Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet (Record no. 39178)
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| control field | OTLid0000980 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | MnU |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20241120064024.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780578867175 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MnU |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | MnU |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QH301 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QE1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QC21.3 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Thomas Murphy |
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| -- | Minneapolis, MN |
| -- | Open Textbook Library |
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| -- | Oakland, California |
| -- | eScholarship |
| -- | [2021] |
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| -- | ©2021. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
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| -- | text |
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| -- | computer |
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| -- | rdamedia |
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| -- | online resource |
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| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Open textbook library. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | I. Setting the Stage: Growth and Limitations -- II. Energy and Fossil Fuels -- III. Alternative Energy -- IV. Going Forward |
| 520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Where is humanity going? How realistic is a future of fusion and space colonies? What constraints are imposed by physics, by resource availability, and by human psychology? Are default expectations grounded in reality? This textbook, written for a general-education audience, aims to address these questions without either the hype or the indifference typical of many books. The message throughout is that humanity faces a broad sweep of foundational problems as we inevitably transition away from fossil fuels and confront planetary limits in a host of unprecedented ways—a shift whose scale and probable rapidity offers little historical guidance. Salvaging a decent future requires keen awareness, quantitative assessment, deliberate preventive action, and—above all—recognition that prevailing assumptions about human identity and destiny have been cruelly misshapen by the profoundly unsustainable trajectory of the last 150 years. The goal is to shake off unfounded and unexamined expectations, while elucidating the relevant physics and encouraging greater facility in quantitative reasoning. After addressing limits to growth, population dynamics, uncooperative space environments, and the current fossil underpinnings of modern civilization, various sources of alternative energy are considered in detail— assessing how they stack up against each other, and which show the greatest potential. Following this is an exploration of systemic human impediments to effective and timely responses, capped by guidelines for individual adaptations resulting in reduced energy and material demands on the planet’s groaning capacity. Appendices provide refreshers on math and chemistry, as well as supplementary material of potential interest relating to cosmology, electric transportation, and an evolutionary perspective on humanity’s place in nature. |
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| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | In English. |
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| -- | Description based on online resource |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Science |
| Form subdivision | Textbooks |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Earth Sciences |
| Form subdivision | Textbooks |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Physics |
| Form subdivision | Textbooks |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Murphy, Thomas W. |
| Relator term | author |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Open Textbook Library |
| Relator term | distributor |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/980">https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/980</a> |
| Public note | Access online version |
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