Renewables or Nuclear: Which Should Lead in Curbing Climate Change?
暫譯: 可再生能源或核能：哪一種應該主導應對氣候變遷？
Lewis, Elmer E.
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商品描述
One of the most contentious issues facing policymakers in their efforts to curb climate change is the debate over whether renewable or nuclear energy should play a larger role, and to what extent both are needed, as well as how they can be integrated into electric grids. This book addresses these critical issues directly, providing balanced analyses and detailing the challenges these energy sources face. The primary challenges for renewable energy, particularly wind and solar, include intermittency, grid instability, and concerns regarding land use. Conversely, nuclear energy faces challenges related to high reactor costs and public concerns regarding accidents, waste management, and the potential for weapons proliferation. The book also explores other relevant energy forms, energy storage solutions, the potential of smart grids and artificial intelligence, and the necessity of electrifying transportation and other economic sectors to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Renewables or Nuclear: Which Should Lead in Curbing Climate Change? addresses the complex technical, economic, and political issues surrounding energy sources. The book is intended for a broad audience concerned about climate change, but lacking extensive knowledge of renewable or nuclear energy sources. It aims to explain the costs and benefits of each energy source and their roles in combating climate change. No technical background is required to understand the content, making this book a valuable reference for advanced high school or undergraduate college courses focused on climate change.
- Addresses the complex technical, economic, and political issues surrounding energy and climate change;
- Specifically examines one of the most contentious issues policymakers face--a debate over renewable and nuclear energy;
- No technical background is required to understand the material covered in the book.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
在政策制定者努力減緩氣候變遷的過程中，最具爭議的議題之一是關於可再生能源與核能應該扮演更大角色的辯論，以及兩者需要的程度，還有如何將它們整合進電網中。本書直接探討這些關鍵問題，提供平衡的分析並詳細說明這些能源來源所面臨的挑戰。可再生能源，特別是風能和太陽能，面臨的主要挑戰包括間歇性、電網不穩定以及土地使用的顧慮。相對而言，核能則面臨與高反應堆成本以及公眾對於事故、廢物管理和武器擴散潛力的擔憂相關的挑戰。本書還探討了其他相關的能源形式、能源儲存解決方案、智慧電網和人工智慧的潛力，以及為了在2050年實現碳中和而必須電氣化交通運輸和其他經濟部門的必要性。《可再生能源或核能：哪一種應該主導減緩氣候變遷？》探討了圍繞能源來源的複雜技術、經濟和政治問題。本書旨在針對對氣候變遷感到關切但對可再生或核能來源缺乏深入了解的廣泛讀者群。它旨在解釋每種能源來源的成本和效益及其在應對氣候變遷中的角色。理解本書內容不需要技術背景，使其成為針對氣候變遷的高級高中或大學本科課程的寶貴參考資料。
- 探討圍繞能源和氣候變遷的複雜技術、經濟和政治問題；
- 具體檢視政策制定者面臨的最具爭議的議題之一——可再生能源與核能的辯論；
- 理解本書所涵蓋的材料不需要技術背景。
作者簡介
Elmer Lewis, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. He received his B.S. (1960) in Engineering Physics and a M.S. (1962) and Ph.D. (1964) in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps and then as a Ford Foundation Fellow and Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining Northwestern's faculty in 1968. In addition to serving as Chair of Northwestern's Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1987 to 1997, he held appointments as Visiting Professor at the University of Stuttgart and Guest Scientist at the Nuclear Research Center at Karlsruhe, Germany. He has served as a consultant at Argonne, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, as well as for several industrial firms. His research has focused on the physics, safety, and reliability of nuclear systems. Professor Lewis has taught a wide range of mechanical and nuclear engineering courses and, for 15 years, organized a week-long industrial seminar, "Safety of Light-Water Cooled Nuclear Reactors." A Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, he received its Mathematics and Computation Distinguished Service, the Eugene P. Wigner Reactor Physics, and the Arthur Holly Compton Awards. He has chaired the OECD/NEA Experts Group on Three-Dimensional Radiation Transport Benchmarks and was a member of the Science Council for the Department of Energy's Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors. Professor Lewis has held several offices in the American Nuclear Society, including Chair of its Mathematics and Computation Division. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Nuclear Science and Engineering. He has been the primary supervisor for more than twenty Ph.D. students. His work has been cited over 8,000 times in the science and engineering literature.Seven books are among his more than 200 publications.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
埃爾默·路易斯（Elmer Lewis），博士，是西北大學麥考密克工程學院的機械工程名譽教授。他於1960年獲得伊利諾伊大學香檳分校的工程物理學學士學位，並於1962年和1964年分別獲得核工程碩士和博士學位。他曾在美國陸軍軍械部服役，之後擔任福特基金會研究員及麻省理工學院核工程助理教授，並於1968年加入西北大學的教職。除了在1987年至1997年間擔任西北大學機械工程系主任外，他還曾擔任斯圖加特大學的訪問教授及德國卡爾斯魯厄核研究中心的客座科學家。他曾在阿貢國家實驗室、洛斯阿拉莫斯國家實驗室和橡樹嶺國家實驗室擔任顧問，並為多家工業公司提供諮詢服務。他的研究專注於核系統的物理、安全性和可靠性。路易斯教授教授了廣泛的機械和核工程課程，並在15年間組織了一個為期一週的工業研討會，主題為「輕水冷卻核反應堆的安全性」。作為美國核學會的會士，他獲得了數學與計算傑出服務獎、尤金·P·維格納反應堆物理獎和亞瑟·霍利·康普頓獎。他曾擔任經濟合作與發展組織/核能署三維輻射傳輸基準專家小組的主席，並是美國能源部輕水反應堆先進模擬聯盟的科學委員會成員。路易斯教授在美國核學會擔任過多個職位，包括數學與計算部門的主席。他還擔任期刊《核科學與工程》的編輯委員會成員。他是超過二十位博士生的主要指導教授。他的研究工作在科學和工程文獻中被引用超過8000次。他的出版物超過200篇，其中包括七本書。
