Soft Energy Paths

Author : Amory B. Lovins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : OCLC:232612660

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Soft Energy Paths by Amory B. Lovins Pdf

Author : Amory Bloch Lovins,Anthony J. Parisi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Energy conservation
ISBN : 0909313075

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Energy Strategy by Amory Bloch Lovins,Anthony J. Parisi Pdf

Author : David B. Brooks,Oliver M. Brandes,Stephen Gurman
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849770125

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Making the Most of the Water We Have by David B. Brooks,Oliver M. Brandes,Stephen Gurman Pdf

In the last century water policies relied on the construction of massive infrastructure in the form of dams, pipelines, and complex centralized treatment plants to meet human demands. These facilities brought tremendous benefits, but they also had serious and often unanticipated social, economic and environmental costs. Demand for water is one of the major challenges of the current century, but past approaches are no longer sufficient.

Author : Bruce J Berne,Giovanni Ciccotti,David F Coker
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814496056

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Classical and Quantum Dynamics in Condensed Phase Simulations by Bruce J Berne,Giovanni Ciccotti,David F Coker Pdf

The school held at Villa Marigola, Lerici, Italy, in July 1997 was very much an educational experiment aimed not just at teaching a new generation of students the latest developments in computer simulation methods and theory, but also at bringing together researchers from the condensed matter computer simulation community, the biophysical chemistry community and the quantum dynamics community to confront the shared problem: the development of methods to treat the dynamics of quantum condensed phase systems. This volume collects the lectures delivered there. Due to the focus of the school, the contributions divide along natural lines into two broad groups: (1) the most sophisticated forms of the art of computer simulation, including biased phase space sampling schemes, methods which address the multiplicity of time scales in condensed phase problems, and static equilibrium methods for treating quantum systems; (2) the contributions on quantum dynamics, including methods for mixing quantum and classical dynamics in condensed phase simulations and methods capable of treating all degrees of freedom quantum-mechanically. Contents:Barrier Crossing: Classical Theory of Rare but Important Events (D Chandler)Monte Carlo Simulations (D Frenkel)Molecular Dynamics Methods for the Enhanced Sampling of Phase Space (B J Berne)Constrained and Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics (G Ciccotti & M Ferrario)From Erying to Kramers: Computation of Diffusive Barrier Crossing Rates (M J Ruiz-Montero)Monte Carlo Methods for Sampling of Rare Event States (W Janke)Proton Transfer in Ice (D Marx)Nudged Elastic Band Method for Finding Minimum Energy Paths of Transitions (H Jónsson et al.)RAW Quantum Transition State Theory (G Mills et al.)Dynamics of Peptide Folding (R Elber et al.)Theoretical Studies of Activated Processes in Biological Ion Channels (B Roux & S Crouzy)The Semiclassical Initial Value Representation for Including Quantum Effects in Molecular Dynamics Simulations (W H Miller)Tunneling in the Condensed Phase: Barrier Crossing and Dynamical Control (N Makri)Feynman Path Centroid Methods for Condensed Phase Quantum Dynamics (G A Voth)Quantum Molecular Dynamics Using Wigner Representation (V S Filinov et al.)Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics Methods for Diffusion (D Laria et al.)and other papers Readership: Computational and statistical physicists. Keywords:Quantum;Molecular Dynamics;DynamicsReviews: “… this volume is a useful introduction to currently popular, and widely-used techniques in chemical and statistical physics. The authors are well-respected researchers in the field and the level is appropriate to graduate students and researchers.” Journal of Statistical Physics

Author : Mark Jaccard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108479370

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The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success by Mark Jaccard Pdf

Shows readers how we can all help solve the climate crisis by focusing on a few key, achievable actions.

Author : Amory Lovins
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603583725

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Reinventing Fire by Amory Lovins Pdf

Imagine fuel without fear. No climate change. No oil spills, no dead coalminers, no dirty air, no devastated lands, no lost wildlife. No energy poverty. No oil-fed wars, tyrannies, or terrorists. No leaking nuclear wastes or spreading nuclear weapons. Nothing to run out. Nothing to cut off. Nothing to worry about. Just energy abundance, benign and affordable, for all, forever. That richer, fairer, cooler, safer world is possible, practical, even profitable-because saving and replacing fossil fuels now works better and costs no more than buying and burning them. Reinventing Fire shows how business-motivated by profit, supported by civil society, sped by smart policy-can get the US completely off oil and coal by 2050, and later beyond natural gas as well. Authored by a world leader on energy and innovation, the book maps a robust path for integrating real, here-and-now, comprehensive energy solutions in four industries-transportation, buildings, electricity, and manufacturing-melding radically efficient energy use with reliable, secure, renewable energy supplies.Popular in tone and rooted in applied hope, Reinventing Fire shows how smart businesses are creating a potent, global, market-driven, and explosively growing movement to defossilize fuels. It points readers to trillions in savings over the next 40 years, and trillions more in new business opportunities.Whether you care most about national security, or jobs and competitive advantage, or climate and environment, this major contribution by world leaders in energy innovation offers startling innovations will support your values, inspire your support, and transform your sense of possibility.Pragmatic citizens today are more interested in outcomes than motives. Reinventing Fire answers this trans-ideological call. Whether you care most about national security, or jobs and competitive advantage, or climate and environment, its startling innovations will support your values, inspire your support, and transform your sense of possibility.

Author : Amory B. Lovins,L. Hunter Lovins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037381840

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Brittle Power by Amory B. Lovins,L. Hunter Lovins Pdf

Author : Amory B. Lovins
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Nature
ISBN : PSU:000030142503

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Soft Energy Paths by Amory B. Lovins Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Energy development
ISBN : CORNELL:31924089474344

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A Reprint of Soft Energy Notes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles B. Yulish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037836330

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Soft Vs. Hard Energy Paths by Charles B. Yulish Pdf

Author : Paul David Wellstone
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0816643849

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Powerline by Paul David Wellstone Pdf

"Powerline describes the opposition of rural Minnesotans to the building of a high voltage powerline across 430 miles of farmland from central North Dakota to the Twin Cities suburbs. Convinced that the safety of their families and the health of their land was disregarded in favor of the gluttonous energy consumption of cities, the farmer-led revolt began as questioning and escalated to rampant civil disobedience, peaking in 1978 when nearly half of Minnesota's state highway patrol was engaged in stopping sabotage of the project."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Jamie Swift,Keith Stewart
Publisher : Between The Lines
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781896357881

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Hydro by Jamie Swift,Keith Stewart Pdf

"Nothing is going to go wrong." -Mike Harris, 2001 Privatization of power soon became one of the biggest political disasters in Ontario history. Hydro reveals a train wreck that was decades in the making. First there was blind faith in the nuclear option, steeped in ecological arrogance. Then came the promise of marketplace magic. Jamie Swift and Keith Stewart tell the tale of how it unfolded. It's a dramatic story of the greed, intrigue, and resistance that led to the dismantling of Canada's largest crown corporation. A crucial part of the story is how Ontario ignored thirty years of green arguments for conservation and renewable energy. Based on interviews with former premiers, Hydro insiders, and grassroots activists, Hydro will intrigue anyone wondering how to keep the lights on without frying the planet.

Author : Ernst U.von Weizsacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134177615

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Factor Four by Ernst U.von Weizsacker Pdf

Since the industrial revolution, progress has meant an increase in labour productivity. Factor Four describes a new form of progress, resource productivity, a form which meets the overriding imperative for the future (sustainability). It shows how at least four times as much wealth can be extracted from the resources we use. As the authors put it, the book is about doing more with less, but this is not the same as doing less, doing worse or doing without. In 1972, the Club of Rome published Limits to Growth, which sent shock waves around the world by arguing that we were rapidly running out of essential resources. This Report to the Club of Rome offers a solution. It lies in using resources more efficiently, in ways which can already be achieved, not at a cost, but at a profit. The book contains a wealth of examples of revolutionizing productivity, in the use of energy; from hypercars to low-energy beef; materials, from sub-surface drip irrigation to electronic books, transport, video conferencing to CyberTran, and demonstrating how much more could be generated from much less today. It explains how markets can be organized and taxes re-based to eliminate perverse incentives and reward efficiency, so wealth can grow while consumption does not. The benefits are enormous: profits will increase, pollution and waste will decrease and the quality of life will improve. Moreover, the benefits will be shared: progress will no longer depend on making ever fewer people more productive. Instead, more people and fewer resources can be employed. While for many developing countries the efficiency revolution may offer the only realistic chance of prosperity within a reasonable time span. The practical promise held out in this book is huge, but the authors show how it is up to each of us, as well as to businesses and governments, to make it happen.

Author : Ruven Fleming,Kaisa Huhta,Leonie Reins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004465442

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Sustainable Energy Democracy and the Law by Ruven Fleming,Kaisa Huhta,Leonie Reins Pdf

Sustainable Energy Democracy and the Law offers a legal account of the concept of sustainable energy democracy. The book explains what the concept means in a legal context and how it can be translated into concrete legal instruments.

Author : Ottmar Edenhofer,Ramón Pichs Madruga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Climate change mitigation
ISBN : 1139248707

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Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation by Ottmar Edenhofer,Ramón Pichs Madruga Pdf

This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SRREN) assesses the potential role of renewable energy in the mitigation of climate change. It covers the six most important renewable energy sources - bioenergy, solar, geothermal, hydropower, ocean and wind energy - as well as their integration into present and future energy systems. It considers the environmental and social consequences associated with the deployment of these technologies and presents strategies to overcome technical as well as non-technical obstacles to their application and diffusion. SRREN brings a broad spectrum of technology-specific experts together with scientists studying energy systems as a whole. Prepared following strict IPCC procedures, it presents an impartial assessment of the current state of knowledge: it is policy relevant but not policy prescriptive. SRREN is an invaluable assessment of the potential role of renewable energy for the mitigation of climate change for policymakers, the private sector and academic researchers.