Bibliograph

Renewable, the world-changing power of alternative energy, Jeremy Shere

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Renewable, the world-changing power of alternative energy, Jeremy Shere

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Renewable

Oclc number

827257013

Responsibility statement

Jeremy Shere

Sub title

the world-changing power of alternative energy

Summary

An entertaining and informative guide to where renewable energy has been, where it is today, and where it's heading

Table Of Contents

Part 1. Green gas -- Henry Ford and the search for ethanol -- Giant Chinese silver grass -- The rise, fall, rise and fall of alcohol fuel -- Gas lines and gasohol -- Back to the ethanol future -- Part 2. Sun -- The sad fate of Jimmy Carter's solar panels -- Solar Renaissance -- Sun power -- Ice from fire -- Solar reborn -- Part 3. Wind -- Charles Brush and his wind machine -- Wind power reborn -- Peppard's folly -- Wind goes electric -- A new golden age of wind -- Part 4. Earth -- Going geothermal at Ball State -- The geysers -- Hot rocks and high hopes -- Part 5. Water -- Hydropower 2.0 -- The electropolis of America -- The power of waves -- Salter's duck

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