Alabama and the Energy Crisis
Author: William Histaspas Stewart
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 68
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Author: William Histaspas Stewart
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maggie Koerth-Baker
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2012-02-21
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 111817559X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat you need to know now about America's energy future "Hi, I'm the United States and I'm an oil-oholic." We have an energy problem. And everybody knows it, even if we can't all agree on what, specifically, the problem is. Rising costs, changing climate, peaking oil, foreign oil, public safety?if the fears are this complicated, then the solutions are bound to be even more confusing. Maggie Koerth-Baker?science editor at the award-winning blog BoingBoing.net?finally makes some sense out of the madness. Over the next 20 years, we'll be forced to cut 20 quadrillion BTU worth of fossil fuels from our energy budget, by wasting less and investing in alternatives. To make it work, we'll need to radically change the energy systems that have shaped our lives for 100 years. And the result will be neither business-as-usual, nor a hippie utopia. Koerth-Baker explains what we can do, what we can't do, and why "The Solution" is really a lot of solutions working together. This isn't about planting a tree, buying a Prius, and proving that you're a good person. Economics and social incentives got us a country full of gas-guzzling cars, long commutes, inefficient houses, and coal-fired power plants out in the middle of nowhere, and economics and incentives will be the things that build our new world. Ultimately, change is inevitable. Argues we're not going to solve the energy problem by convincing everyone to live like it's 1900 because that's not a good thing. Instead of reverting to the past, we have to build a future where we get energy from new places, use it in new ways, and do more with less. Clean coal? Natural gas? Nuclear? Electric cars? We'll need them all. When you look at the numbers, you'll find that we'll still be using fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables for decades to come. Looks at new battery technology, smart grids, passive buildings, decentralized generation, clean coal, and carbon sequestration. These are buzzwords now, but they'll be a part of your world soon. For many people, they already are. Written by the cutting edge Science Editor for Boing Boing, one of the ten most popular blogs in America
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kirkpatrick Sale
Publisher: The Institute for Southern Studies
Published: 1973-09-01
Total Pages: 99
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are some remarkable parallels between the Watergate scandals and the energy crisis—the two biggest front-page stories in recent months. Both are the product of a politics of fear and intimidation, a use of power to obscure public issues with scare words like black-outs and Black Panthers, while stealing Americans blind. In the name of law-andorder, the Watergate tricksters nearly stole the government. In the name of supply-and-demand, the energy companies would have us finance their attempt to further monopolize the world's energy resources. But more of us are seeing through these kinds of tricks. On a national level, perhaps television has produced a more sophisticated audience, one capable of discerning a second-rate used car salesman or a fast buck hoax in an instant. That's certainly ironic considering the way TV has become the media for presidental campaigning and the oil companies' good-guy apologies. Of course, Southerners should have a slight edge in spotting a fraud. After all, we've had decades of demagogues and statehouse gangs. telling us what was best for "the little people." Not that we've had a monopoly on such corruption. Nationally, the worst enemies of democracy and free enterprise consistently prove to be those who claim to be those systems' protectors. Still, the South has a special relation to these latest crises. And that's what this issue of our journal is all about. There is increasing evidence that the cronies and the cash that made Watergate a Nixon policy came from the southern USA. Kirkpatrick Sale explores this thought in his analysis of the emerging political clout of what he calls "the southern rim."
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Education
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James L. Sweeney
Publisher: Hoover Inst Press Publication
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe California Electricity Crisis details the events that ultimately led to the crisis: the policy decisions, consequences of those decisions, and alternatives that could have averted the crisis and the current blight."--Jacket.
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 868
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Perlman
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Publishing Company
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Byrne
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-26
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0429560559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1985. This volume on household energy conditions considers the energy crisis in the United States and offers an important appraisal of the future of energy consumption by families and the family's adaptations to decreasing energy availability. The chapters in the first section investigate the cultural dimensions of energy use at the household level, looking at attitudes and trends. The second section considers energy policy, especially conservation, with a special chapter on elderly households, while the third presents case studies and projections of the future patterns and changes in energy consumption. This is a fascinating snapshot of thinking on families and the effects of energy use.