Managing Global Warming

Managing Global Warming: An Interface of Technology and Human Issues discusses the causes of global warming, the options available to solve global warming problems, and how each option can be realistically implemented. It is the first book based on scientific content that presents an overall reference on both global warming and its solutions in one volume. Containing authoritative chapters written by scientists and engineers working in the field, each chapter includes the very latest research and references on the potential impact of wind, solar, hydro, geo-engineering and other energy technologies on climate change.

With this wide ranging set of topics and solutions, engineers, professors, leaders and policymakers will find this to be a valuable handbook for their research and work.

• Presents chapters that are accompanied by an easy reference summary
• Includes up-to-date options and technical solutions for global warming through color imagery
• Provides up-to-date information as presented by a collection of renowned global experts

Energy engineers, researchers, graduate students, professors and lecturers in Engineering, scientists and engineers working in energy, industrialists and engineers working in future energy developments

A INTRODUCTION
1. Why do we have Global Warming?

B FOSSIL FUELS AND NUCLEAR ENERGY
2. What is the situation with fossil fuels for the foreseeable future?
3. Nuclear energy fusion and fission(U or Th); what are the problems stopping whole sale investment and what of the future? How dependent are we on nuclear power today?

C RENEWABLES
4. The Potential of Renewable Energies: (a) hydroelectric; possible overall % effect; (b) solar; possible overall % effect; (c) wind; possible overall % effect; (d) storing energy; possible overall % effect. (e) other methods: tidal power; sea currents; waves; energy from space

D GEO-ENGINEERING
5. Geo-engineering at sea: CO2 removal
6. Geo-engineering of the atmosphere: (a) albedo engineering
7. Geo-engineering on earth: (a) CO2 removal, reforestation; possible overall % effect: (b) CO2 removal, charring biomass and burying it to lock up C; possible overall % effect: (c) CO2 removal, grow biomass, burn it for energy and sequester the CO2; possible overall % effect

E ELECTERIC CARS, INDUSTRY AND FARMING
8. Electric cars; possible overall % effect
9. Industry, develop plant derived plastics; possible overall % effect
10. Greener farming; possible overall % effect
11. Greater efficiency and tougher emissions standards; possible overall % effect F LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTIONS
12. Local Actions: Cleaner Power Plants. Electricity production produces 50% of world’s CO2 and industry (plastics, steel, cement) takes it up to 78% G OTHER ISSUES
13. The Politics of Global Warming
14. The Economics of Solving Global Warming
15. Summing up and areas where CO2 reduction will prove very difficult: use of aviation fuel, space heating, cement and steel making