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Metallogenic Theory and Exploration Technology of Multi-Arc-Basin-Terrane Col…
This open access book presents a new structural model of “multi-arc-basin-terrane system” based on the in-depth research of the Nujiang-Lancangjiang-Jinshajiang region, especially several Paleo-Tethys ophiolitic mélange belts and sets of arc-basin systems, and a new orogenic model of “The Hengduan shan Mountains” based on penetrated research on spatial-temporal framework and orogenic m…
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- 978-981-99-3651-9
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- XV, 307
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Vulnerable Households in the Energy Transition
This open access book explores the energy transition / energy poverty nexus in the European Union, including the implications of the transition and related policies for the household sector. Written by experts on energy economics, energy studies and related fields, it examines the impacts and costs of the energy transition (including those caused by carbon pricing) for the economy and for famil…
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- 978-3-031-35683-4
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Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution
An argument for a major federal program to stimulate innovation in energy technology and a proposal for a policy approach to implement it.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255516
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- 1 online resource (xi, 318 pages)
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The end of energy: The unmaking of America's environment, security, and indep…
"Americans take for granted that when we flip a switch the light will go on, when we turn up the thermostat the room will get warm, and when we pull up to the pump gas will be plentiful and relatively cheap. In The End of Energy, Michael Graetz shows us that we have been living an energy delusion for forty years. Until the 1970s, we produced domestically all the oil we needed to run our power p…
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- 9780262295611
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- 1 online resource (x, 369 pages) :illustrations
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Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties
In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing demand for energy with the absolute necessity to preserve the integrity of the biosphere. With this book he offers a comprehensive, accessible guide to today's complex energy issues -- how to think clearly and logically about what is possible and what is …
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- 9780262283847
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 427 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Renewables :the politics of a global energy transition
A comprehensive political analysis of the rapid growth in renewable wind and solar power, mapping an energy transition through theory, case studies, and policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262344609
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- 1 online resource
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Escaping the energy poverty trap :when and how governments power the lives of…
The first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty, arguing that governments can improve energy access for their citizens through appropriate policy design.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262349291
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- 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)
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Ending the fossil fuel era
Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but great prosperity. But the presumption of net benefits from fossil fuels is eroding as widening circles of people rich and poor experience the downside. A positive transition to a post-fossil fuel era cannot wait for global agreement, a swap-in of renewables, a miracle te…
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- 9780262327077
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- 1 online resource (xii, 374 pages) :illustrations
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Oil, illiberalism, and war: An analysis of energy and US foreign policy
The United States is addicted to crude oil. In this book, Andrew Price-Smith argues that this addiction has distorted the conduct of American foreign policy in profound and malign ways, resulting in interventionism, exploitation, and other illiberal behaviors that hide behind a facade of liberal internationalism. The symbiotic relationship between the state and the oil industry has produced dev…
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- 9780262327527
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- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 210 pages) :map
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Implementation of solar thermal technology
Implementation of Solar Thermal Technology describes the successes and failures of the commercialization efforts of the U.S. solar thermal energy program, from the oil embargo of 1973 through the demise of the program in the early Reagan administration and its afterlife since then. The emphasis throughout is on lessons learned from the solar experience, with an eye toward applications to other …
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- 0585025541
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- 1 online resource (xii, 995 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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