The objective of Future Energy is to first consider the reasons for developing alternate forms of energy available to us, taking into account a future involving a reduction in oil and gas production and also a future constrained by climate change induced by rapidly increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. The book is unique in its genre as each chapter has been written by an expe…
This third edition of Renewable Energy is undoubtedly one of most complete accounts of the subject, from source through to extraction and use. The book is academically rigorous, but accessible. The author first describes the effect of the sun on the atmosphere and the creation of wind and waves, including the effects of global warming. For each type of renewable energy, from direct solar radiat…
Dunia pertambangan di Indonesia tidak saja menunjukan betapa kayanya sumber daya alam nusantara, namun juga menorehkan bara konflik yang terus membara, sejak zaman kolonial hingga sekarang ini. Buku yang semula merupakan disertasi penulis untuk meraih gelar Ph. D di Universitas Amsterdam ini, secara holistik memaparkan situasi tersebut dalam perspektif sejarah sosial politik pertambangan, yang …
In recent years many persons have recognized the need for some means of bringing together all students of clay materials, whether they be mineralogists, ceramists, chemists, physicists, agronomists, engineers, or geologists, who are interested in and actually studying clay materials. The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers held a symposium on Problems of Clay and Laterite G…
The Mineral resources Consultative Committee consisted of representatives of interested Government Departments, and specialist advisers. It was set up in 1967 to keep present and future requirements for minerals under review and to identify problems associated with the availability, exploitation and use of mineral resources, both inland and offshore, having regard to competing demands on land o…
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Geology and Geochemistry of Epithermal Systems--Volume 2 of Reviews in Economic Geology--was created to accompany a Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) short course of the same name that was given in October, 1985, prior to the annual meetings of the Geological Society of America and Associated Societies in Orlando, Florida. As was the case with volume 1, the final published version of volume …
Any geologists can now afford to sharpen his thinking and improve the reliability of his conclusions through the statistical methods that are explained in this volume. No previous knowledge of statistic is necessary, and only those statistical methods are introduced that pertain to geological data and geological problems. Illustrating the methods are many numerical examples, all using a minimum…