Physics and the environment

• Tác giả: Kyle Forinash
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1681744926
• ISBN-13: 978-1681744933
• ISBN-13: 978-1681744957
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 333.79 Energy
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (various pagings) : , illustrations (some color), maps.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 161257
• Chủ đề: 1. Energy conservation; 2. Energy consumption--Climatic factors; 3. Energy consumption--Environmental aspects; 4. First law of thermodynamics; 5. Human ecology; 6. Physics; 7. Second law of thermodynamics; 8. Environmental Physics & Clean Technology; 9. Geophysics

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

Physics and the Environment directly connects the physical world to environmental issues that the world is facing today and will face in the future. It shows how the first and second laws of thermodynamics limit the efficiencies of fossil-fuel energy conversions to less than 100%, while also discussing how clever technologies can enhance overall performance. It also extensively discusses renewable forms of energy, their physical constraints and how we must use science and engineering as tools to solve problems instead of opinion and politics.