Introduction to Energy: Resources, Technology, and Society

This book provides a critical examination of the resources, market forces, and social impacts of modern energy production. The book addresses the dilemmas that have arisen from society's crucial dependence on energy and particularly fossil fuels, and explores the available alternative electricity producing technologies. The second edition has increased emphasis on those issues at the forefront of the current energy debate: energy sustainability, climate change, de-regulation of the power in...