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Towards a Cleaner Planet

Energy for the Future

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Jaime Klapp

    1. Departamento de Física, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, La Marquesa, Ocoyoacac, Edomex, México

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  2. Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota

    1. Departamento de Física, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, La Marquesa, Ocoyoacac, Edomex, México

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  3. José Federico Chávez Alcalá

    1. Laboratorio de Metalurgia, Esiqie- Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México, D.F.

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  • Covers the present status of traditional and alternative energy sources like fossil fuels,
  • nuclear, hydraulic, eolic, solar, and hydrogen cells

Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)

Part of the book sub series: Environmental Science (ENVSCIENCE)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIII
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  2. General Overview and Energy Efficiency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Energy for the Present and Future: A World Energy Overview

      • Jaime Klapp, Jorge L Cervantes-Cota, Luis C Longoria-Gandara, Ruslan Gabbasov
      Pages 3-34

    3. Energy, Present and Future

      • Juan Eibenschutz
      Pages 35-42

    4. Advanced Energy Conversion

      • Horst Hippler
      Pages 43-54

    5. Energy efficiency in Mexico — a bird’s eye view

      • Mariano Bauer
      Pages 55-63

    6. Energy efficiency and conservation in Mexico

      • Odón Demofilo de Buen-Rodríguez
      Pages 65-74

  3. Traditional Energy Resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Status of the Mexican Electricity Generation

      • Gustavo Alonso
      Pages 77-86

    3. Thermoeconomic Study of CCGT Plants

      • Dolores Duran, Salvador Galindo
      Pages 87-97

    4. CO2 Capture for Atmosphere Pollution Reduction

      • Rosa-Hilda Chávez, Javier de J. Guadarrama, Jaime Klapp
      Pages 99-111

    5. Fossil Fuels Pollution and Air Quality Modeling

      • Darío Rojas-Avellaneda
      Pages 113-121

    6. Fundamentals of Boiling Water Reactor Safety Design and Operation

      • Javier Ortiz-Villafuerte, Rogelio Castillo-Durán, Héctor Hernández-López, Enrique Araiza-Martínez
      Pages 123-146

    7. General Overview of the Current Situation of Nuclear Energy

      • Raúl Ortiz Magaña, Enrique García Ramírez
      Pages 147-161

    8. The Clean and Safe Nuclear Reactors of the Future

      • Karl Verfondern
      Pages 163-193

    9. Transition Strategies for a Hydrogen Economy in Mexico

      • Sergio Dale Bazán-Perkins
      Pages 195-210

    10. Nuclear Energy Economical Viability

      • Gustavo Alonso, Jose R. Ramirez, Javier C. Palacios
      Pages 211-220

    11. Natural Safety Storage of Radioactive Waste

      • Miguel Balcázar-García, Jesús Hernán Flores-Ruiz, Pablo Peña, Arturo López
      Pages 221-232

    12. The Reinassance of Nuclear Power

      • Luis C Longoria-Gandara, Jaime Klapp, Gustavo Alonso, Salvador Galindo
      Pages 233-243

  4. Alternative Energy Resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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The world has entered a period of significant changes regarding the future of energy generation, mainly caused by the apparent exhaustion of hyd- carbons in the near future, and the Greenhouse gases (GHG) effect of alt- ing the climate worldwide. Mexico, as a developing country, and as the eleventh-most populated nation with the thirteenth-largest territory, and as the owner of important oil production resources, is a good example of a State needing to improve and increase its energy generation. A concerted action amongst the e- nomic sectors involved – both governmental and industrial – could dras- cally improve the present situation regarding the development of its alt- native energy resources. The main motivation for organizing the German-Mexican Symposium 2006 Energy for the future: towards a cleaner planet, was to get a global perspective for changing the present energy-mix in Mexico, currently based on fossil fuels, towards cleaner energy resources. To achieve this, a wide range of relevant topics must be analysed, such as the state of the art of each energy type, their potential use and benefits, social, economic, - litical and environmental aspects, and their inclusion as a real alternative to energy generation programs. It will take time for every country to reduce its dependence on hydrocarbons and to increase its alternative energies share.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Departamento de Física, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, La Marquesa, Ocoyoacac, Edomex, México

    Jaime Klapp, Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota

  • Laboratorio de Metalurgia, Esiqie- Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México, D.F.

    José Federico Chávez Alcalá

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