Energy and the Missing Resource: A View from the Laboratory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521319652)

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 formative and thought-provoking book, a leading energy researcher demonstrates that sufficient energy 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. Dostrovsky argues that long-term technical development will be needed to ensure future energy sufficiency, and that international cooperation on technical research, environmental impact, and energy use is needed now to avoid a succession of energy crises in the future.

Author: I. Dostrovsky
ISBN-10: 052131965X
ISBN-13: 9780521319652
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/24/1989
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d