Energy And Society

This book discusses how energy efficiency benefits the global environment, national energy security, local pollution mitigation, natural resource conservation, and utility bill reduction. In addition, this book provides many hands-on skills and knowledge to identify and develop energy efficiency projects.

The way in which our society exists, operates and develops is strongly influenced by the way in which energy is produced and consumed. No process in Industry can be performed without sufficient supply of energy, and without Industry there can be no production of commodities on which the existence of modern Society depends.

by Eric S. Swanson (Author)
Text is structured as a narrative with rich historical context and little mathematics
The central ideas of modern physics are introduced in a non-mathematical, accessible, and historically motivated manner
Covers many issues of current global interest, including climate change, pollution, population growth, nuclear power, renewable energy and the dangers of electromagnetic and nuclear radiation
Students are challenged to question their own beliefs and to develop realistic fact-based worldviews
Explains the differences between science and pseudoscience