Energy in the 21st Century

by John R. Fanchi and Christopher J Fanchi

Book Overview

Energy may be the most important factor that will influence the shape of society in the 21st century. The cost and availability of energy significantly impacts our quality of life, the health of national economies, the relationships between nations, and the stability of our environment. What kind of energy do we want to use in our future? Will there be enough? What will the consequences of our decisions be? Every one of us has a stake in the answers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9812561951
• ISBN13: 9789812561954
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Insight into Energy Policy

As a high school science teacher for twenty five years, Energy in the 21st Century would be an excellent book for an advanced high school level class or an introductory college level class. The book has a good overview to energy policy and insight that a non-major science student could understand regarding the past and future energy policy in our country. This book will not only help every student and teacher to understand the problems of energy, but to help come up with possible solutions as to how these problems can be addressed. A good instructor should be able to take the information and give students insights creating thoughtful debates and the development of research projects. Energy in the 21st Century invokes the question of how do you balance our energy policies with what people perceive as reality. It stimulates the thought of balancing our country's energy policy with environmental concerns. The book doesn't offer answers to our energy concerns but gets the reader to investigate possible energy solutions. The Points to Ponder segments take science and relates it with economics and opens doors for the reader to think about how energy decisions have been made in the past and where it may be going in the future. Dr. Fanchi's book not only gives the basic structure and science of energy, but also questions were we're going with energy. It shares both positive and negative sides of the use of energy from both a science and environmental perspective. Energy in the 21st Century is well balanced in it's arguments and offers an investigating forecast into future events.

From A Practicing Electrical Engineer

This is an excellent general book for anyone who wishes a quick overview of the field of energy. It quickly presents the basic subjects related to energy in an way understandable to anyone with a high-school or above education and may be very effective in introducing high-school level readers to the field of energy and the problems involved with the various forms. Unlike many books on energy it does not try to push any particular energy agenda. It does not include a bunch of questionable statistics to try to obscure problems with the various forms of energy nor does it try to paint a too-rosy picture of any particular form. It is a good, quick, even- handed discussion of the production, use of and problems with energy in the various forms in which it is used. I would highly recommend it for: 1. The general reader who wants a easily understood book dealing with a subject that can be complicated. 2. Anyone who wants a quick read that gives a good even-handed overview of the field of energy. 3. An engineering student (or perhaps a future engineering student) who may want to know more about energy related engineering subjects. Also, even though this is a easy book to understand, I learned much from it even after having worked in an energy related field for many years. I would highly recommend this book.