商品描述
This book is a Primer about energy generation and its use in our industrial society. A majority understand that the energy generation that supports our current way of life also threatens major environmental impact. Though our situation is not imminently apocalyptic, we will have our lives significantly compromised unless we begin to deal with the challenges that our energy generation is causing. With a basic technical understanding of energy, society can make more informed decisions about its generation and use. The book introduces energy. It describes how it's generated, where it's used and considerations for making it sustainable and decarbonized. Today, 80% of energy continues to be from carbon-containing fossil fuels - coal, oil and natural gas . The book sketches how this fossil energy is converted into the work used for electricity, transportation and food. It describes how sustainable energy from sun and wind is more efficient and potentially cheaper. However, sustainable energy is difficult to store, which is a major unresolved problem in the transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy. The book provides the scientific tools to begin to understand such problems and discusses approaches to make the energy system decarbonized. This book does not tell the reader which options to take, rather it provides the literacy to choose.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書是一本關於能源生成及其在我們工業社會中使用的入門書。大多數人都明白，支持我們當前生活方式的能源生成同時也威脅著環境。雖然我們的情況並不會立即導致世界末日，但如果我們不開始應對能源生成所帶來的挑戰，我們的生活將會受到重大影響。擁有基本的能源技術理解，社會可以對能源的生成和使用做出更明智的決策。
本書介紹了能源。它描述了能源是如何生成的、在哪裡使用以及使其可持續和去碳化的考量。如今，80%的能源仍然來自含碳的化石燃料——煤、石油和天然氣。本書勾勒了這些化石能源是如何轉化為用於電力、交通和食品的工作。它描述了來自太陽和風的可持續能源如何更高效且潛在更便宜。然而，可持續能源難以儲存，這是從化石燃料轉向可持續能源過程中一個主要未解決的問題。本書提供了理解這些問題的科學工具，並討論了使能源系統去碳化的方法。本書並不告訴讀者應該選擇哪些選項，而是提供了選擇的能力。
作者簡介
Edward L. Cussler, Distinguished Institute Professor at the University of Minnesota, was educated at Yale (BE, 1961) and Wisconsin (PhD, 1965). After thirteen years at Carnegie-Mellon University, Cussler joined the University of Minnesota in 1980. He has written over 250 articles and five books, including Diffusion, Bioseparations, and more recently, Chemical Product Design. Cussler, who served the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) as President, was awarded the Colburn (1975) and Lewis (2001) awards, and was the Institute Lecturer (2014). He holds honorary doctorate degrees from the Universities of Lund (2002) and Nancy (2007). Cussler is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His current research interest is the production of ammonia from stranded wind energy, that is, "putting wind energy in a bottle." Abhoyjit S. Bhown is a Senior Program Manager at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, California. He holds degrees in chemical engineering (BS 1982, Auburn; MS 1983, California Davis; and PhD 1990, Minnesota) and in mathematics (MS 1989, Minnesota). At EPRI since 2007, he leads a team of scientists and engineers focused on carbon management, including novel power cycles, CO2 capture, and CO2 storage. The effort spans computational, laboratory, bench, field pilot studies, and engineering designs. Prior to EPRI, he founded and led start-up companies for separations technologies, and worked at research institutes and energy companies. Most of his research has focused on separations technologies.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
愛德華·L·卡斯勒（Edward L. Cussler）是明尼蘇達大學的傑出研究所教授，他在耶魯大學獲得學士學位（BE, 1961）和在威斯康辛大學獲得博士學位（PhD, 1965）。在卡內基梅隆大學工作了十三年後，卡斯勒於1980年加入明尼蘇達大學。他已撰寫超過250篇文章和五本書籍，包括《擴散》（Diffusion）、《生物分離》（Bioseparations），以及最近的《化學產品設計》（Chemical Product Design）。卡斯勒曾擔任美國化學工程師學會（AIChE）會長，並獲得科爾本獎（Colburn, 1975）和路易斯獎（Lewis, 2001），以及2014年的學會講座。他擁有倫德大學（Lund, 2002）和南希大學（Nancy, 2007）的榮譽博士學位。卡斯勒是美國科學促進會的會士，並且是國家工程院的成員。他目前的研究興趣是利用被浪費的風能生產氨，即「將風能裝進瓶子裡」。
阿博伊吉特·S·博恩（Abhoyjit S. Bhown）是位於加利福尼亞州帕洛阿爾托的電力研究所（EPRI）的高級計劃經理。他擁有化學工程學位（學士，1982年，奧本大學；碩士，1983年，加州大學戴維斯分校；博士，1990年，明尼蘇達大學）和數學碩士學位（1989年，明尼蘇達大學）。自2007年以來，他在EPRI領導一支專注於碳管理的科學家和工程師團隊，涵蓋新型發電循環、二氧化碳（CO2）捕集和二氧化碳儲存。這項工作包括計算、實驗室、基準、現場試點研究和工程設計。在加入EPRI之前，他創立並領導了專注於分離技術的初創公司，並在研究機構和能源公司工作。他的大部分研究集中在分離技術上。
