Alternative Energy - Black, Brian

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Résumé :
An exceptionally timely volume that weighs the costs and benefits of alternative energy sources and their implications for reducing energy consumption. As this book makes clear, civilization cannot long continue to ride on an oil slick. Worldwide, many people have come to see dependence on coal, and especially on oil, not only as unsustainable, but as profoundly destabilizing, both environmentally and politically. While ever-increasing demands continue to be placed on mainstream energy sources, recurring attempts have been made to generate power in alternative ways. After retracing some of these efforts, this succinct and historically informed volume explores the ongoing debate over alternative energy that gathered strength in the 20th century, showing how that debate mirrors larger attitudes toward energy and consumption. Like other volumes in this series, Alternative Energy is designed to provide material for student reports and debate arguments. It is an outstanding sourcebook for those interested in investigating the problems and prospects of alternative fuels....

Biographie:
Brian Black has been a college professor since 1992 at Kansas Christian College and at Penn View Bible Institute. He received an MS from Northeastern University, an MA from Clark Summit University, and a PhD from Greenwich University. Black's first book, The Holiness Heritage, gives the formation and history of the Holiness Movement throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has four children and lives with his wife in central Pennsylvania.

Sommaire:

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Conceiving of Alternative Energy
1 Human Society's Need for Energy
2 The Industrial Revolution and Humans' High-Energy Existence
3 Against the American Grain: Paths Taken, Paths Declined
4 The 1970s Initiate an Energy Transition
5 Assessing Renewable and Alternative Energy Technologies
6 Redefining Alternatives
Appendix 1: Summaries of U.S. Legislation Provisions Related to Alternative Energy
Appendix 2: President Jimmy Carter's Speech Concerning Energy, April 18, 1977
Appendix 3: President Jimmy Carter: The Crisis of Confidence Speech, July 15, 1979
Appendix 4: Former Vice President Al Gore at New York University, July 17, 2008
Bibliography
Index