Energy options: Real economics and the solar-hydrogen system

Book · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:7032588

Om, J

The book focused on energy perspectives, exhaustion of fossil fuels, fluidization of coal, fission, fusion, solar energy, energy transmission over long distances, hydrogen economy, splitting of water, and materials problems. Topics covered included oil and its recovery, world reserves of coal, heating value of fossil fuels, coal gasification to methane, safety of fission reactors, the breeding of uranium fission products, disposal of nuclear wastes, the basic concepts of attaining fusion in plasma reactions, and transmission of energy through microwave radiation.

• OSTI ID: 7032588
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320301* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Industrial & Agricultural Processes-- Energy Sources
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COAL GASIFICATION
CONVERSION
DECOMPOSITION
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMICS
EFFICIENCY
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ENERGY CONVERSION
ENERGY SOURCES
ENERGY STORAGE
FISSION
FLUIDIZED BED
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GASIFICATION
HYDROLYSIS
LYSIS
MANAGEMENT
MICROWAVE RADIATION
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
RADIATIONS
REACTORS
SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION
SOLVOLYSIS
STORAGE
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT