Energy revolution : the physics and the promise of efficient technology / Mara Prentiss.
Energy revolution : the physics and the promise of efficient technology / Mara Prentiss.
Energy revolution : the physics and the promise of efficient technology / Mara Prentiss.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
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G 2015/3691
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English
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viii, 341 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: U.S. energy use-- past, present, and future -- I. Foundations of a renewable future. 1. Overview of renewable energy -- 2. Electric power for a renewable future -- II. Renewables are enough. 3. Electricity from water -- 4. Electricity from wind -- 5. Electricity from the sun -- 6. Comb...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2015.
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Energy can be neither created nor destroyed - but it can be wasted. The United States wastes two-thirds of its energy, including 80 percent of the energy used in transportation. So the nation has a tremendous opportunity to develop a sensible energy policy based on benefits and costs. But to do that we need facts - not hyperbole, not wishful thinki...
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Energy revolution : the physics and the promise of efficient technology / Mara Prentiss.
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Includes and index.
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G 2015/3691
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74VKRaXOqDXl
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0674725026 (alk. paper)
9780674725027 (alk. paper)
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333.7932
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991023144669702626
