The energy debate
Volume:
16.3
Publication date:
October 2007
Editors:
David Hawkins; Adam Donnan
The rhetoric around energy production and use is prevalent in the media and government policy. This issue discusses how to communicate and address the problems, debating the array of potential solutions for meeting future needs including renewable energy sources, nuclear, and energy from waste and the role of government policy.
- How scientists are helping the public to understand the C word - Mark Everard
- Catching some rays - Mark Everard
- Future directions for renewables - wind power - Peter Hulson
- Power plants - Claire Holman
- Second and third generation biofuels - Stuart Shales
- Air quality and CHP - Nicki Trought
- Energetic policies (interview: Robert Kyriakides) - David Hawkins
- Renewable energy from food waste - James Cherry
- Energy future: just deserts? - Gerry Wolff
- Riding the waves - Rachel Bowes
- Lunar energy and the Rotech Tidal Turbine - Andrea Tyrrell
- Time to reactivate? - John McNamara
- Managing radioactively contaminated land - Kanan Purkayastha
- Fusion as a future energy option - Chris Llewellyn Smith; David Ward
- Scanning the energy horizon: miracle or mirage? - David Hawkins
- Interview: George Monbiot - David Hawkins
- Obituary: Dr Jacob 'John' Rose - John Baines; Carolyn Roberts
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