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Power Generation Technologies, 3rd Edition
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Power Generation Technologies, 3rd Edition

by Paul Breeze
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
462 pages
14h 36m
English
Newnes
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Chapter 2

Electricity Generation and the Environment

Abstract

The power industry has a major impact on the global environment, and awareness of this has grown steadily since the middle of the 20th century. Since then the effects of acid rain, of nuclear accidents and more recently of global carbon dioxide emissions on the environment have prompted major changes within the industry. Although the industry can adapt to mitigate these effects, power generation is such a large operation that will always have an impact on environmental conditions. This is inevitable if the world is to have electricity and it is impossible to imagine the global population deciding to do without the advances it has made possible. The best we can do is to find the optimum ...

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ISBN: 9780128182550