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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 Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-286) and index....
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Out of Gas : the End of the Age of Oil (04 Edition)
by David Goodstein Publisher Comments With its easy-to-grasp explanations of the science behind every aspect of our most urgent environmental policy decisions, "Out of Gas" is a handbook for the future of civilization....
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A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World
by Peter Tertzakian Publisher Comments In 2006, world oil consumption will exceed onethousand barrels per second. The news marks animportant change that will have a far-reachingimpact on world economies, investments, and businessprofitability. In A Thousand Barrels a Second, Chief...
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Energy: A Beginner's Guide
by Vaclav Smil Publisher Comments Delightful reading yet always scientifically rigourous, this invaluable guide shows how every aspect of our existence is linked with energy?s sources, flows, conversions and uses....
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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 quintessential eco-fuel. This invisible, tasteless gas is the most abundant element in the universe. It is the basic building block and fuel of stars and an essential raw material in innumerable biological and chemical processes. As a...
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Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia
by Rachel Bronson Publisher Comments For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which sorely tested that relationship. In Thicker than Oil, Rachel Bronson reveals why the partnership became so intimate and how the countries...
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Insurmountable Risks the Dangers of Us
by Brice Smith Book News Annotation As concerns about global warming driven by the use of fossil fuels mount, there is a growing chorus of voices promoting nuclear energy as a safe, economical solution. Smith (senior scientist, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research) disagrees...
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Scientific American : Oil and the Future of Energy: Solutions Beyond Carbon From Today's Top Scientists (07 Edition)
by Scientific American Publisher Comments With their impeccable reputation for top science reporting, the editors of Scientific American present influential information from the most important scientists and science writers in Oil and the Future of Energy. This one volume is an unparalleled...
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Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
by Jeff Goodell Publisher Comments In the tradition of Rachel Carson and Eric Schlosser, the veteran journalist Jeff Goodell examines the danger behind President George W. Bush's recent assertion that coal is America's economic destiny. Despite a devastating, century-long legacy...
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Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
by Richard Heinberg Publisher Comments A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book tells how we might make the transition from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty....
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Crude: The Story of Oil
by Sonia Shah 
Publisher Comments "Shah...has written a book that couldn't be more relevant." -"USA Today" <P>"Required reading for all who care about the future of this country and the planet as a whole."- "The Nation"<P>"This is not a Michael Moore-style anti-corporate rant-...
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SVO: Powering Your Vehicle with Straight Vegetable Oil
by Forest Gregg Publisher Comments The benefits of straight vegetable oil (SVO) as an alternate fuel for diesel engines are many. SVO is cheap, carbon-neutral, uses a waste product, and does not depend upon centralized corporate infrastructure. Authors Christopher Goodwin and Forest Gregg...
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Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank
by Lisa Margonelli
Publisher Comments Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry: the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day. Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second...
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Tomorrow's Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet
by Peter Hoffman Publisher Comments How hydrogen--nonpolluting and easy to produce--could become the fuel of the future....
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Futurespan: A New Declaration of Independence
by Dan Hodges Synopsis Forging a workable solution to America's energy crisis. There is a way to span from our current energy crisis to an era of clean, sustainable, secure, and affordable energy--if we act now....
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Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth
by Matthew Yeomans Publisher Comments A] well-researched, informative book, one of the best on the subject. --The Washington Post Matthew Yeomans begins his investigation into the role of oil in America by trying to spend a day without oil--only to stumble before exiting the bathroom...
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Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil
by Nicholas Shaxson Publisher Comments Each week the oil and gas fields of sub-Saharan Africa produce well over a billion dollars’ worth of oil, an amount that far exceeds development aid to the entire African continent. Yet the rising tide of oil money is not promoting stability and...
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The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat
by Eric Roston Publisher Comments The story of carbon—the building block of life that is, ironically, humanity’s great threat . It could be said that all of us are a little alien—our bodies’ carbon atoms first shot forth from supernovas billions of years ago and...
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Renewable Energy Resources
by John Twidell Synopsis Every country in the world is seeking new energy sources as alternatives to fossil fuels. For the best use of such resources, we need to know how much is available, what the limitations are and how to make efficient devices which will harness the energy...
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Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia
by Marshall Goldman Publisher Comments In the aftermath of the financial collapse of August 1998, it looked as if Russia's day as a superpower had come and gone. That it should recover and reassert itself after less than a decade is nothing short of an economic and political miracle. Based on...
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