EnergySciencesuccessfullyintegratesocial,economicandenvironmentalconsiderationswithanaccessible,quantitativeapproachtoenergyscience.Thistextintroducesthelatestenergytechnologies,explainingthephysicalprinciplesunderlyingtechnologyanddiscussingtheirenvironmental,economic,andsocialimpacts.Withafocusonthetransitionfromfossilfuelstolow-carbonsourcesofenergy,thetextenablesstudentstoevaluatethekeysourcesofenergyavailable,andintroducespotentialsolutionstotheenergyproblemsfacingustoday.Acoretextinthefield,EnergyScienceisfulloftopicalcasestudiesandexamplesusingcurrentdatatohighlightthepracticalapplicationofrelevanttheory.Discussionquestionsthroughoutthetextencouragethedevelopmentofdeepcriticalthinkingskills,ensuringthatstudentsareproperlyequippedtoapproachtheenergychallengesthatlieahead.
