How Long to Read Energy and the Environment

How Long Does it Take to Read Energy and the Environment?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 19 minutes to read Energy and the Environment by James A. Fay

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In an age of mounting energy crises, James A. Fay and Dan S. Golomb's Energy and the Environment offers a timely treatment of a critical problem in urban-industrial societies: the worldwide growth of energy use and the destructive relationship between this energy use and environmental degradation. This comprehensive text provides the scientific and technological background for understanding how our ever-increasing use of energy threatens the natural environment at local, regional, and global scales and how this threat could be mitigated by more efficient use of conventional energy sources and their replacement by renewable energy sources. Designed for upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate students, Energy and the Environment is essential reading for students and professionals in energy and environmental sciences and technology. Features · Describes energy technologies and their effectiveness in transforming fossil, nuclear, and renewable energy into useful mechanical or electrical power · Emphasizes the generation of electric power and the technological improvements that increase power generation efficiency and reduce air pollutant emissions from power plants · Examines the use of energy in the transportation sector and how vehicle design and engine efficiency improvements could reduce fuel use and pollutant emissions · Objectively surveys the field of renewable energy technologies and the prospects of increasing the share of renewable energy among all energy sources · Analyzes the energy sources of toxic emissions to air, water, and land and their effects on environmental quality at local and regional scales · Examines global climate change, energy consumption's contribution to it, and the salient technologies being developed to mitigate this effect · Equips engineering majors, science majors, and professionals with the basic facts needed to develop solutions to these pressing environmental problems

How long is Energy and the Environment?

Energy and the Environment by James A. Fay is 314 pages long, and a total of 79,756 words.

This makes it 106% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Energy and the Environment Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 15 minutes to read Energy and the Environment aloud.

What Reading Level is Energy and the Environment?

Energy and the Environment is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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