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Our Climate and the Energy Problem

How our Energy Needs can be Covered in a Climate-Friendly Way

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  1. Klaus Stierstadt

    1. Faculty of Physics, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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  • Provides an overview of the uses to which solar energy

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Klaus Stierstadt
    Pages 1-2

  3. The Climate

    • Klaus Stierstadt
    Pages 3-9

  4. The Carbon Dioxide CO2

    • Klaus Stierstadt
    Pages 11-13

  5. The Energy Demand

    • Klaus Stierstadt
    Pages 15-21

  6. The Sun

    • Klaus Stierstadt
    Pages 23-29

  7. The Solar Energy Converters

    • Klaus Stierstadt
    Pages 31-46

  8. Non-solar Energy Converters

    • Klaus Stierstadt
    Pages 47-55

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 57-62
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About this book

This essential provides an overview of the changes in our climate, their causes and their consequences. Today, humanity's energy needs are largely met in ways that are harmful to the climate. The alternative to this, solar energy, would satisfy our needs thousands of times over. But this option is far too little used for mainly economic reasons. This essential then discusses the energy converters that can be used to make solar energy available. Some other modern energy sources, such as nuclear power, are either inadequate, still utopian, or otherwise environmentally harmful. An outlook shows that our energy problem could easily be solved with economic reason by global use of solar energy. The climate could thus still be stabilized in time.


This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Unser Klima und das Energieproblem by Klaus Stierstadt, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Physics, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Klaus Stierstadt

About the author

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.. Klaus Stierstadt is professor emeritus of physics at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and author of several physics textbooks. He was a member of the board of the German Physical Society as well as vice president of the University of Munich and is honorary senator of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His fields of work are radioactivity of the atmosphere, magnetism, phase transitions, neutron scattering and magnetohydrodynamics.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Our Climate and the Energy Problem

  • Book Subtitle: How our Energy Needs can be Covered in a Climate-Friendly Way

  • Authors: Klaus Stierstadt

  • Series Title: essentials

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38313-8

  • Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-38312-1Published: 03 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-38313-8Published: 02 December 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2197-6708

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-6716

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 62

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Applied and Technical Physics, Thermodynamics, Renewable and Green Energy

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