Energy: Its Use and the Environment

by Roger A. Hinrichs and Merlin H. Kleinbach

Book Overview

What is the impact of such energy issues as global warming, radioactive waste, and municipal solid waste on the individual and society? ENERGY: ITS USE AND THE ENVIRONMENT answers these questions,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1111990832
• ISBN13: 9781111990831
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Energy: its use and the environment

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Best Textbook

I've been teaching at a community college for 16 years in the field of energy efficiency, Passive solar, building science, healthy homes, sustainability, green issues. I have used this book and its earlier versions in my classes because it gives the best science basis for energy. It is also written by a physics professor as a textbook, with review and questions at the end of each chapter. This book shows the "systems efficiency" of energy sources, which is the correct way to examine any proposed alternative energy. This is the way many of these topics is presented in other books. I like the book also because it starts at the beginning--physics--in the discussion of energy.

solid intro to energy

Energy provides comprehensive information on basic energy principles, electricity, fossil energy resources, nuclear power, renewable energy resources, energy conservation, and the impacts of energy use on the environment. While it contains all the requisite equations and problem sets, the concise, clear coverage of the environmental and policy issues surrounding our energy use really distinguishes this book from other energy texts.