Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet

• Main Author: Murphy, Thomas W. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oakland, California eScholarship [2021]
• Series: Open textbook library.
• Subjects: Science > Textbooks; Earth Sciences > Textbooks; Physics > Textbooks
• Online Access: Access online version

Where is humanity going? How realistic is a future of fusion and space colonies? What constraints are imposed by physics, by resource availability, and by human psychology? Are default expectations grounded in reality? This textbook, written for a general-education audience, aims to address these qu...