THE GLOBAL ENERGY TRANSITION

Ambitious targets are easy to announce. Delivering them depends on physics, industry, and finance. The Global Energy Transition opens a ten-volume series by reframing the defining challenge of our century: the transition is best understood as an engineering and economic problem with political dimensions, rather than a political problem with engineering dimensions. That shift reveals why political will is necessary but radically insufficient and why the binding constraints are so often physical, industrial, and financial. Written by a chemical process and energy systems engineer with doctoral expertise in renewable energy storage, the book examines the carbon budget, the history and speed of past energy transitions, sector-by-sector emissions, comparative decarbonization costs, and the hard-to-abate industries. Clear, data-rich, and candid about trade-offs, it is essential reading for engineers, policymakers, investors, students, and anyone who wants to understand what decarbonization will really take.

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