Alternative energy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
Greenwood,
c2010.
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| Series: | Historical guides to controversial issues in America
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : conceiving of alternative energy
- Human society's need for energy
- The industrial revolution and humans' high-energy existence
- Against the American grain : paths taken, paths declined
- The 1970s initiate an energy transition
- Assessing renewable and alternative energy technologies
- Redefining alternatives
- Appendix 1: Summaries of U.S. legislation provisions related to alternative energy
- Appendix 2: President Jimmy Carter's speech concerning energy, April 18, 1977
- Appendix 3: President Jimmy Carter : the "crisis of confidence" speech, July 15, 1979
- Appendix 4: Former Vice President Al Gore at New York University, July 17, 2008.