| 书目名称 | When Trucks Stop Running | | 副标题 | Energy and the Futur | | 编辑 | A.J. Friedemann | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Includes supplementary material: | | 丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Energy | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices of oil. Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone of civilization, hauling the goods that fulfill our every need and desire. Their powerful, highly-efficient diesel combustion engines are exquisitely fine-tuned to burn petroleum-based diesel fuel. These engines and the fuels that fire them have been among the most transformative yet disruptive technologies on the planet. Although this transportation revolution has allowed many of us to fill our homes with global goods even a past emperor would envy, our era of abundance, and the freight transport system in particular, is predicated on the affordability and high energy density of a single fuel, oil. This book explores alternatives to this finite resource including other liquid fuels, truck and locomotive batteries and utility-scale energy storage technology, and various forms of renewable electricity to support electrified transport. Transportation also must adapt to other challenges: Threats from climate change, financial busts, supply-chain failure, and transportation infrastructur | | 出版日期 | Book 2016 | | 关键词 | after peak oil; food miles; freight transport after peak oil; freight transport and alternative fuels; f | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26375-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-26373-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-26375-5Series ISSN 2191-5520 Series E-ISSN 2191-5539 | | issn_series | 2191-5520 | | copyright | The Author(s) 2016 |
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