This book states that the new environmental challenge will also have to be faced ethically, science can provide the tools, but people will have to be sensitized so that they make their own environmental ethics.
The challenge of the new era is: the environment and therefore the climate, as it does not start outside of us, but as a constituent element of our life and therefore lived ethically.
The new vision proposed in this book is to push technology together with the human being, in assuming environmentally ethical behaviors: this is the greatest collective action of humanity.
Sustainable development has allowed an integrated key to the social, economic, and environmental dimensions.
Through ethics, sustainability can be combined not only by referring to the problem of pollution and the exploitation of natural resources, but it creates a new global era that includes all dimensions of people’s lives and of society.
The shared and structured environmental ethics allow an approach that is no longer short-term but provide the collective tools to look far in time.
With this book, we want to lay the instrumental, technical, social, and legislative foundations, to provide a new methodology for the care of the environment, as up to now, there has been much discussion, but little achieved in a truly ethical way.
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Composition of flue gases.- Cooling water of thermoelectric power plants with thermodynamic cycle.- Decarbonization of combustion gases by methanization.- Modeling the estimation of harmful emissions in the production of energy from biomass in comparison with other fuel types.- Use of methanol as a hydrogen carrier to supply high temperature polymer fuel cells acting as a recharging unit for an electric traction battery.- An overview on pollutant emissions of internal combustion engines.- Effect of air pollutants produced by traditional energy sources.- Vibrations in the operation of energy equipment.- Biomass utilization for energy production.- Evolution of Environmental Regulations.- Renewable energy and agriculture.- Methodology for assessing and forecasting the potential of biogas production and the potential of woody biomass.- Innovative technologies for controlling modes of power supply systems using renewable energy sources.- Integration of charging stations in power systems using RESs.- Sustainability of electricity consumption lighting and HVAC systems.- Electrical safety in low voltage energy installations.- The positive energy transition through consumer awareness.