The Simple Physics of Energy Use, Second Edition
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 September 2025
- ISBN 9780198948933
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 246x189 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 92 b/w and colour images 700
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Short description:
This new edition examines three key aspects of energy use: environmental control in buildings, transportation of people and goods, and manufacturing. It provides a clear, big-picture perspective that highlights significant factors in understanding the physics of energy use.
MoreLong description:
Our modern standard of living depends on the transformation of energy from sources like fossil fuels, atomic nuclei, the sun, and wind into usable forms. This book examines the fundamental physics behind energy use that is crucial in our daily lives.
Amid widespread discussions about the potentially harmful and irreversible impact of CO&&&8322 emissions on climate change, is the potential of renewable energy sources like solar and wind to replace fossil fuels. The Simple Physics of Energy Use 2nd Edition questions the feasibility of this transition. What does fundamental physics reveal about the practicality of this solution? Is it realistic to eliminate CO&&&8322 emissions rather than reduce them? Inspired by modern media debate, this book provides thought-provoking problems based on real-world proposals.
Examining three key aspects of energy use in modern life: environmental control in buildings, transportation of people and goods, and manufacturing, this new edition provides a comprehensive overview of the subject. It also offers an in-depth exploration of electrical power generation and the use of simple algebra provides a clear, big-picture perspective that highlights significant factors in understanding the physics of energy use. This is a key text for readers interested in the origins and applications of the energy we rely on.
Review from previous edition Rez takes a practical, physics-based approach to answering some of the most challenging questions about energy use and what we should be doing to increase sustainability, and provides a thorough quantitative analysis of the most important energy policy challenges we face.
Table of Contents:
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Energy and Society
Part I Controlling the Indoor Environment
Buildings
Electrical Power Generation: Fossil Fuels
Nuclear Power Generation
Electrical Power Distribution
Electrical Power Generation: Renewables-Solar and Wind
Electrical Power Generation: Hydroelectricity, Tides, and Pumped Storage
Part II Moving People and Things Around
Transportation: Fuel Energies
Ground Transportation: Road and Rail
Air Transportation
Ground Transportation: Ships
Part III Making Stuff
Materials that Come from the Earth
Agriculture: Things that Are Grown
Embodied Energy and Energy Return on Investment
Summary-What Should Be Done?
Appendix A Energy Used by Different Countries, from the BP Statistical Review
Appendix B Thermodynamic Relations
Appendix C Ground Source Heat Pumps
Appendix D1
Appendix D2 Ultimate Efficiency of Photovoltaic Cell
Appendix D3 Maximum Power of Photovoltaic Cell
Appendix E Betz's Law
Appendix F Hydrogen Leakage
Appendix G1 Optimal Airspeeds
Appendix G2 The Rocket Equation
Appendix H Units Factors of 10
