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Our Climate and the Energy Problem

How our Energy Needs can be Covered in a Climate-Friendly Way
essentials

von: Klaus Stierstadt
9,99 €
Verlag:	Springer
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	02.12.2022
ISBN/EAN:	9783658383138
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

<div>This essential provides an overview of the changes in our climate, their causes and their consequences. Today, humanity's energy needs are largely met in ways that are harmful to the climate. The alternative to this, solar energy, would satisfy our needs thousands of times over. But this option is far too little used for mainly economic reasons. This essential then discusses the energy converters that can be used to make solar energy available. Some other modern energy sources, such as nuclear power, are either inadequate, still utopian, or otherwise environmentally harmful. An outlook shows that our energy problem could easily be solved with economic reason by global use of solar energy. The climate could thus still be stabilized in time.</div><div><br></div><p>This book is a translation of the original German 1<sup>st</sup> edition <i>Unser Klima und das Energieproblem </i>by Klaus Stierstadt, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.</p><div><br></div>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- The climate.- The carbon dioxide CO2.- The energy demand.- The sun.- The solar energy converters.- Non-solar energy sources.    

Autorenportrait

<div>Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.. Klaus Stierstadt is professor emeritus of physics at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and author of several physics textbooks. He was a member of the board of the German Physical Society as well as vice president of the University of Munich and is honorary senator of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His fields of work are radioactivity of the atmosphere, magnetism, phase transitions, neutron scattering and magnetohydrodynamics.</div><div><br></div>

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<p>This essential provides an overview of the changes in our climate, their causes and their consequences. Today, humanity's energy needs are largely met in ways that are harmful to the climate. The alternative to this, solar energy, would satisfy our needs thousands of times over. But this option is far too little used for mainly economic reasons. This essential discusses the energy converters that can be used to make solar energy available. Some other modern energy sources, such as nuclear power, are either inadequate, still utopian, or otherwise environmentally harmful. An outlook shows that our energy problem could easily be solved with economic reason by global use of solar energy. The climate could be stabilized in time</p>

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<p>This book is a translation of the original German 1<sup>st</sup> edition <i>Unser Klima und das Energieproblem </i>by Klaus Stierstadt, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com).</p>

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<p><b>The content</b></p>

The climate - The energy demand - The sun - Solar energy converters -Non-solar energy sources <p></p>

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<p><b>The target groups</b></p>

<p>Students of natural science, teachers of natural science subjects, people interested in climate and environment</p>

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<p><b>The author</b></p>

<p>Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.. Klaus Stierstadt is professor emeritus of physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and author of several physics textbooks. He was a member of the board of the German Physical Society as well as vice president of the University of Munich and is honorary senator of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His fields of work are radioactivity of the atmosphere, magnetism, phase transitions, neutron scattering and magnetohydrodynamics.</p>