Energy Autonomy

Energy Autonomy

"Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy" is a 2007 book written by Hermann Scheer.

For 200 years industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap fossil fuels. But continued reliance has had some adverse social and environmental consequences. The solution, explains Scheer, is to make the transition to renewable energy and distributed, decentralized energy generation. Scheer argues that this is a model that has been proven, technologically, commercially and politically. Much progress with renewable energy commercialization has already been made in Europe where the renewable energy industry is a multi-billion Euro industry with high growth rates. [ [http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/printstory;jsessionid=8B1A3627348AC4A6BC0D94214B1776D6?id=47503 The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy] ]

Dr Hermann Scheer is a physicist, a member of the German Bundestag (Parliament), President of EUROSTAR (the European Association for Renewable Energy) and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy. [ [http://www.dea.org.au/node/144 Book Review: Energy Autonomy. The economic, social and technological case for renewable energy] ]

ee also

*Energy security and renewable technology
*List of books about energy issues

References

External links

* [http://www.earthscan.co.uk/Portals/0/Files/Sample%20Chapters/9781844073559.pdf Part 1 of the book]


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