Energy, economics, and the environment
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OSTI ID:5760656
This book is suitable as a text for a college-level course on the current energy situation, given to non-science majors. Interested general readers will also find it useful. The authors hope its readers will be able to analyze today's energy problems and develope ideas for possible solutions. Boxed inserts with supplementary information, study questions, problems, bibliographies, photographs, diagrams, a glossary, and a subject index are provided. Contents, abridged: Historical survey of energy-using societies. Nonrenewable energy resources. Renewable energy resources. Environmental analysis. Integrations. Index.
- OSTI ID:
- 5760656
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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