Energy: The Conservation Revolution

Energy: The Conservation Revolution

by John Gibbons
Energy: The Conservation Revolution

Energy: The Conservation Revolution

by John Gibbons

Paperback(Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)

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Overview

We try in this book to provide a detailed but readable, technical but accessible monograph on energy in the United States. We treat energy as a multidisciplinary challenge and apply the standard tools of economists, physicists, engineers, policy analysts, and, some might claim, fortune tellers. We hope that it will be used in classrooms of various types, and read by the general reader as well. That increased energy efficiency should be the first priority of energy policymakers is a conclusion, not an assumption, of our analysis. Many analysts have arrived at this conclusion while working separately on energy supply problems. The magnitude and scope of supply problems, primarily problems of high prices and environmental costs, lead one inexorably back to reducing demand growth as the first, most important step in any plausible energy future. We examine, in some depth, why much of the past literature on energy still points, fallaciously in our opinion, to high energy c- v Preface vi sumption futures. This is in Part I (called "A Short History of the Future"). We devote one-third of the book (Part II) to energy resources, their internal and external costs, and the quantities of energy to be derived from these resources. This analysis provides a context within which the economic and social value of energy conservation options can be assessed.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781461592112
Publisher: Springer US
Publication date: 12/28/2012
Series: Modern Perspectives in Energy
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981
Pages: 258
Product dimensions: 0.00(w) x 0.00(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Conservation Revolution.- One: A Chronicle of Forecasts.- Two: The Elements of Energy Demand.- Three: The U.S. in World Society.- Four: Liquids and Gases, The Crux of the Matter.- Five: Synthetic Energy Carriers—The Next Best Thing?.- Six: Conjunctures of Energy and Environment.- Seven: Energy Supply Policy.- Eight: Buildings—More Amenities, Less Energy.- Nine: The Crisis and the Car.- Ten: Industrial Sector Conservation.- Epilogue: Through the Straits.- References.
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