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Nuclear 2.0 : Why a Green Future Needs Nuclear Power.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : UIT Cambridge Ltd., 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (112 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781906860660
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 333.79
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Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. How we got to where we are -- 2. The carbon challenge -- 3. The N-word -- 4. The case against: nuclear accidents and radiation -- 5. Next generation: Nuclear 2.0 -- 6. The spectre of climate change -- 7. All of the above -- Notes -- Index -- Also published by UIT.
Summary: By making use of the latest in world energy statistics, author Mark Lynas shows that with wind and solar still at only about one percent of global primary energy, looking to renewable energy as a solution to deliver all the world's power is a dangerously delusional concept. Moreover, with no possibility reducing the world's energy usage-when the developing world is fast extricating itself from poverty and adding the equivalent of a new Brazil to the global electricity consumption each year-additional solutions are needed. This book then details how the antinuclear movement of the 1970s and 1980s succeeded only in making the world more dependent on fossil fuels. Instead of making the same mistake again, this book shows how all those who want to see a low-carbon future need to join forces by backing an ambitious proposal for a combined investment in wind, solar, and nuclear power.
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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. How we got to where we are -- 2. The carbon challenge -- 3. The N-word -- 4. The case against: nuclear accidents and radiation -- 5. Next generation: Nuclear 2.0 -- 6. The spectre of climate change -- 7. All of the above -- Notes -- Index -- Also published by UIT.

By making use of the latest in world energy statistics, author Mark Lynas shows that with wind and solar still at only about one percent of global primary energy, looking to renewable energy as a solution to deliver all the world's power is a dangerously delusional concept. Moreover, with no possibility reducing the world's energy usage-when the developing world is fast extricating itself from poverty and adding the equivalent of a new Brazil to the global electricity consumption each year-additional solutions are needed. This book then details how the antinuclear movement of the 1970s and 1980s succeeded only in making the world more dependent on fossil fuels. Instead of making the same mistake again, this book shows how all those who want to see a low-carbon future need to join forces by backing an ambitious proposal for a combined investment in wind, solar, and nuclear power.

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