
Generating Electricity in a Carbon-Constrained World
Description
Key Features
- Clearly explains short term and long term options
- Contributions from renowned scholars and academics from around the world
- Case-studies from all over the world
Readership
Table of Contents
Part One: Short Term Options
1. Carbon and climate change
2. Coal
3. Clean Coal and Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technology
4. Emission trading
5. Creating markets for tradable permits in the emerging carbon era
6. Global Action on Climate Change
7. The Impossibility of Staunching World CO2 EmissionsPart Two: Renewable Energy Solutions
8 & 9. Energy efficiency
10. Nuclear Energy
11. Wind power
12. Solar power
13. Hydro-electric
14. Geothermal energy
15. Biofuels
16. Per capita carbon allowancesPart Three: Case studies
16. The economics, politics and mechanics of meeting California's carbon mandate
17. ISOs, regional electricity markets, and greenhouse gas policy
18. Life after coal?
19. British electricity industry's carbon challenge
20 & 21. China
22. Beyond Fossil Fuels
Product details
- No. of pages: 632
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2009
- Published: September 16, 2009
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080889719
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Fereidoon Sioshansi

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