'Energise! is a book that every aspiring sustainability consultant and architect with green leanings should be forced to read...a refreshingly pragmatic, scientific view of the use of energy in our society...It is impressive that this is so astute and up to date.'
Blueprint Magazine

From the introduction: “If the world could be more thoughtful about energy supply, we could all afford to be thoughtless about our personal use of energy.”

The authors deliver a powerful treatise which, rather than disputing the nature and extent of climate change, analyses man's response to it. Why is that man has so far failed to deliver an intelligent response to the problem?

Energise! is the second in our series of intelligent contemporary discussions entitled Beautiful Specials, named in respectful memory of the great Penguin Specials.

James Woudhuysen is visiting Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester, and a contributor to Computing magazine. He read physics at the University of Sussex, and at the Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex, did postgraduate research in the political economy of nuclear energy. After a spell in journalism and consulting, he worked for the Henley Centre for Forecasting, London, and went on to head worldwide market intelligence at Philips Consumer Electronics, the Netherlands, before returning to the UK. His website is www.woudhuysen.com. Joe Kaplinsky is pursuing postgraduate research in chemical biology at Imperial College London. He read theoretical physics at the University of Manchester, staying there to do experimental research in low temperature physics. He then took masters degrees in structural molecular biology (Birkbeck, University of London) and protein and membrane chemical biology (Imperial). On becoming a patent analyst, he wrote about a wide range of energy technologies, from the handling of nuclear waste, the liquefaction of coal, gas turbine generators and drilling for oil through to the management of power in consumer electronics.

Details

• ISBN 9781905636273
• Published 22nd January 2009
• Size: Paperback
• Pages: 576
• RRP: £12.99

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