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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba Publisher Comments William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover 
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How to Convert Wood into Charcoal and Electricity by Richard H. Buxton Publisher Comments If you put wood into a pipe and heat it, gas, tar and water vapor will be driven off. You can pipe this gas around into the fire that is heating the pipe. When the whole unit cools, you can extract high grade charcoal. And we're talking about charcoal... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy by Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks Publisher Comments In 1961, President John F. Kennedy ignited America's Apollo Project and sparked a revolution in space exploration. Today the New Apollo Energy Project is poised to revolutionize the production of energy and thereby save our planet. The nation that built... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future by Jeff Goodell Publisher Comments Long dismissed as a relic of a bygone era, coal is back -- with a vengence. Coal is one of the nation's biggest and most influential industries -- Big Coal provides more than half the electricity consumed by Americans today -- and its dominance is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Alcohol Fuel: Making and Using Ethanol as a Renewable Fuel (Books for Wiser Living from Mother Earth News) by Richard Freudenberger Publisher Comments Dwindling petroleum supplies and growing environmental concerns are significantly impacting the cost of petro-fuel and its infrastructure. The search for alternative fuel sources has led to ethanol, a gasoline substitute that is already in the... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency by Matthew Stein Publisher Comments If ever there was one book to have when the lights go out, When Technology Fails is it. In this revised edition--the first edition was written pre-9/11 when global warming was still considered a fringe idea--author Mat Stein offers readers skills to make... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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Microhydro: Clean Power from Water by Scott Davis Publisher Comments Hydroelectricity is the world's largest-and cleanest-source of renewable -energy. But despite lively interest in renewables generally, there is an information vacuum about the smallest version of the technology dubbed "the simplest, most reliable and... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of 'Energy Independence' by Robert Bryce Publisher Comments A surprising, irreverent, and scrupulously reported deconstruction of today's fashions in energy policy. Everybody is talking about "energy independence." But is it really achievable? Is it actually even desirable? In this controversial, meticulously... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy by Gwyneth Cravens Publisher Comments In this eye-opening work that is certain to spark debate and influence policy decisions that will affect generations to come, Cravens examines both sides of the controversial debate over nuclear energy, and seeks answers from a host of experts in... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Alcohol Can Be A Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century by David Blume Publisher Comments For the last century it has been impossible to find reliable information on alcohol fuel production and use. Oil companies have continuously suppressed data on Henry Ford's favorite auto fuel. For example, by the late 80s, over 90% of the cars in Brazil... (read more) List Price $47.00 Your price: $32.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties by Vaclav Smil Publisher Comments Winner in the cover category of the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2003 competition presented by the American Institute of Graphic ArtsIn Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era by Jeremy K Leggett Publisher Comments Excessive burning of oil, gas, and coal is raising our planet's thermostat to unacceptable levels-a problem which as already resulted in increased natural catastrophes: storms, floods, droughts, and fire. Yet big oil companies have repeatedly hijacked... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank: The Complete Guide to Using Vegetable Oil as an Alternative Fuel by Joshua Tickell Publisher Comments As pollution envelops the world's cities, temperatures on planet Earth rise, and once rich oil fields run dry, researchers scramble to find solutions to the impending transportation crisis. But the fuel of the future may be hidden in places nobody... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Renewable Energy Handbook: A Guide to Rural Energy Independence, Off-Grid and Sustainable Living by William H. Kemp Publisher Comments As oil prices continue to rise, many people are starting to think about how to unhook from the electricity grid. The Renewable Energy Handbookfocuses completely on off-grid, sustainable living and rural energy independence. Author/engineer William H... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy by George A Olah Publisher Comments In this masterpiece, the renowned chemistry Nobel Laureate, George A. Olah and his colleagues discuss in a clear and readily accessible manner the use of methanol as a viable alternative to our diminishing fossil fuel resources. They look at the pros and... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy by Greg Pahl Publisher Comments When Rudolph Diesel invented his engine in the late nineteenth century, he envisioned a device that could run anywhere on a wide range of local fuels. A century later, Greg Pahl recalls that vision and shows us it is possible with Biodiesel: Growing a... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future by Vijay Vaitheeswaran Publisher Comments Oil is the problem. Cars are the solution. Those two simple sentences by the authors of Zoom define the scope of their illuminating and important book, an examination of a transformation in business and culture that is occurring before our eyes. We are... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Science Magazine's State of the Planet: With a Special Section on Energy and Sustainability by Donald Kennedy Publisher Comments Taken from the pages of Science and supplemented by contributions from the magazine’s editors, State of the Planet 2008-2009 offers contemporary science writing that is sometimes provocative, frequently enlightening, and always authoritative... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The New Solar Electric Home: The Photovoltaics How-To Handbook by Joel Davidson Publisher Comments The original Photovoltaics How-To Handbook, acclaimed as "the Best of the Books," is now revised, expandedandupdated for our New Age of Photovoltaics. Condensing years of hands-onandindustry experience, PV pioneers Joel DavidsonandFran Orner tell you... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin Publisher Comments The message of The Hydrogen Economy is resoundingly simple: The earth is depleting its oil reserves and even the most generous estimates show oil reserves peaking in about forty years. The specter of global warming and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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