Table of Contents

PART I FOSSIL FUEL and NUCLEAR ENERGY 1. The Future of Oil and Gas Fossil Fuels 2. The Future of Clean Coal 3. Nuclear Power (Fission)  4. The Alberta Oil Sands: Reserves and Supply Outlook 5. The Future of Methane and Coal to Petrol and Diesel Technologies

PART II RENEWABLE ENERGY 6. Wind Energy 7. Tidal Current Energy: Origins and Challenges 8. Wave Energy 9. Bio-Mass 10. Concentrating Solar Power 11. Hydroelectric Power 12. Geothermal Energy 13. Solar Energy: Photovoltaics

PART III POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT NEW TYPESOF ENERGY 14. The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor  15. Fuel Cells and Batteries 16. Methane Hydrates 17. Nuclear Fusion

PART IV NEW ASPECTS TO FUTURE ENERGY  18. Carbon Capture and Storage for Greenhouse effect Mitigation  19. Smart Energy Houses of the Future – self supporting in energy and zero emission

About the Author

Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.