List of contributors ........................................... ix
Preface ...................................................... xiii
David S. Ginley and David Cahen
Acknowledgments .............................................. xvii
Part 1 Energy and the environment: the global landscape
1 A primer on climate change ................................... 2
Melinda Marquis and Pieter Tans
2 The global energy landscape and energy security ............. 26
V.S. Arunachalarn and Anshu Bharadwaj
3 Sustainability and energy conversions ....................... 36
Franklin M. Orr, jr. and Sally M. Benson
4 Energy cost of materials: materials for thin-film
photovoltaics as an example ................................. 48
Ajay K. Gupta and Charles A.S. Hall
5 Economics of materials ...................................... 61
Lester B. Lave and Frank R. Field III
6 Global energy flows ......................................... 71
Richard Sassoon
7 Global materials flows ...................................... 81
Fridolin Krausmann
8 Carbon dioxide capture and sequestration .................... 90
Sally M. Benson
Part 2 Nonrenewable energy sources
9 Petroleum and natural gas .................................. 106
Russell R. Chianelli, Xiomara C. Kretschmer, and
Stephen A. Holditch
10 Advancing coal conversion technologies: materials
challenges ................................................. 117
Bryan D. Morreale, Cynthia A. Powell, and David R. Luebke
11 Oil shale and tar sands .................................... 127
James W. Bunger
12 Unconventional energy sources: gas hydrates ................ 137
Carolyn A. Koh, E. Dendy Sloan, Amadeu K. Sum, and
David T. Wu
13 Nuclear energy: current and future schemes ................. 147
Christopher R. Stanek, Robin W., Grimes, Cetin Unal,
Stuart A. Maloy, and Sara C. Scott
14 Nuclear non-proliferation .................................. 162
Siegfried S. Hecker, Matthias Englert, and Michael
C. Miller
15 Nuclear-waste management and disposal ...................... 178
Rodney C. Ewing and William J. Weber
16 Material requirements for controlled nuclear fusion ........ 194
Nathaniel J. Fisch, J. Luc Peterson, and Adam Cohen
Part 3 Renewable energy sources
17 Solar energy overview ...................................... 206
Miguel A. Contreras and Satyen Deb
18 Direct solar energy conversion with photovoltaic devices ... 216
David S. Ginley, Reuben Collins, and David Cahen
19 Future concepts for photovoltaic energy conversion ......... 238
Jean-François Guillemoles
20 Concentrating and multijunction photovoltaics .............. 257
Daniel J. Friedman
21 Concentrating solar thermal power .......................... 272
Abraham Kribus
22 Solar-thermoelectrics: direct solar thermal energy
conversion ................................................. 289
Terry M. Tritt, Xinfeng Tang, Qingjie Zhang, and Wenjie
Xie
23 Off-grid solar in the developing world ..................... 295
Tiffany Tong, Wali Akande, and Winston O. Soboyejo
24 Principles of photosynthesis ............................... 302
Johannes Messinger and Dmitriy Shevela
25 Biofuels and biomaterials from microbes .................... 315
Trent R. Northen
26 Biofuels from cellulosic biomass via aqueous processing .... 336
Jian Shi, Qing Qing, Taiying Zhang, Charles E. Wyman and
Todd A. Lloyd
27 Artificial photosynthesis for solar energy conversion ...... 349
Bon's Rybtchinski and Michael R. Wasielewski
28 Engineering natural photosynthesis ......................... 365
Huub J.M. de Groot
29 Geothermal and ocean energy ................................ 379
Jiabin Han, J. William Carey, and Bruce A. Robinson
30 Wind energy ................................................ 396
Michael Robinson, Neil Kelley, Patrick Moriarty, Scott
Schreck, David Simms, and Alan Wright
Part 4 Transportation
31 Transportation: motor vehicles ............................. 426
Jerry Gibbs, Ahmad A. Pesaran, Philip S. Sklad, and
Laura D. Marlino
32 Transportation: aviation ................................... 446
Robin G. Bennett, Linda A. Cadwell Stancin, William L.
Carberry, Timothy F. Rahmes, Peter M. Thompson, and
Jeanne C. Yu
33 Transportation: shipping ................................... 453
David S. Ginley
34 Transportation: fully autonomous vehicles Christopher ...... 462
E. Borroni-Bird and Mark W. Verbrugge
Part 5 Energy efficiency
32 Transportation: aviation ................................... 446
Robin G. Bennett, Linda A. Cadwell Stancin, William
L. Carberry, Timothy F. Rahmes, Peter M. Thompson, and
Jeanne C. Yu
33 Transportation: shipping ................................... 453
David S. Ginley
34 Transportation: fully autonomous vehicles .................. 462
Christopher E. Borroni-Bird and Mark W. Verbrugge
Part 5 Energy efficiency
35 Lighting ................................................... 474
Dandan Zhu and Colin J. Humphreys
36 Energy efficient buildings ................................. 491
Ron Judkoff
37 Insulation science ......................................... 509
Leon R. Glicksman and Ellann Cohen
38 Industrial energy efficiency: a case study ................. 520
Joe A. Almaguer
39 Green processing: catalysis ................................ 536
Ronny Neumann
40 Materials availability and recycling ....................... 549
Randolph Kirchain and Elisa Alonso
41 Life-cycle assessment ...................................... 565
Corrie E. Clark
Part 6 Energy storage, high-penetration renewables, and
grid stabilization
42 Toward the smart grid: the US as a case study .............. 578
S. Massoud Amin and Anthony M. Giacomoni
43 Consequences of high-penetration renewables ................ 594
Paul Denholm
44 Electrochemical energy storage: batteries and capacitors ... 608
M. Stanley Whittingham
45 Mechanical energy storage: pumped hydro, CAES, flywheels ... 624
Troy McBride, Benjamin Bollinger, and Dax Kepshire
46 Fuel cells ................................................. 637
Shyam Kocha, Bryan Pivovar, and Thomas Gennett
47 Solar fuels ................................................ 656
Christian Jooss and Helmut Tributsch
48 Solar thermal routes to fuel ............................... 675
Michael Epstein
49 Photoelectrochemistry and hybrid solar conversion .......... 692
Stuart Licht
Summary ....................................................... 711
David S. Ginley and David Cahen
Appendix A: Thermodynamics .................................... 715
Jennifer A. Nekuda Malik
Appendix В: Electrochemistry .................................. 718
Jennifer A. Nekuda Malik
Appendix C: Units ............................................. 721
Index ......................................................... 723
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