Title Energy and energy use / editor, Craig W. Allin.

Publication Info.	Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource (vi, 147 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.
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Series	Encyclopedia of environmental issues
	Encyclopedia of environmental issues.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents	Alternative energy sources -- Alternative fuels -- Alternatively fueled vehicles -- Atomic Energy Commission -- Biomass conversion -- Biopiracy and bioprospecting -- Breeder reactors -- Brundtland Commission -- Carbon footprint -- Chalk River nuclear reactor explosion -- Chelabinsk nuclear waste explosion -- Chernobyl nuclear accident -- Coal -- Coal-fired power plants -- Cogeneration -- Compact fluorescent lightbulbs -- Corporate average fuel economy standards -- Department of Energy, U.S. -- Ducktown, Tennessee -- Earth resources satellites -- Earth-sheltered construction -- Electric vehicles -- Electronic waste -- Energy conservation -- Energy-efficiency labeling -- Energy policy -- Energy Policy and Conservation Act -- Ethanol -- Forest management -- Fossil fuels -- Gasoline and gasoline additives -- Geographic information systems -- Geothermal energy -- Grazing and grasslands -- Green revolution -- Hanford Nuclear Reservation -- Heat pumps -- Hoover Dam -- Hybrid vehicles -- Hydroelectricity -- Hydrogen economy -- Internal combustion engines -- International Atomic Energy Agency -- International Institute for Sustainable Development -- Light pollution -- Love Canal disaster.
Summary	Discusses the use of both fossil and alternative fuels as well as renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation.
Subject	Energy conservation -- Encyclopedias.
	Energy consumption -- Encyclopedias.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Energy.
	SCIENCE -- Energy.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Power Resources -- General.
	Energy conservation. (OCoLC)fst00909912
	Energy consumption. (OCoLC)fst00909986
	Energy consumption -- Environmental aspects.
	Environmental sciences.
	Power resources -- Environmental aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Encyclopedias.
	Reference works.
	Encyclopedias.
	Reference works.
Added Author	Allin, Craig W. (Craig Willard)
Other Form:	Print version: Allin, Craig W. Energy and Energy Use. Pasadena : Salem Press, ©2011 9781429836746
ISBN	9781587659256 (electronic bk.)
	1587659255 (electronic bk.)

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