When Trucks Stop Running Energy and the Future of Transportation
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-...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
| Series: | Energy Analysis
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: Running on Empty
- When Trucks Stop Running, America Stops
- Shipping Makes the World Go Round
- Why You Should Love Trains
- Why You Should Love Trucks
- The Oiliness of Everything: Invisible Oil & Energy Payback Time
- Peak Oil and Transportation
- Distributing Drop-in Fuels: The Fastest Road to Something Else
- Post fossil fuels, if biomass is the “Answer to Everything”, is there enough?
- Hydrogen, the Homeopathic Energy Crisis Remedy
- Natural Gas – A bridge fuel to Where Exactly?
- Liquefied Coal: There goes the neighborhood, the water, and the air
- Who Killed the All-Electric Car?
- Can Freight Trains be Electrified?
- All-Electric trucks with Batteries or Overhead Wires
- Overview of the Electric Grid: Herding Lightning
- The Electric Grid trembles When Wind and Solar Join the High Wire Act
- The Electric Blues: Energy Storage for Calm and Cloudy Days
- Other Truck Stoppers: Mother Nature
- U.S. Energy Policy: Oil Wars and Drill-Baby-Drill to Keep Autos Running?
- Where Are We Headed?