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" Renewable energy facts and fantasies : "
by Craig Shields.
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BL
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950747
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b705117
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Renewable energy facts and fantasies : : the tough realities as revealed in interviews with 25 subject matter experts /\ by Craig Shields.
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La Canada, CA :: Clean Energy Press,, ©2010.
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314 pages ;; 22 cm
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0615388353
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: 9780615388359
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Tough realities : The political scene ; Peak oil ; Energy and national security ; Global climate change ; National renewable energy laboratory ; Renewables and environmental stewardship -- thinking through all the implications ; The carbon war room and free market capitalism ; Using the law to enforce environmental responsibility ; The role of non-government organizations -- NGOs -- Tough realities : The technologies ; Biofuels ; Wind power ; Solar energy -- photovoltaics ; Solar thermal -- concentrating solar power ; Geothermal ; Hydrokinetics ; Cold fusion ; The sociology of driving ; Hydrogen fuel cells -- Tough realities : Advocacy, economics and other issues ; Advocating for electric vehicles -- plug-in America ; electric transportation and its impacts on our power grid ; Lobbying for electric transportation ; Renewables and clean transportation at the municipal level ; Intelligent energy management in buildings ; Activism and the media in clean energy ; The role of the media in clean energy ; Renewable energy -- business and finance ; Renewable energy -- another viewpoint on picking stocks -- Conclusion -- Epilogue : The gulf oil spill and its impact on renewables -- App. All the physics that almost everyone needs to know.
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"Our civilization's ever-increasing hunger for energy-and its fixation on fossil fuels to provide that energy-is in the process of imploding on itself as our population grows and its demographics change. Yet we live in a world of tough realities, where an elegant solution simply does not exist." 2GreenEnergy founder Craig Shields provides a broad survey of the subject, presenting 25 interviews with the widest possible variety of subject matter specialists-each chosen to provide the reader with an accessible and fair-minded treatment of a particular issue. The technology, the economics, and the politics of renewables form a fantastically complicated calculus that needs to be thoroughly understood if we are to have relevant, informed discussions on this subject-the most important challenge in the history of mankind-the migration to clean and sustainable energy sources.
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Renewable energy sources.
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Förnybara energikällor.
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Renewable energy sources.
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333.794
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HD9502.A2R46 2010
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Shields, Craig.
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