Sustainable Materials Without the Hot Air: Making Buildings, Vehicles and Products Efficiently and with Less New Material, by Julian M. Allwood, Jonathan M. Cullen
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Part of the hugely popular Without the Hot Air series, this book is accessibly written from an engineering perspective on a wide range of materials Presenting a vision of change for how future generations can still use steel, cement, plastics, etcetera, but with less impact on the environment, this book is a wake-up call first, and then a solutions manual. By providing an evidence-based vision of change, the book can play a significant role in influencing our future. Written for designers; engineers; operations, technical, and business managers; traders; and government and NGO officials associated with business, climate, energy, environment, waste, trade and financing. It is relevant to a wide range of industries, including energy, construction, consulting, manufacturing, transport, and architecture, but will also appeal to those who love popular science. This second edition is updated with the latest developments in both science and industry.
Sustainable Materials Without the Hot Air: Making Buildings, Vehicles and Products Efficiently and with Less New Material, by Julian M. Allwood, Jonathan M. Cullen - Amazon Sales Rank: #898102 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.75" h x .90" w x 7.75" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
Sustainable Materials Without the Hot Air: Making Buildings, Vehicles and Products Efficiently and with Less New Material, by Julian M. Allwood, Jonathan M. Cullen Review "Though the authors have expertise in their subject, and it shows, they also write engagingly, explaining production methods and yield analysis in a way that a general audience can understand, and that will hopefully inspire industry to put these ideas into practice." —Jeff Fleischer, Foreword Reviews"An excellent book . . . the message is clear and convincing: We can’t go on using materials the way we have been for the past 150 years, but fortunately, we don’t have to. We can meet the world’s growing need for the stuff of modern life, avoid the worst effects of climate change, and preserve the environment for future generations . . . . Although the topic can be dry as a desert, the authors keep it light with lots of colorful illustrations and clever analogies without sacrificing clarity or rigor. I learned a lot from this thoughtful look at a critical topic." —Bill Gates, gatesnotes.com on first edition
About the Author Julian M. Allwood is a professor in engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he leads the Low Carbon Materials Processing research group. Jonathan M. Cullen is university lecturer in the University of Cambridge engineering department. They both have extensive experience working in the engineering industry, in addition to their numerous research projects.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Great book - Poor presentation on Kindle By Popup The contents merit at least four stars - maybe five. But unfortunately the Kindle formatting is very poor. The paper (and PDF) versions contain brilliantly coloured diagrams and schematics, but on the kindle the graphs are too small as well as being almost entirely indecipherable, thanks to all the colours being rendered into similar shades of grey. The footnotes are also messed up in the kindle presentations.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. How will contractors get this information?! By sarahwiser merrillee Folks, the problem will be, if we are honest, that our contractors in most areas of the country, do not have this book, but should.How can we get this information out there? A woman I know is her own General Contractor, and had to order most of the supplies because her contractors down here in the Lower Rio Grande Valley do not KNOW HOW even to ORDER this sort of product. She did, and only therefore got them. But even the Building Inspectors don't know how to approve them. How sad that we are so slow to do what is needed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. DOING MORE WITH LESS By DAVID BRYSON The planet that we live on, and that we depend on for our day-to-day sustenance and survival, is not a bottomless pit. It needs no engineering professors come from Cambridge to tell us this, you may say, but the message seems only to be sinking in very haphazardly with the general public. There must be whole libraries of learned tomes on the subject of sustainable resources, but what we have here is a textbook that also does its best to be readable by the rest of us. It’s ourselves – the voting public – who really matter, because we have the numbers to force through change if we can stir ourselves to do that.How near a date is 2050, would you say? I won’t be alive then, but my children ought to be and my grandchildren will still be in their 30s. By that date the world community is supposed to have halved its carbon emissions, the ‘greenhouse gases’ widely believed among scientists to be warming our environment to a dangerous extent, and it looks as if we had better believe that and do something about it before it’s all too late. It’s over-production and over-consumption that are doing the damage, so the route to a solution, if there is one, must be to get all that under control. The watchword is ‘sustainable’. Slowing down our over-consumption is good so far as it goes, but it is only postponing disaster. We owe it to generations we will never know that they should have a habitable planet, and this ambitious book with its positive message deserves thanks as well as credit for organising our thinking for us.The bulk of the carbon emissions come from steel and aluminium processing, so the analysis is mainly concerned with those industries, with shorter sections on cement, paper and plastics, although even the clothing trade makes a brief appearance. The authors see it as necessary to look at the issues with two eyes rather than one, and it would be hard not to agree. To me as I read carefully the distinction was not as clear or firm as it is to the writers. I was looking for a step-change from one category to the other, and I only found it partially. In the ‘one-eyed’ perceptions the story was all about managerial efficiencies – letting less product go to waste, avoiding over-specification, technological advances etc. When we open both eyes we actually find a good deal more of the same sort of thing, just tightened up. I was looking for strategy, not just super-housekeeping, important indeed essential though that is. The strategic insights are allowed to peep through, and one can hardly blame the authors for being so canny about them. What is needed is a change of the public mind, and politics being politics and folks being folks that is going to invite obvious comparisons with Mao’s Great Leap Forward and other even worse initiatives: how do you change the public mind? With difficulty, I guess, but unless we, the public, change it for ourselves the blight is going to be creeping up on us while we try to look the other way or blame it on political attitudes.How do you feel about living with less? In my early years, just after the war, it seemed a simple straight-line graph of increasing prosperity. The seventies gave us pause, but not for long, and we resumed our merry way until it became clear that there was no straight line. At last we the public were beginning to understand that we had a job to do in gaining a grasp of the underlying realities and not just leaving it all to our politicians while at the same time affecting not to believe anything they said. We tried ‘revolution’ and such like childishness, but gradually we understood that we needed, however reluctantly, to inform ourselves. And that is where this fine book comes in. It is (so far as I can tell) a reputable scientific textbook by reputable academic scientists that gives the rest of us the chance to gain a proper understanding of an issue that that has no respect for our status, academic, scientific, politically committed or anything else of the kind.Even at the ‘one-eyed’ level, the cultural changes called for are mind-boggling. After decades of doing obeisance to growth in the GDP how are we going to adapt to lower production levels and cars that will last for 20 years while inflicting on us the ultimate indignity of having to wind down the windows by hand? I don’t know, but again the authors have an en-passant remark at one point to the effect that such attitudinal adjustments tend to come about when the ogre is staring us in the face.There is one real and urgent warning to be given. Aside from a reference in a footnote, the book has one reference to nuclear electricity generation, which it welcomes with innocent enthusiasm. I wonder whether the authors can have read Nuclear Power by Walter C Paterson, another very readable (and also quite short) volume. To believe that the transportation and storage of nuclear wastes can ever be safe you have to do what our authors here do and simply ignore the issues. On the one hand Allwood and Cullen are admirably honest in refusing to commit to Carbon Capture and Storage. Too right, but the nuclear issue is immeasurably bigger. Remember that you can’t destroy nuclear material, you can only take it somewhere else. Oh right, so where? Where indeed. Have we just given ourselves two new problems where we might have hoped to find some kind of answers? Absolutely we have, and that’s the nature of the issue we face.A superb book in every other way.
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