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Renewable and alternative energy resources a reference handbook

Provides an overview of renewable and alternative energy technologies and policies in the United States and around the world.

Main Author: Smith, Zachary A. 1953-
Other Authors: Taylor, Katrina D.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©2008.
Series: Contemporary world issues.
Subjects:
Barber, Kenneth F. tribute.
Renewable energy sources > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Reference works.
Table of Contents:
  • Background and history. Current energy sources
  • Projected outlook for worldwide energy demand and consumption
  • Renewable and alternative energy technologies
  • Alternative energy
  • Problems, controversies, and solutions. Problems
  • Controversies: Viability of renewable and alternative energy technologies, Nuclear power, Energy conservation, Oil topping point, Global warming, Economic and political problems
  • Solutions: Broad advantages of renewable and alternative energy, Technical solutions, Policy solutions
  • Global perspectives
  • Worldwide perspective. Europe
  • Asia and Oceania
  • Africa and the Middle East
  • North America
  • South America
  • Chronology
  • Biographical sketches. William Grylls Adams
  • Svante Arrhenius
  • Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval
  • Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel
  • Elliott Berman
  • Homi Jehangir Bhabha
  • Frank Bridgers
  • Gro Harlem Brundtland
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Georges Claude
  • Arthur Compton
  • Georges Jean Marie Darrieus
  • Rudolph Diesel
  • Thomas Alva Edison
  • John Ericsson
  • Michael Faraday
  • Enrico Fermi
  • Benoit Fourneyron
  • Charles Fritts
  • Arnold J. Goldman
  • Albert A. Gore, Jr.
  • William R. Grove
  • Subhendu Guha
  • John Burden Sanderson Haldane
  • James E. Hansen
  • William Heronemus
  • M. King Hubbert
  • Jeremy Leggett
  • Amory Bloch Lovins
  • Auguste Mouchout
  • Willie Nelson
  • Roger Revelle
  • Frank Shuman
  • Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
  • Robert Stirling
  • Alexander T.B. Stuart
  • Hans Eduard Suess
  • Leo Szilard
  • Tom Udall
  • Data and documents. Worldwide data
  • U.S. data
  • Environmental impacts
  • Directory of organizations. Nongovernmental organizations
  • Research institutes
  • Associations
  • U.S. government agencies
  • International agencies
  • Resources.

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