Energy: Resources, technologies and the environment

This book is aimed at students and professionals as well as anyone interested in having a global vision and perspective on energy.

Over the past two centuries the use of coal, and later oil and gas, to produce energy has allowed an unprecedented increase in the standard of living. Over the past fifty years the development of nuclear energy has given access to an even more powerful source of energy and more recently there has been a revival of interest in renewable energy sources.

This new e...