A Cubic Mile of Oil: Realities and Options for Averting the Looming Global Energy Crisis

Crane, Hewitt

ISBN 10: 0195325540 / ISBN 13: 9780195325546

Published by OUP USA, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Cubic Mile of Oil: Realities and Options for Averting the Looming Global Energy Crisis
• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195325540
• ISBN 13: 9780195325546
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 610 grams

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Synopsis

A Cubic Mile of Oil describes the world's energy sources and delineates what it would take to develop each of them to annually produce the equivalent of current global annual consumption of oil-a CMO.

About the Author

Hewitt Crane was one of SRI's visionaries, combining several disciplines in his multilevel career. He is considered to be SRI's first bioengineer and one of SRI's most prolific inventors. Prior to SRI Hew worked with John Von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was also co-founder of the highly acclaimed Ridge winery.

Edwin Kinderman has spent over 50 years actively conducting and/or managing research, development and evaluation activities dealing with the development and implementation of energy technology and the individual markets these technologies address. His latest effort has been an attempt to correlate these experiences into the overall evaluations discussed in this book.

Ripudaman Malhotra is an organic chemist who has worked extensively in the area of energy. Though most of his 30-year tenure has focused on the processing and analysis of fossil fuels, in recent years he has devoted increasing attention to the development of biofuels and other alternative energy sources.