Our Energy Future The Prospects for Developing and Using Sustainable Biofuels

Over the last 100 years we have exploited inexpensive fossil fuels to drive unprecedented growth in the economy, agriculture, and ultimately world population. With the expanding use of fossil fuels also came environmental degradation and more recently climate change. We now face a future that will b...

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Published inOur Energy Future p. 169
Main Authors Mayfield, Stephen P, Jones, Carla S
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of California Press 16.02.2016
Edition1
Subjects
Agriculture
Alternative fuels
Applied sciences
Biofuels
Biological sciences
Coal
Energy engineering
Engineering
Food
Food science
Foodstuffs
Fossil fuels
Fossils
Fuels
Industrial engineering
Liquid fuels
Manufacturing engineering
Organic foods
Paleobiology
Paleontology
Raw materials
Renewable energy
Sustainable agriculture
Taphonomy
Transportation
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Summary:Over the last 100 years we have exploited inexpensive fossil fuels to drive unprecedented growth in the economy, agriculture, and ultimately world population. With the expanding use of fossil fuels also came environmental degradation and more recently climate change. We now face a future that will be very different than what we saw in the last 100 years. Part of this future will be brought about by diminishing fossil fuel resources, and with that decline an ever-increasing cost of fossil energy, and therefore an increasing cost of food. Another part of this future will also be shaped by climate change
ISBN:0520278771
9780520278776