February 2009 – Engineering America’s Energy Future
Engineering America’s Energy Future by Eric B. Forsyth Fifth Revision Introduction Within the next generation two problems of global proportions threaten the way of life as we now know it in the United States. They are: 1. Global Climate Change 2. Global Depletion of Fossil Fuel They are related; most scientists agree that the release of carbon into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuel in the past century has contributed in some degree to the present warming trend. What is more contentious is how…