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Efficient electricity use
BOOK
REVIEWS
Energy & an Age of Limited Availability and Delimited Applicability, by Philip Sporn. Pergamon Press Ltd, Oxford, 1976. Price: £2.75 (paperback). This 'visiting professorship' lecture warns of the unprecedented energy crisis which faces the USA (and the rest of the world), thereby threatening national safety, the economy and our way of life. Professor Sporn further admonishes the Federal Energy Administration of the USA for its ineffectual plans for coping with the crisis. The book then continues with the commonly accepted list of the major opportunities for saving energy, identifies worthwhile research areas, rejects the concept of the no-growth economy, suggests a long-term national energy programme and accepts that there is no reasonable alternative to an increased use of nuclear power to satisfy our energy needs. This 44-page book represents an easy to read but expensive statement suitable for non-scientific policymakers.
Efficient Electr&ity Use, edited by Craig B. Smith. Pergamon Press Inc., New York, 1976. Price: £10 (flexi cover). This practical handbook should be of considerable interest in our energyconstrained society--especially to engineers, designers, architects and energy managers. The 960 pages of factual knowledge appear without almost any theoretical reasoning but are profusely illustrated. SI units have been used almost exclusively throughout the text. Ninety-nine authors from 53 organisations in the USA, the UK, France, Belgium and West Germany have contributed. Inevitably, some duplication has occurred but, nevertheless, this volume represents good value for money. Lecturers will find in this compendium a wealth of case studies eminently suitable for presentation to their students. 157 Applied Energy (4) (1978)--© Applied Science Publishers Ltd, England, 1978 Printed in Great Britain
REVIEWS
Energy & an Age of Limited Availability and Delimited Applicability, by Philip Sporn. Pergamon Press Ltd, Oxford, 1976. Price: £2.75 (paperback). This 'visiting professorship' lecture warns of the unprecedented energy crisis which faces the USA (and the rest of the world), thereby threatening national safety, the economy and our way of life. Professor Sporn further admonishes the Federal Energy Administration of the USA for its ineffectual plans for coping with the crisis. The book then continues with the commonly accepted list of the major opportunities for saving energy, identifies worthwhile research areas, rejects the concept of the no-growth economy, suggests a long-term national energy programme and accepts that there is no reasonable alternative to an increased use of nuclear power to satisfy our energy needs. This 44-page book represents an easy to read but expensive statement suitable for non-scientific policymakers.
Efficient Electr&ity Use, edited by Craig B. Smith. Pergamon Press Inc., New York, 1976. Price: £10 (flexi cover). This practical handbook should be of considerable interest in our energyconstrained society--especially to engineers, designers, architects and energy managers. The 960 pages of factual knowledge appear without almost any theoretical reasoning but are profusely illustrated. SI units have been used almost exclusively throughout the text. Ninety-nine authors from 53 organisations in the USA, the UK, France, Belgium and West Germany have contributed. Inevitably, some duplication has occurred but, nevertheless, this volume represents good value for money. Lecturers will find in this compendium a wealth of case studies eminently suitable for presentation to their students. 157 Applied Energy (4) (1978)--© Applied Science Publishers Ltd, England, 1978 Printed in Great Britain