商品簡介
The Encyclopedia of Alternative Energy and Shale Gas a comprehensive depository of all information relating to the scientific and technological aspects of the world's energy. The book contains 76 articles broken into seven sections it covers Wind, Solar, Geothermal, Hydropower, Batteries and Fuel Cells, Renewable Energey, and Shale Gas. Written by a committee of the world's leading energy experts, the encyclopedia will combine decades of knowledge and experience working with an exhaustive list of energy sources and technologies. Most topics will be prepared as short digestible entries making it easy for users to find the required information quickly, without the need to search through long articles.
作者簡介
Dr. Jay H. Lehr received the nation's first Ph.D. in Ground Water Hydrology from the University of Arizona in 1962, following a degree in Geological Engineering from Princeton University and a few years in the U.S. Navy's Civil Engineering Corps in the Western Pacific. After Graduate school he taught both at the University of Arizona and Ohio State University before serving 25 years as head of the Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers where he was editor of the Journals of Ground Water and Ground Water Monitoring Review. During that period he continued to perform academic sponsored research in many areas of environmental science. Since 1994 Dr. Lehr has been Science Director of the Heartland Institute, a free market think tank located in Chicago, IL, which, through its many publications, provides objective technical information to elected officials throughout the United States.
Jack Keeley is the former Chief of Groundwater Research at the USEPA Kerr Water Resource Research Laboratory in Ada, Oklahoma.
