Energy resources

What if climate change isn t an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?

A comprehensive textbook that integrates tools from technology, economics, markets, and policy to approach energy issues using a dynamic systems and capital-centric perspective.

A scarcity of natural resources.

Helium has long been the subject of public policy deliberation and management, largely because of its many strategic uses and its unusual source-it is a derived product of natural gas and its market has several anomalous characteristics.

America's economy and lifestyles have been shaped by the low prices and availability of energy.

This landmark work lauds the benefits of decreased energy consumption, investigating its relationship to public policy and analyzing its potential billion-dollar benefits to the U.

Renewable energy is becoming crucially important, as concern over burning fossil fuels is increasing and the price of oil continues to rise.

A handbook of sustainable energy, covering entire energy aspects from present status to future alternatives under one umbrella This book takes an interdisciplinary system approach to evaluating energy systems so that readers can gain the necessary technical foundation to perform their own performance evaluations and understand their interactions with socioeconomic indicators.

This is a book that tackles the most important issue of our age in a highly informative, accessible and engaging way.

First World Petro-Politics examines the vital yet understudied case of a first world petro-state facing related social, ecological, and economic crises in the context of recent critical work on fossil capitalism.

A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the complex issues surrounding energy generation and use, this one-of-a-kind resource clarifies everything from the basic structure of the industry to the potential-and risks-of new technologies.

This book is a comprehensive and analytical perspective on the future of electricity demand in a low-carbon world.

This book presents an analytic history of American energy policy, examining policy failures and how the policy process itself leads to failure.

Since its inception in 1977 from an amalgam of federal authorities, the U.

Renewable Power Pathways is the result of a study by the National Research Council (NRC) Committee for the Programmatic Review of the Office of Power Technologies (OPT) review of the U.

This book provides an outstanding single-volume resource on the topic of solar energy for young adults and general audiences.

Inside small homes and huts throughout the developing world, billions of people burn fires in rudimentary stoves to prepare their meals and heat their homes.

This study was undertaken in recognition of the critical role played by the Energy Resources Program (ERP) of the U.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionIn Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist.

Rigorous exploration of the Trump administration''s pro-fossil fuel policy and its lasting impact on public health, the economy, and the environment.

This book explores how the idea of justice can give us a way to better assess and resolve energy challenges and problems.

This is the first handbook to provide a global policy perspective on energy, bringing together a diverse range of international energy issues in one volume.

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This is the first book to examine the social and cultural significance of coal in British society in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The acute energy problems facing China today are characterized by their own histories and realities.

This book assesses the current state of the field in a number of potential applications and discusses technologies for which concentrated solar energy might be utilized.

Delve into the history of energy resource conflicts, their present status, and the potential effects of today's energy production decisions on the future of humanity.

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, many in theNew York City area have become concerned about the possible consequences of a similarattack on the Indian Point nuclear power plantslocated about 40 miles from Manhattan,and have made calls for their closure.

This book dispels common myths about electricity and electricity policy and reveals how government policies manipulate energy markets, create hidden costs, and may inflict a net harm on the American people and the environment.

Discourse of Reciprocity reveals patterns of press behavior in the US-Canada alliance at points where the nature of the alliance itself was under stress.

Armenia receives one of the highest levels of international aid per capita in the Western world, and among the highest of the post-Soviet states.

This book is a comprehensive and analytical perspective on the future of electricity demand in a low-carbon world.

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt der Photovoltaik mit dem umfassenden Buch 'Zukunftstechnologie Photovoltaik – Nachhaltige Energieversorgung für eine grüne Zukunft'.

This book shows how promoting clean energy technologies - from solar panels to electric cars - can end human-induced climate change.

The Gold Coast is one of Australia's premier tourism destinations, a modern city cut out of coastal vegetation, including paperbark swamps, mangroves and rainforests of both Indigenous and worldwide significance.

This book considers, and offers solutions to, the problems faced by local communities and the environment with respect to global mining.

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examines principal energy policy decisions and their lingering effects, by recounting the historical context surrounding the interplay of law, markets, and technology.

The National Academies' National Research Council undertook this study in response to a request from the Under Secretary of Energy to provide strategic advice on how the Department of Energy could improve its Environmental Quality R&D portfolio.

Few people doubt the threat of climate change and the urgent need to conquer fossil fuel addiction.

This book acts as a reference that provides readers with the broadest available single volume coverage of leading edge advances in the development and optimization of clean energy technologies.

Employing scientific explanations and hard data, this book shows why coal is such a problem, how the pro-coal forces got to be so powerful, and how those forces might be defeated through political activism.

Rivers are a vital component of ecology-the earth's hydrological cycle depends on them.

In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world's first zero-carbon city: Masdar City.

This is an analytical assessment of how the government can accelerate development and deployment of energy technologies, for researchers and policy makers.

The monograph has solved an actual scientific problem, improving the efficiency of electricity networks by developing methods of compensation current non-active components under harmonic distortions and unbalance of mains supply voltage.

First World Petro-Politics examines the vital yet understudied case of a first world petro-state facing related social, ecological, and economic crises in the context of recent critical work on fossil capitalism.