Energy and the Missing Resource

A View from the Laboratory

By: I. Dostrovsky

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Paperback | 10 July 1989

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Energy and the Missing Resource provides a nontechnical analysis of present and future energy resources and their potential development to meet future demand. The prevailing impression in popular discussion of future energy supply is that a crisis will occur, sooner or later, owing to the exhaustion of present resources. In this informative and thought-provoking book, Professor Dostrovsky, who is a leading energy researcher, demonstrates that sufficient resources are available to meet all energy needs for the foreseeable future. However, this does not remove the threat of an energy-supply crisis. What is lacking - the missing resource - is the knowledge of how to use these resources in a practical and environmentally acceptable manner. The author argurs that long-term technical development will be necessary to ensure future energy sufficiency and that international cooperation on technical research, environmental impact, and energy use is needed now to prevent a succession of energy crises in the future. The book avoids technical jargon, and mathematics is kept to a minimum. All those involved with energy in a technical, business, or governmental policy capacity will find book essential and rewarding reading.

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"An excellent detailed review of the history and prognosis of world energy sources and demands...a superb primer for any serious student of world energy problems." Choice

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Published: 10th July 1989

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List of figures and tables
Preface
Introduction
Fossil fuels
Nuclear energy
The role of nuclear power
Renewable energy resources
Demand and substitution
The missing resources
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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