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This book engages in that debate, exploring the implications of shifting to greener, cleaner energy sources. This book offers an overview of the technical, economic and environmental issues to help scholars, professionals and policy makers involved in discussing those options.

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What will replace fossil fuel? Is there a way forward using renewable energy sources while avoiding nuclear power?This book argues that nuclear is unlikely to have much of a role in future, and shows that the pro- and anti-nuclear debate has absorbed too much time and energy over the years. This has been to the detriment of a more relevant, interesting and increasingly urgent debate over what sort of renewable/efficiency mix we need. This book engages in that debate, exploring the implications of shifting to greener, cleaner energy sources. Importantly, David Elliott argues there is no one green future. There is a range of possible options of various types and scales: we need to choose amongst them. This book offers an overview of the technical, economic and environmental issues to help scholars, professionals and policy makers involved in discussing those options.

Author Biography

David Elliott is Emeritus Professor of Technology Policy, Co-Director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at The Open University as well as editor of its journal Renew. He has been involved with the production of a range of OU courses in Design and Innovation, with an emphasis on how the design and innovation process can be steered towards the development of socially and environmentally appropriate technologies. His main research interests relate to the development of sustainable energy technologies, and in particular renewable energy based systems.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: What Are the Options? 2. Environmental Issues: Health, Safety and Social Impacts 3. Economic Issues: Green Energy Costs and Support Options 4. Integration Issues: Dealing with Intermittency 5. Policy Issues: How to Change the World 6. Sustainable Futures: What Kind of Mix? 7. Afterword

Long Description

What will replace fossil fuel? Is there a way forward using renewable energy sources while avoiding nuclear power?This book argues that nuclear is unlikely to have much of a role in future, and shows that the pro- and anti-nuclear debate has absorbed too much time and energy over the years. This has been to the detriment of a more relevant, interesting and increasingly urgent debate over what sort of renewable/efficiency mix we need. This book engages in that debate, exploring the implications of shifting to greener, cleaner energy sources. Importantly, David Elliott argues there is no one green future. There is a range of possible options of various types and scales: we need to choose amongst them. This book offers an overview of the technical, economic and environmental issues to help scholars, professionals and policy makers involved in discussing those options.

Details ISBN1137584424 Author David Elliott Language English ISBN-10 1137584424 ISBN-13 9781137584427 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2015 Short Title GREEN ENERGY FUTURES 2015/E Pages 120 Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Subtitle A Big Change for the Better Publication Date 2015-10-08 Edition 1st Imprint Palgrave Macmillan UK Release Date 2015-10-08 AU Release Date 2015-10-08 NZ Release Date 2015-10-08 Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 120 p. 1 illus. Edited by Leonard Holmes Birth 1968 Death 1908 Affiliation University of California, San Diego, USA Position Graduate Student Qualifications PhD Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Edition Description 1st ed. 2015 Alternative 9781349844388 DEWEY 333.707 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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