Energy transitions
Subtitle: history, requirements, prospects
By: Vaclav Smil.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780313381775; 9780313381782
Subjects: Renewable energy sources; Power resources
Description: Describes the history of modern society's dependence on fossil fuels and the prospects for the transition to a nonfossil world. Vaclav Smil makes it clear that this transition will not be accomplished easily, and that it cannot be accomplished within the timetables established by the Obama administration. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The book's rasison d'etre; title: Energy systems : their basic properties; title: Global transitions : universal patterns; title: National transitions : commonalities and particularities; title: Coming transitions : expectations and realities; title: Appendix : Global energy consumption, 1800-2008 [chart]