Wind Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment, 3rd Edition

Preface

The big questions: How do we use science and technology so that spaceship Earth will be a place for all life to exist? How do we address the two major problems of overconsumption and overpopulation? We are citizens of the planet Earth, and within your lifetime there will major decisions over the following: energy (including food), water, minerals, land, environment, and war (which I can state will happen with 99.9% probability). The previous statement on war was written over 30 years ago when Nelson first taught introductory courses on wind energy and solar energy. Since then, the United States has been involved in a number of armed conflicts, so the prediction on war was easily fulfilled.

Since the first edition was published, the population ...