This widely used textbook is designed for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as others who have an interest in exploring energy resource options and technologies with a view toward achieving sustainability on local, national, and global scales. It clearly presents the tradeoffs and uncertainties inherent in evaluating and choosing sound energy portfolios and provides a framework for assessing policy solutions.
The second edition examines the broader aspects of energy use, including resource estimation, environmental effects, and economic evaluations; reviews the main energy sources of today and tomorrow, from fossil fuels and nuclear power to biomass, hydropower, and solar energy; treats energy carriers and energy storage transmission, and distribution; addresses end-use patterns in the transportation, industrial, and building sectors, and considers synergistic complex systems. This new edition also offers updated statistical data and references; a new chapter on the complex interactions among energy, water, and land use; expanded coverage of renewable energy; and new color illustrations. Sustainable Energy addresses the challenges of making responsible energy choices for a more sustainable future.
“At Iast, sustainabIe energy can be taught from a single textbook—one that is baIanced, worldly, comprehensive, and challenging. Watch out, teachers! Science and engineering students are going to demand courses that use this book.”
—Robert Socolow, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
“This book with its references and links is an excellent source text for anyone considering a course on energy options for the future and for anyone else interested in understanding the science and argument which underlie the debate on energy options for a sustainable future.”
—R. John Sandeman, International Journal of Environmental Studies
About the AuthorJefferson W. Tester is Croll Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems at Cornell University.
|Elisabeth M. Drake is Emeritus Researcher at the MIT Energy Initiative.
|Michael J. Driscoll is Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT.
|Michael W. Golay is Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT.
|William A. Peters is Executive Director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT.
