Literature Research “Climate Change and the Power Industry”
For decades, the power industry has been concerning itself with the climate change. The first time that the working group "CO 2 and the Climate" researched the literature about this topic was as early as at the end of the 1980s. Owing to the constantly growing scientific findings, in 1991 and in 1995 updates of this literature research were made. Yet, this topic has become ever more important, and a new update was urgently required.
The present research is a completely revised edition which became necessary due to the large number of new findings. The objective of this study is a fundamental representation of the scientific contexts and the current level of the scientific climate discussion.
The literature research summarises the scientific foundations for the understanding of the climate changes, describes the natural and man-made factors of influence, the state of the art of the climate observations, the research programmes and the climate models with their most important results. After describing the repercussions of the climate change that have already set in or are prognosticated, the climate-relevant emissions and their contribution from the energy conversion are depicted.
The general possibilities for reducing the carbon dioxide, like reforestation, and the special activities of the power industry (efficiency improvement, renewable energies, CO 2 separation) are discussed at the end.
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Author of this literature research is Dr. Rüdiger Beising, who has been working in the energy industry for more than 30 years. Download here:
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