When Trucks Stop Running

Name: When Trucks Stop Running
Brand: Springer International Publishing AG
SKU: 9783319263731
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Energy and the Future of Transportation

Autor: A. J. Friedemann

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Editura: Springer International Publishing AG

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In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vul...

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Autor

A. J. Friedemann

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2015

Pagini

132

EAN

9783319263731

ISBN

3319263730

Enbook ID

09925361

Editura

Springer International Publishing AG

Greutate

250

Dimensiuni

233 x 154 x 14

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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.

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