'Greenhouse Solutions With Sustainable Energy' by Mark Diesendorf
'Greenhouse Solutions With Sustainable Energy' by Mark Diesendorf
Global warming is the hottest political issue of the day, and it is likely to become even more pressing over the coming years.This is a positive, proactive book that proposes a set of policies and strategies for implementing the most promising cleaner energy technologies by all spheres of government, business and community organisations. The book argues that despite being a coal and oil dependent country, Australia could achieve an ecologically sustainable energy system. All we need is the political will.
The book puts forward a set of policies and strategies for implementing the most promising clean energy technologies by all spheres of government, business and community organisations. Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy suggests that a mix of efficient energy use, renewable energy sources and natural gas (as a transitional fuel) offers a clean and feasible energy future for Australia.
The book is a comprehensive guide to sustainable energy systems and is structured in three sections:
* Introduction to the basic concepts and latest scientific evidence regarding global warming.
* Assessment of energy technologies, including coal, nuclear and more sustainable alternatives.
* Discussion of policies and strategies needed to overcome the non-technical barriers to renewable energies and energy efficiency.
In this book Dr. Diesendorf argues that:
* Ecologically sustainable energy technologies based on energy efficiency, renewable energy and natural gas are commercially available today, and that their implementation could halve Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions within a few decades.
* To implement these technologies, new policies must be developed and implemented by all three levels of government.
* The main barriers are neither technical nor economic, but rather our social institutions and the political power of the big greenhouse gas emitting industries: coal, oil, aluminium, cement and motor vehicles.
