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  • Reflections on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident

    Toward Social-Scientific Literacy and Engineering Resilience

    Modifié par Joonhong Ahn, Cathryn Carson, Mikael Jensen, Kohta Juraku, Shinya Nagasaki, Satoru Tanaka ...
    Collections series Engineering (R0)
    This book focuses on nuclear engineering education in the post-Fukushima era. It was edited by the organizers of the summer school held in August 2011 in University of California, Berkeley, as part of a collaborative program between the University of Tokyo and UC Berkeley. Motivated by the particular relevance and importance of social-scientific approaches to various crucial aspects of nuclear ... En savoir plus

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  • Radical Abundance

    How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization

    par K. Eric Drexler ...
    K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology -- the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a lower cost. The result will shake the very foundations of our economy ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Global Catastrophic Risks

    Modifié par Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic ...
    A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided ideologies and totalitarian regimes have darkened an entire era or a region. Advances in technology are adding dangers of a new kind. It could happen again. In Global Catastrophic Risks 25 leading experts ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Nuclear 2.0

    Why a green future needs nuclear power

    par Mark Lynas ...
    Everything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming.While renewables will surely play an important part in our future energy strategy, expecting them to deliver all the world's power is dangerously delusional. In 2014, statistics showed that wind and solar power contributed only 1 per cent of ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Hydrogen: the energy transition in the making!

    par Pierre-Étienne Franc, Pascal Mateo ...
    Traduit par Margaret Ganong ...
    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing the gradual disappearance of fossil fuels figure among the challenges the planet must face in the years to come. Hydrogen can and indeed must play an important role in the energy transition. Since the technologies that allow for the safe production and use of hydrogen are now mature, this carbon-free molecule can enable the shift to a “clean” world. ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • A Vast Machine

    Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

    par Paul N. Edwards ...
    Collections series Infrastructures
    The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, “sound science.” In A Vast Machine ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • 2030

    Technology That Will Change the World

    par Rutger van Santen, Djan Khoe, Bram Vermeer ...
    Imagine living in 1958, and knowing that the integrated circuit--the microchip--was about to be invented, and would revolutionize the world. Or imagine 1992, when the Internet was about to transform virtually every aspect of our lives. Incredibly, this book argues that we stand at such a moment right now--and not just in one field, but in many. In 2030, authors Rutger van Santen, Djan Khoe, and ... En savoir plus

    $60.79 CAD

  • The Hydrogen Economy

    Opportunities and Challenges

    Modifié par Michael Ball, Martin Wietschel ...
    Responding to the sustained interest in and controversial discussion of the prospects of hydrogen, this book strives to reflect on the perspectives of a hydrogen economy in light of the global energy challenge, in particular the question of how to meet the growing demand for transport energy in the long term and how to secure sustainable energy for transportation. This book stands out from other ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

  • The Nuclear Enterprise

    High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Minimize Risks in Nuclear Weapons and Reactors

    Modifié par George P. Shultz, Sidney D. Drell ...
    A panel of expert contributors offers its views on the risks and rewards of the nuclear enterprise, focusing on issues of safety, regulation, and public perception. Contributors discuss specific experience and issues regarding the technical safety of weapons and power plants, management operations, regulatory measures, and the importance of accurate communication by the media. ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Find Your Path

    Unconventional Lessons from 36 Leading Scientists and Engineers

    par Daniel Goodman ...
    Scientists offer personal accounts of the challenges, struggles, successes, U-turns, and satisfactions encountered in their careers in industry, academia, and government.This insightful book offers essential life and career lessons for newly minted STEM graduates and those seeking a career change. Thirty-six leading scientists and engineers (including two Nobel Prize winners) describe the ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • An Achievable Solution Of Our Energy Problems

    par Joseph Fray ...
    Erroneous information is widespread regarding the meeting of national energy requirements. This book examines the various proposed energy sources in a factual manner and outlines a totally viable solution. ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Technology

    Modifié par Colin Hempstead, William Worthington ...
    Comprised of 395 essays arranged alphabetically, most on individual objects, artifacts, techniques, and products, this is an up-to-date reference work for all those involved in teaching or researching the history of twentieth-century technology, as well as the serious general reader.The core of each of the main entries is a technical description, within a historical narrative, of about 1,000 words ... En savoir plus

    $501.58 CAD