Metals, energy and sustainability : the story of Doctor Copper and King Coal / Barry Golding, Suzanne D. Golding.
Golding, Barry, author.; Golding, Suzanne D., author.
2017
TA480.C7
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Title Metals, energy and sustainability : the story of Doctor Copper and King Coal / Barry Golding, Suzanne D. Golding.
Author Golding, Barry, author.
ISBN 9783319511757 (electronic book)
3319511750 (electronic book)
9783319511733
3319511734
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51175-7
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-51175-7 doi
Call Number TA480.C7
Dewey Decimal Classification 620.1/82
550
Summary This book explains how and where copper and fossil fuels were formed and the likely future for the extraction of copper and coal. The colourful chronology of our efforts to extract metals from minerals and energy from fossil fuels is presented from earliest times until the present day. The difficult concept of human sustainability is examined in the context of continually decreasing real prices of energy and metals. This book integrates the latest findings on our historic use of technology to continually produce cheaper metals even though ore grades have been decreasing. Furthermore, it shows that the rate of technological improvement must increase if metals are to be produced even more cheaply in the future.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Digital File Characteristics text file PDF
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 14, 2017).
Added Author Golding, Suzanne D., author.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783319511733
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Introduction
Dr Copper and King Coal
Properties of Copper and Coal
Copper and Coal through the Ages
Metals Energy and Sustainability
Conclusion
Index.

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