Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century

✍ Scribed by Bruce Usher

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 221
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book is a primer for readers of all levels on the coming energy transition and its global consequences. Bruce Usher provides a concise yet comprehensive explanation for the growth in wind and solar energy; the trajectory of the transition from fossil fuels to renewables; and the implications for industries, countries, and the climate.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
PREFACE Setting the Record Straight
1. Renewable Energy in the Twenty-First Century
2. Energy Transitions: Fire to Electricity
3. The Rise of Renewables
4. Renewable Wind Energy
5. Renewable Solar Energy
6. Financing Renewable Energy
7. Energy Transitions: Oats to Oil
8. The Rise of Electric Vehicles
9. Parity
10. Convergence
11. Consequences
12. No Time to Lose
Appendix A. Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE)
Appendix B. The Transition to Renewable Energy
GLOSSARY
NOTES
INDEX

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