fuels
- 5.4 Fossil Energy Technologies
- 5.5 Fossil Fuel Resources
- 5.6 When Will We Run Out?
- 5.7 Policy Issue: Carbon Tax or Cap-and-Trade System?
- Chapter 6
- Environmental Impacts of Fossil Fuels
- 6.1 Is Carbon Dioxide a Pollutant?
- 6.2 Air Pollution
- 6.3 Other Environmental Impacts of Fossil Fuels
- 6.4 Policy Issue: The Clean Air Act
- Chapter 7
- Nuclear Energy
- 7.1 The Atomic Nucleus
- 7.2 Energy from the Nucleus
- 7.3 Nuclear Fission
- 7.4 Nuclear Reactors
- 7.5 Nuclear Radiation
- 7.6 Environmental and Health Impacts of Nuclear Radiation
- 7.7 The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Uranium Reserves
- 7.8 Policy Issue: Economics, Politics, and the Future of Nuclear Power
- Chapter 8
- Energy from Earth and Moon
- 8.1 The Geothermal Resource
- 8.2 Geothermal Energy Technology
- 8.3 Environmental Impacts of Geothermal Energy
- 8.4 Heat Pumps
- 8.5 Tidal and Ocean Energy
- Chapter 9
- Direct from the Sun: Solar Energy
- 9.1 The Solar Resource
- 9.2 Passive Solar Heating
- 9.3 Active Solar Heating
- 9.4 Solar Thermal Power Systems
- 9.5 Photovoltaic Solar Energy
- 9.6 Other Solar Applications
- 9.7 Environmental Impacts of Solar Energy
- 9.8 Policy Issue: Encouraging a Solar Industry
- Chapter 10
- Indirect from the Sun: Water, Wind, Biomass
- 10.1 Hydropower
- 10.2 Wind
- 10.3 Biomass
- 10.4 Other Indirect Solar Energy
- Chapter 11
- Hydrogen Futures?
- 11.1 Molecular Hydrogen and the Hydrogen Economy
- 11.2 Fusion
- 11.3 Hydrogen Futures?
- Chapter 12
- Keeping Warm: The Science of Climate
- 12.1 Keeping a House Warm
- 12.2 Keeping a Planet Warm
- 12.3 In the Greenhouse
- 12.4 Earth’s Energy Balance
- 12.5 A Tale of Three Planets
- Chapter 13
- Forcing the Climate
- 13.1 Climate Forcing
- 13.2 Climate Sensitivity
- 13.3 Feedback Effects
- 13.4 Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings
- 13.5 Carbon: A Closer Look
- Chapter 14
- Is Earth Warming?
- 14.1 Taking Earth’s Temperature
- 14.2 Other Climatic Changes
- 14.3 Are We to Blame?
- Chapter 15
- Future Climates
- 15.1 Modeling Climate
- 15.2 Climate Projections
- 15.3 Consequences of Global Climate Change
- 15.4 Climate Change and Society
- Chapter 16
- Energy and Climate: Breaking the Link
- 16.1 Carbon Emissions: Where We’re Going and Where We Need to Be
- 16.2 Carbon Capture and Sequestration
- 16.3 Alternative Energy Sources
- 16.4 Using Less Energy
- 16.5 Strategy for a Sustainable Future
- Glossary
- Properties of Materials
- Suggested Readings
- Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises
- Credits and Data Sources
- Index
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