Energy Lessons

by Martin Knox

Overview

A COURSE IN SPECTACULAR CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

FOR CURIOUS MATURE STUDENTS

Text questions with answers after every chapter.

The book engages with the science and technology of energy supply and consumption, in 41 easy 'lessons', with latest thinking in climate science. Each lesson has discussion with students of the physics of energy, energy technologies, dietary energy, climate theories, infrared radiation, pollution, nuclear energy and other topics from personal experience.

Can Australians tackle carbon dioxide the way they did previous pollution: smog, mercury, DDT, lead, petroleum, chlorofluorocarbons, radioactive fallout? Is the future of energy supply safe in the hands of capitalists, government and corporate leaders, whose interest is in profits and votes?

Images of climate change have enabled spectacular obeisance to renewable energy technology.

This is the tenth novel Martin Knox has published. He has worked in nuclear, oil and coal industries, taught senior science students and written textbooks about energy and climate science. He has distilled learnings from his career in energy and post-modern philosophy, for your instruction and enjoyment. This book has learnings essential to understanding of climate change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781763647213
Publisher:	Novel Ideas
Publication date:	08/31/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Martin Knox grew up on a farm in Somerset, England. He rode a horse and played rugby. He graduated as a chemical engineer from Birmingham University. His work with energy was in a nuclear power station, in petroleum engineering in Canada, in coal mine development and in transportation. He researched alternative systems of government at Imperial College, London. He became a high school teacher and wrote science textbooks with energy emphasis, published by the Queensland Department of Education.This book is his tenth book published. He has been writing fiction and satirical novels full-time since 2013: speculative, love, politics, crime, sport, totalitarianism, science and technology. He is involved in public policy-making, has proposed an underground railway for Brisbane, developed ideas for mitigating flooding of the Brisbane River and an anti-memoir of his spiritual enlightenment following Friedrich Nietzsche. He has written about the philosophy of climate science from a phenomenological viewpoint. He discusses current issues at U3A and has studied philosophy with students at the University of Queensland. He attends community development forums. He blogs ideas from his books and relates them to events in the news. He writes letters, plays the guitar, plays chess and walks in the park by the river where he lives. He reads classical novels, watches movies and enjoys The Big Bang Theory.He is divorced with children and grandchildren.