This volume provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to energy, covering basic concepts, possibilities, ethical issues, and potential consequences of energy.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Publisher’s Note.
Introduction.
Contributors.
1: Aerobic Cellular Respiration.
2: Air Conditioning.
3: Alternative Energy.
4: Ampère, André-Marie.
5: Animal Power.
6: Atomic Energy Commission.
7: Batteries.
8: Biodiesel.
9: Biomass Energy.
10: Boilers.
11: Breeder Reactors.
12: Building Envelope.
13: Capacity (Electricity).
14: Cellulosic Ethanol.
15: Chernobyl.
16: China Syndrome (Nuclear Meltdown).
17: Clausius, Rudolf.
18: Climate and Weather.
19: Climate Neutrality.
20: Coal and Energy Production.
21: Cogeneration and Electricity Generation.
22: Cold Fusion.
23: Communication to Garner Support for Energy Development.
24: Computers and Energy Use.
25: Corn Ethanol.
26: Dams.
27: Daylighting.
28: Demand-Side Management (DSM).
29: Diesel, Rudolf.
30: Einstein, Albert.
31: Electric Grids.
32: Electric Potential.
33: Electricity Energy Transmission, Secondary.
34: Embodied energy.
35: Energy and Power.
36: Energy Conservation.
37: Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
38: Energy Intensity.
39: Energy Payback.
40: Energy Policy.
41: Energy Poverty.
42: Energy Storage Techniques.
43: Enthalpy.
44: Entropy.
45: Exergy.
46: External Combustion Engine.
47: Faraday, Michael.
48: Flex-Fuel Vehicles (FFV).
49: Flywheels.
50: Fossil Fuels.
51: Franklin, Benjamin.
52: Frequency.
53: Fuel Cells and Energy Efficiency.
54: Fundamentals of Energy.
55: Gas Energy Transmission.
56: Gasoline and Other Petroleum Fuels.
57: Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy.
58: Geothermal Energy.
59: Gibbs, Josiah Willard.
60: Green Buildings.
61: Green Energy Certification.
62: Greenhouse Gases and Human Industry.
63: Heat Transfer.
64: Helmholtz, Hermann von.
65: Hertz, Heinrich.
66: High-Intensity Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and Energy Conservation.
