Physics for future presidents : the science behind the headlines, Richard A. Muller

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Physics for future presidents : the science behind the headlines, Richard A. Muller

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the science behind the headlines

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Richard A. Muller

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• Physics for future presidents : the science behind the headlines

Publication

• New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 2008

Copyright

• ©2008

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-359) and index

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Contents

• Impact
• 2.
• Terrorist nukes
• Big nukes
• The
• terrorist dirty bomb
• Rogue nukes
• Uranium bombs
• Plutonium bombs
• 3. The
• Introduction
• next terrorist attack
• Future airplane gasoline attacks
• Bombs on airplanes
• 4.
• Biological terrorism
• The
• anthrax attack
• Terrorism : presidential summary
• [pt]. 2.
• Energy
• [pt]. 1.
• 5.
• Key energy surprises
• Why we love oil
• Power
• Energy alternatives
• Th e
• bottom line : the cost of energy
• 6.
• Solar power
• An
• Terrorism
• anecdote
• Basic facts
• Solar power plants
• Solar airplanes
• 7. The
• end of oil
• Oil from coal : Fischer-Tropsch
• The
• price of oil
• Energy : presidential summary --
• 1.
• Nine-eleven
• Inspecting passengers
• Taking control
• Flying and navigating the airplane
• Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor disaster
• The
• linear hypothesis
• 9.
• Radioactive decay
• Dangers of short versus long half-lives
• Environmental radioactivity
• Horrific mutations
• X-rays and microwaves
• Is radioactivity contagious?
• [pt]. 3.
• 10.
• Nuclear weapons
• The
• key to an explosion: the nuclear chain reaction
• World War II and the Manhattan Project
• Critical mass - the first atomic secret
• Hiroshima - the simple bomb design
• The
• hard part - purifying uranium-235
• Centrifuges
• Nukes
• The
• plutonium bomb - an implosion design
• The
• hydrogen bomb
• Fallout
• Big bombs
• Smaller weapons, more destruction
• 11.
• Nuclear madness
• The
• 8.
• neutron bomb and the weapons paradox
• Nuclear proliferation
• How worried should we be?
• Nukular weapons
• 12.
• Nuclear power
• Can a nuclear reactor explode like an atomic bomb?
• Manufacturing plutonium
• Fast breeder reactors
• The
• Radioactivity and death
• China Syndrome
• Three Mile Island - fuel meltdown
• Chernobyl - a runaway chain reaction
• Pebble bed reactors
• 13.
• Nuclear waste
• My confession
• Plutonium
• Depleted uranium
• 14.
• Radiation and cancer
• Controlled fusion
• Tokamak
• Laser fusion
• Cold fusion
• Nukes : presidential summary --
• The
• linear effect
• The
• 16.
• Gravity applications
• g's
• Using gravity to search for ice, oil, hidden craters, and secret tunnels
• Space industry : manufacturing in a weightless environment
• Gravity on the Moon and asteroids
• Artificial gravity
• The
• X Prize
• 17.
• [pt]. 4.
• Humans in space
• 18.
• Spying with invisible light
• Infrared radiation
• Remote sensing of the Earth
• Military special ops
• Stinger missiles
• Radar and stealth
• Radar imaging
• X-ray backscatter
• Space
• Space : presidential summary
• [pt]. 5.
• Global warming
• 19. A
• brief history of climate
• The
• climate of the past 14,000 years
• 20. The
• greenhouse effect
• Carbon dioxide
• 15.
• Calculating greenhouse warming
• Another danger : acid oceans
• The
• ozone hole
• 21. A
• very likely cause
• Doing something about it : Alaska
• 22.
• Evidence
• Distortion
• Space and satellites
• Exaggeration
• Cherry picking
• News bias
• The
• hockey stick
• Carbon dioxide and ancient climate
• Science and propaganda
• 23.
• Nonsolutions
• Hydrogen hype
• Satellite orbits : LEO, GEO, and MEO
• Electric automobiles
• Fusion
• Solar power
• Recycling
• Kyoto --
• GPS : a set of medium-Earth-orbit satellites
• Spy satellites
• Rocket science
• Automobile efficiency
• 25.
• New technologies
• Biofuels
• Concentrating solar
• Safe nukes
• Clean coal
• Carbon credits
• Renewable energy
• Global warming : presidential summary - the buck stops here
• 24. The
• Notes
• Index
• fruit of the ground
• Comfortable conservation
• Compact fluorescent lights
• Cool colors : when brown paint is white
• Reason for optimism : Rosenfeld's law
• The
• fizzling population bomb

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181139562

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25 cm

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First edition

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380 pages

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9780393066272

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2008006075

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• n

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.b1801012x