When Trucks Stop Running

Author : A.J. Friedemann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319263755

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When Trucks Stop Running by A.J. Friedemann Pdf

In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices of oil. Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone of civilization, hauling the goods that fulfill our every need and desire. Their powerful, highly-efficient diesel combustion engines are exquisitely fine-tuned to burn petroleum-based diesel fuel. These engines and the fuels that fire them have been among the most transformative yet disruptive technologies on the planet. Although this transportation revolution has allowed many of us to fill our homes with global goods even a past emperor would envy, our era of abundance, and the freight transport system in particular, is predicated on the affordability and high energy density of a single fuel, oil. This book explores alternatives to this finite resource including other liquid fuels, truck and locomotive batteries and utility-scale energy storage technology, and various forms of renewable electricity to support electrified transport. Transportation also must adapt to other challenges: Threats from climate change, financial busts, supply-chain failure, and transportation infrastructure decay. Robert Hirsch, who wrote the “Peaking of World Oil Production” report for the U.S. Department of Energy in 2005, said that planning for peak world production must start at least 10, if not 20 years ahead of time. What little planning exists focuses mainly on how to accommodate 30 percent more economic growth while averting climate change, ignoring the possibility that we are at, or near, the end of growth. Taken for granted, the modern transportation system will not endure forever. The time is now to take a realistic and critical look at the choices ahead, and how the future of transportation may unfold.

Author : Alice J. Friedemann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030703356

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Life after Fossil Fuels by Alice J. Friedemann Pdf

This book is a reality check of where energy will come from in the future. Today, our economy is utterly dependent on fossil fuels. They are essential to transportation, manufacturing, farming, electricity, and to make fertilizers, cement, steel, roads, cars, and half a million other products. One day, sooner or later, fossil fuels will no longer be abundant and affordable. Inevitably, one day, global oil production will decline. That time may be nearer than we realize. Some experts predict oil shortages as soon as 2022 to 2030. What then are our options for replacing the fossil fuels that turn the great wheel of civilization? Surveying the arsenal of alternatives – wind, solar, hydrogen, geothermal, nuclear, batteries, catenary systems, fusion, methane hydrates, power2gas, wave, tidal power and biomass – this book examines whether they can replace or supplement fossil fuels. The book also looks at substitute energy sources from the standpoint of the energy users. Manufacturing, which uses half of fossil fuels, often requires very high heat, which in many cases electricity can't provide. Industry uses fossil fuels as a feedstock for countless products, and must find substitutes. And, as detailed in the author's previous book, "When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation," ships, locomotives, and heavy-duty trucks are fueled by diesel. What can replace diesel? Taking off the rose-colored glasses, author Alice Friedemann analyzes our options. What alternatives should we deploy right now? Which technologies merit further research and development? Which are mere wishful thinking that, upon careful scrutiny, dematerialize before our eyes? Fossil fuels have allowed billions of us to live like kings. Fueled by oil, coal, and natural gas, we changed the equation constraining the carrying capacity of our planet. As fossil fuels peak and then decline, will we fall back to Earth? Are there viable alternatives?

Author : William Henry Harrison Meserole,Charles Henry Sevin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Grocery trade
ISBN : UOM:39015081240379

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Effective Grocery Wholesaling by William Henry Harrison Meserole,Charles Henry Sevin Pdf

Author : Tom Bernard
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493124503

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The Running Evolution by Tom Bernard Pdf

Turning twenty-nine was not catastrophic for me. I had heard about people having midlife crises, even known some people who were either having one or just using it as an excuse for their behavior. But for me, I had only one concern: a good set of orders. Graduating from the Coast Guard Academy had obligated me to serve five years in the Coast Guard. My first four years were served in vessels: Two on a high-endurance cutter mostly in a "training or learning" mode and two as commanding officer of a small patrol vessel stationed on North Carolina's southern coast. Despite being prone to seasickness, I loved "the lure of the sea." While I did miss my wife (and now two children), getting under way has always been a wonderful experience, where anything could happen and often did. Following those four years afloat, I was assigned to be chief of recruitment for Northern California, Nevada, and Utah and was now nearing the end of a three-year assignment ashore. Three years ashore was about three years too many, and I was eager to get back to sea. It had been a good and challenging three years, living in fairly typical urban style: carpooling into the big city during the week and catching up on home duties during the weekend. Somehow, riding a desk, even a nice desk, did not compare to life on a ship. The Coast Guard did provide us some input to the assignment process, so after some thought, I decided to be bold on my assignment request and ask for a buoy tender in Hawaii as executive officer. I had no buoy tender or overseas experience, but our assignment card was commonly referred to as a "wish sheet," so I figured I'd wish. Executive officers were "second in command" on the ship, generally managing all the administrative aspects and running the day-to-day routine of the ship. Once under way, the commanding officer became the "man," often referred to as the "Old Man." On a small patrol vessel such as I had previously commanded, there was only one officer, so I had handled all the administrative aspects as well as the operational aspects. I would only need to learn the art of tending buoys if I was fortunate enough to get the assignment. I don't think it influenced my choice, but one of my long-distance childhood memories was a postcard my father received one day from a friend. I was only about eight or nine, but I remember the words and the picture, which is what really caught my attention: palm trees, white-sand beaches, and crystal-blue water. Keep in mind that there were no high-definition big-screen TVs in that day and few color TVs (none in our house), so a color postcard made quite an impression. The words also made an impression and burned themselves into my memory: "Sell the boat! Sell the house! Quit your job! Move to paradise, Hawaii!" If it had mentioned leaving the eight kids behind, my father might have jumped at the idea, but he was afraid to fly, so we were not moving to Hawaii at least not then. Lo and behold, twenty years later, I receive my first choice, and I was going to Hawaii! I didn't need to sell anything and was perfectly happy to bring my wife and young children. For some reason, the Coast Guard thought that after three years ashore, I might have forgotten all those semesters of navigation plus the subsequent four years I spent on ships practicing. So they sent me to a refresher course for two weeks in San Diego. Turns out I hadn't forgotten, and even if I had, it didn't matter. The only two things an executive officer needed to know in that era were how to balance the budget and how to catch the young seamen smoking pot. They didn't have courses for those things, and I didn't need them anyway; I was pretty good at both. But who can complain about two weeks in San Diego? Most of my classmates were naval officers of various ranks and levels of experience. As a "Coastie," I was never much impressed but enjoyed listening to the break discussions. One particular discussion during t

Author : Richard L. Johannesen
Publisher : Kendall Hunt
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0787258059

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Contemporary American Speeches by Richard L. Johannesen Pdf

Contains a collection of transcripts of contemporary American speeches, providing brief biographical information on the author of each speech, as well as critical and historical context. Includes CD-ROM with forty-two significant speeches.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Restraint of Trade Activities Affecting Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110742629

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Middle distillate fuels by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Restraint of Trade Activities Affecting Small Business Pdf

Author : Jerry Aaron
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781889243689

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Nevada's Teamsters, Truckers & Truck Stops by Jerry Aaron Pdf

This is a chronicle of trucking in the Silver State begins with the Teamsters of the late 1800s and follows the transportation trail as it progressed from bullwhacker to throttle jockey. It provides an insight into the building of Nevada-based trucking companies and is a narrative of early trucking The book will place the reader in the cab of a trucking time machine that covers over a hundred and fifty years of Nevada’s transportation industry.

Author : Derrick Jensen,Lierre Keith,Max Wilbert
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781948626408

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Bright Green Lies by Derrick Jensen,Lierre Keith,Max Wilbert Pdf

“This disturbing but very important book makes clear we must dig deeper than the normal solutions we are offered.”—Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia Works "Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic consumption and industrial expansion and survive as a species. The environmental debate, Derrick Jensen and his coauthors argue, has been distorted by hubris and the childish desire by those in industrialized nations to sustain the unsustainable. All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the Earth itself. We refuse to ask the right questions because these questions expose a stark truth—we cannot continue to live as we are living. To do so is suicidal folly. ‘Tell me how you seek, and I will tell you what you are seeking,’ the German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said. This is the power of Bright Green Lies: It asks the questions most refuse to ask, and in that questioning, that seeking, uncovers profound truths we ignore at our peril.”—Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of America: The Farewell Tour

Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Nonferrous metal industries
ISBN : UCAL:$B316708

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Accident Prevention in Nonferrous-metal Processing Plants: Injury statistics by United States. Bureau of Mines Pdf

Author : Bruce Outridge
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780986920561

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Running By The Mile by Bruce Outridge Pdf

Bruce shares his secrets for a successful trucking business in his book titled Running By The Mile. This book filled with important information on setting up your company and the importance of having the leadership and business mindset required to be successful in today's trucking industry will help any Owner Operator experienced or new in making the important decisions required for a successful operation.

Author : Gabe Earnest
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365834493

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The World of the Damned and Wicked by Gabe Earnest Pdf

This book contains short zombie stories people just trying to survive in a world of the dead and have to fear the living. What would they do to survive will the dead win and walk the earth or, will the living stand together and fight back and take back their world

Author : David Chandler,Jon Coaffee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317655992

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The Routledge Handbook of International Resilience by David Chandler,Jon Coaffee Pdf

Resilience is increasingly discussed as a key concept across many fields of international policymaking from sustainable development and climate change, insecurity, conflict and terrorism to urban and rural planning, international aid provision and the prevention of and responses to natural and man-made disasters. Edited by leading academic authorities from a number of disciplines, this is the first handbook to deal with resilience as a new conceptual approach to understanding and addressing a range of interdependent global challenges. The Handbook is divided into nine sections: Introduction: contested paradigms of resilience; the challenges of resilience; governing uncertainty; resilience and neoliberalism; environmental concerns and climate change adaptation; urban planning; disaster risk reduction and response; international security and insecurity; the policy and practices of international development. Highlighting how resilience-thinking is increasingly transforming international policy-making and government and institutional practices, this book will be an indispensable source of information for students, academics and the wider public interested in resilience, international relations and international security.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Trucks
ISBN : UOM:39015080124848

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Motor Truck Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Stanley
Publisher : David Stanley
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1566914124

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Moon Handbooks Tahiti by David Stanley Pdf

Explore the volcanic peaks of the Marquesas or shop in Papeete's vibrant marketplace. All the essentials to discovering this tropical paradise are presented in an easy-to-use format. Photos & illustrations. Maps.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2064 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:35112102287952

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Report by United States. Congress. House Pdf