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Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"How do we heat our homes, light our rooms, and power our cars? With energy! In 2014, the United States relied on fossil fuels for about 67 percent of its power. But as the fossil fuel supply dwindles and climate change becomes an increasingly urgent issue, individuals, businesses, and governments are expanding their sources of renewable energy, including solar, wind, biofuel, hydro, and geothermal. In Renewable Energy: Discover the Fuel of the Future...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Our rapidly industrializing world has an insatiable hunger for energy and conventional sources are struggling to meet demand. Oil is running out, coal is damaging our climate, many nations are abandoning nuclear, yet solar, wind, and water will never be a complete replacement. The solution, says Daniel Clery in this deeply researched and revelatory book, is to be found in the original energy source: the Sun itself. There, at its center, the fusion...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Solar energy, once a niche application for a limited market, has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's more, its potential is nearly limitless -- every hour the sun beams down more energy than the world uses in a year. But in Taming the Sun, energy expert Varun Sivaram warns that the world is not yet equipped to harness erratic sunshine to meet most of its energy needs. And if solar's current surge peters out, prospects...
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Explore six renewable energy technologies that are used around the world! Accessible verse and lush illustrations introduce children to important information about how we can harness the planet's natural resources including wind, water and sun. Inset boxes define new words like "turbine," while extensive endnotes further explain the science behind each power source and the benefits of clean energy" --
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Is a global pandemic what it took to show us that saving our planet is possible? In the absence of motorized boats and gondolas, Venice’s waters have returned to a sparkling blue color. Deer have been spotted roaming cities in Italy, and mountain goats recently took over a small seaside town in Wales. Taking advantage of the decreased boat traffic, whales have returned to roaming Vancouver’s harbours. The absence of “regular” human activities...
14) Poop is power!
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
How much power is in poop? Discover the biofuel technology that turns human and animal waste into energy for everything from cooking to powering up entire buildings.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what's wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A five-alarm documentary that explores the shocking realities of the impending oil crisis. Drawing on an international cast of maverick energy experts and thinkers, they debunk the conventional wisdom that oil production will continue to climb and more.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Recent changes in the global production and flow of energy have remade the world. In this book, the author reveals the forces shaping the future of energy, both renewable and fossil fuel. The New Map offers a new vision of the world's energy reserves and, therefore, the future of geopolitics"--
19) Solar energy
Author
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"For the past few centuries, fossil fuels have generated most of our world's energy. But these fuels pollute the environment, and they will eventually run out. Today, scientists are developing cleaner and more sustainable sources of power. Alternative Energy examines several of these promising technologies, as well as the science behind them. Learn how the energy sources of the future can change our world for the better."--Publisher's description....
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains how the heat from the Sun can be used as a source of energy; describes how it works; and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using it as a renewable energy source and possible future developments.
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