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Tomorrow's Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet by Peter Hoffmann Publisher Comments Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. An invisible, tasteless, colorless gas, it can be converted to nonpolluting, zero-emission, renewable energy. When burned in an internal combustion engine, hydrogen produces mostly harmless water... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Elektrische Maschinen: Grundlagen Magnetfelder, Wicklungen, Asynchronmaschinen, Synchronmaschinen, Elektronisch Kommutierte Gleichstrommaschi by Ekkehard Bolte Publisher Comments Motoren, Generatoren und Aktuatoren sind immer häufiger Schlüsselkomponenten in komplexen Systemen. Ihre Wirkungsweise zu kennen, ist daher für Hersteller und Nutzer von vitalem Interesse. Aufbauend auf den physikalischen Grundlagen werden in dem Band... (read more) List Price $140.25 Your price: $129.00 New - Hardcover
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Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System by Richard K. Lester Publisher Comments Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. But if we are to achieve a timely transition to reliable, low-... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Fundamentals of Thermodynamics 7th Edition by Claus Borgnakke and Richard E. Sonntag Publisher Comments Now in its seventh edition, Fundamentals of Thermodynamics continues to offer a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of classical thermodynamics, while retaining an engineering perspective. With concise, applications-oriented discussion of topics and... (read more) List Price $207.50 Your price: $203.65 New - Hardcover
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Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities by Peter Fox-penner Publisher Comments A new national policy on climate change is under debate in the United States and is likely to result in a cap on greenhouse gas emissions for utilities. This and other developments will prompt utilities to undergo the largest changes in their history... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Solar Hydrogen Generation: Transition Metal Oxides in Water Photoelectrolysis by Jinghua Guo Publisher Comments Expert techniques for extracting hydrogen from water using transition metal oxides as catalysts Solar Hydrogen Generation details the complex process of separating hydrogen from oxygenphotoelectrolysis. This book comprehensively covers the chemical... (read more) List Price $153.95 Your price: $150.00 New - Hardcover
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: the New Geopolitics of Energy (09 Edition) by Michael T. Klare Publisher Comments "Klares superb book explains, in haunting detail, the trends that will lead us into a series of dangerous traps unless we muster the will to transform the way we use energy."—Bill McKibben Oil recently hit $140 a barrel, and it is still climbing... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis by Richard Heinberg Publisher Comments "Blackout is an important and timely book. In the form of this compact volume, one of the best and most productive peak oil authors working today has turned his customary scholarhsip, wisdom, wit and writing prowess to some of the most ciritical issues... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Energy in Nature and Society (08 Edition) by Vaclav Smil Publisher Comments "Vaclav Smil's appreciation of energy systems combines Thomas Edison and Franz Kafka. He celebrates innovation and progress but also vividly shows the strange fates and fall-out of what appear to be some of humanity's best machines."--Jesse H. Ausubel... (read more) List Price $39.25 Your price: $26.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Managed Pressure Drilling: Modeling, Strategy and Planning by Wilson C. Chin, Ph.d. Publisher Comments Managed Pressure Drilling Operations is a significant technology worldwide and beginning to make an impact all over the world. Often reservoir and drilling engineers are faced with the decision on how best to construct a well to exploit zones of interest... (read more) Your price: $119.95 New - Hardcover
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Energy, Power, and Transportation Technology by Len S. Litowitz Publisher Comments Includes a study guide for each chapter, as well as hands-on activities that may be completed in the classroom or as homework.... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Africa's Power Infrastructure: Investment, Integration, Efficiency (Directions in Development) by Anton Eberhard Publisher Comments Africa 's chronic power problems have escalated in recent years into a crisis affecting 30 countries, taking a heavy toll on economic growth and productivity. The region has inadequate generation capacity, limited electrification, low power consumption... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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Photovoltaics System Design and Practice by Heinrich H?berlin Publisher Comments This book gives a broad overview to the topic before looking at solar radiation and its energy potential. The design and operation of solar cells are treated in detail, but only so far as it is necessary to understand operation and possible operational... (read more) Your price: $119.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Who Turned Out the Lights?: Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis by Scott Bittle Publisher Comments From the editors of PublicAgenda.org, an entertaining, irreverent, and absolutely essential nonpartisan guide to the energy crisis Energy: It's a problem that never goes away (despite our best efforts as a nation to ignore it). Why has there been so... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Solid State Proton Conductors by Philippe Knauth Publisher Comments Proton conduction can be found in many different solid materials, from organic polymers at room temperature to inorganic oxides at high temperature. Solid state proton conductors are of central interest for many technological innovations, including... (read more) List Price $149.95 Your price: $144.33 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Ocean Wave Energy Conversion by Michael E. Mccormick Publisher Comments This volume will prove of vital interest to those studying the use of renewable resources. It presents physical and mathematical descriptions of the nine generic wave energy conversion techniques, along with their uses and performance characteristics... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy by Seth Fletcher Publisher Comments The sleek electronic tools that have become so ubiquitous—laptops, iPods, eReaders, and smart phones—are all powered by lithium batteries. Chances are youve got some lithium on your person right now. But aside from powering a mobile... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Power with Nature: Alternative Energy Solutions for Homeowners by Rex A. Ewing Publisher Comments Be your own power company and let Mother Nature provide the energy! By investing in affordable, new technologies, you can join the thousands of homeowners who get free electricity from the sun, wind and water. In this updated 2nd edition of Power With... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David Jc Mackay Publisher Comments Addressing the sustainable energy crisis in an objective manner, this enlightening book analyzes the relevant numbers and organizes a plan for change on both a personal level and an international scale—for Europe, the United States, and the... (read more) Your price: $49.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Energy Problem by Richard S. Stein Synopsis Most scientists now believe that carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere are rapidly increasing, and that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels is a principal cause. Thus, it is probable that this will affect the climate and lead to global... (read more) List Price $41.25 Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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