Climate Change And Renewable Energy: The Transition To A Low Carbon World
by Martin J. Bush /
2019 / English / PDF
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of the global climate change impacts caused by the widespread and continuing use of fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas, which results in enormous damage to the global environment, biodiversity, and human health. The key to a transition to a low carbon future is the rapid and large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies in power generation, transport and industry (combined with carbon capture and storage), coupled with super energy-efficient building design and construction. Reviewing the key renewable energy technologies: solar photovoltaics, wind power, hydropower, biomass, and geothermal energy, the book also discusses distributed energy systems: roof top solar and minigrids, which are a vital part of the global solutionparticularly in regions of the world without access to electricity. It also reveals how the major oil companies and petrochemical conglomerates have systematically attempted to manufacture doubt and uncertainty about global warming and climate change, and continue to block the commercialization of solar energy and wind power, and impede the electrification of the transport sector. Lastly, the book introduces a theory-of-change approach to substantially reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050, and sets out realistic steps that people can take now to help make a difference.
