Green Energy and Technology
Alan J. Sangster
Energy for a Warming
World
A Plan to Hasten the Demise of Fossil Fuels
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Alan J. Sangster, PhD, CEng, FIET
Heriot-Watt University
School of Engineering and Physical Science
Edinburgh EH14 4AS
United Kingdom
a.j.sangster@hw.ac.uk
ISSN 1865-3529
e-ISSN 1865-3537
ISBN 978-1-84882-833-9
e-ISBN 978-1-84882-834-6
DOI 10.1007/978-1-84882-834-6
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To Emily
I trust you will not have cause, one day,
to castigate my generation for leaving
an impoverished planet for yours
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Preface
In December 2007 I was motivat