Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power-plants
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Role of Aging and Once-through-cooled Power Plants in California : an Update
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power-plants
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Reinventing Fire
Author: Amory LovinsPublisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603583726
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Imagine fuel without fear. No climate change. No oil spills, no dead coalminers, no dirty air, no devastated lands, no lost wildlife. No energy poverty. No oil-fed wars, tyrannies, or terrorists. No leaking nuclear wastes or spreading nuclear weapons. Nothing to run out. Nothing to cut off. Nothing to worry about. Just energy abundance, benign and affordable, for all, forever. That richer, fairer, cooler, safer world is possible, practical, even profitable-because saving and replacing fossil fuels now works better and costs no more than buying and burning them. Reinventing Fire shows how business-motivated by profit, supported by civil society, sped by smart policy-can get the US completely off oil and coal by 2050, and later beyond natural gas as well. Authored by a world leader on energy and innovation, the book maps a robust path for integrating real, here-and-now, comprehensive energy solutions in four industries-transportation, buildings, electricity, and manufacturing-melding radically efficient energy use with reliable, secure, renewable energy supplies.Popular in tone and rooted in applied hope, Reinventing Fire shows how smart businesses are creating a potent, global, market-driven, and explosively growing movement to defossilize fuels. It points readers to trillions in savings over the next 40 years, and trillions more in new business opportunities.Whether you care most about national security, or jobs and competitive advantage, or climate and environment, this major contribution by world leaders in energy innovation offers startling innovations will support your values, inspire your support, and transform your sense of possibility.Pragmatic citizens today are more interested in outcomes than motives. Reinventing Fire answers this trans-ideological call. Whether you care most about national security, or jobs and competitive advantage, or climate and environment, its startling innovations will support your values, inspire your support, and transform your sense of possibility.
High Risk: The California State Auditor Has Designated Electricity Production and Delivery as a High-Risk Issue
Author: Elaine M. HowlePublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437918123
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
In May 2007 the Calif. Auditor included the production and delivery of electricity to its list of high-risk issues. Since Calif¿s. restructuring of the electricity industry in the late 1990s and the subsequent energy crisis of 2000 and 2001, the electricity sector has continued to evolve. The actions the State and other market participants have taken have decreased the risk of another energy crisis. However, these stakeholders continue to work to resolve issues and to further refine the actions taken to alleviate the earlier energy crisis. This report also identifies significant new issues and challenges in the electricity sector that the State faces, which have the potential to influence the supply of electricity, its transmission, and consumer rates. Illustrations.
Thermal Efficiency of Gas-fired Generation in California
Author: Michael NybergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Combined cycle power plants
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy
Author: Juliet Christian-SmithPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199939381
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
It is zero hour for a new US water policy! At a time when many countries are adopting new national approaches to water management, the United States still has no cohesive federal policy, and water-related authorities are dispersed across more than 30 agencies. Here, at last, is a vision for what we as a nation need to do to manage our most vital resource. In this book, leading thinkers at world-class water research institution the Pacific Institute present clear and readable analysis and recommendations for a new federal water policy to confront our national and global challenges at a critical time. What exactly is at stake? In the 21st century, pressures on water resources in the United States are growing and conflicts among water users are worsening. Communities continue to struggle to meet water quality standards and to ensure that safe drinking water is available for all. And new challenges are arising as climate change and extreme events worsen, new water quality threats materialize, and financial constraints grow. Yet the United States has not stepped up with adequate leadership to address these problems. The inability of national policymakers to safeguard our water makes the United States increasingly vulnerable to serious disruptions of something most of us take for granted: affordable, reliable, and safe water. This book provides an independent assessment of water issues and water management in the United States, addressing emerging and persistent water challenges from the perspectives of science, public policy, environmental justice, economics, and law. With fascinating case studies and first-person accounts of what helps and hinders good water management, this is a clear-eyed look at what we need for a 21st century U.S. water policy.
Wind Energy Comes of Age
Author: Paul GipePublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471109242
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
He cites improvements in the performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness of modern wind turbines to support his contention that wind energy has come of age as a commercial technology.
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Review of the Nuclear Emergency in Japan and Implications for the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear SafetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Sales of Firm Electric Power for Resale, by Private Electric Utilities, by Federal Projects, by Municipals
Author: United States. Federal Power Commission. Office of Accounting and FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Water, Peace, and War
Author: Brahma ChellaneyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442221402
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
This pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing global water crunch on international peace and security. Writing in a direct, non-technical, and engaging style, Brahma Chellaney draws on a wide range of research from scientific and policy fields to examine the different global linkages between water and peace. Offering a holistic picture and integrated solutions, his book promises to become the recognized authority on the most precious natural resource of this century and how we can secure humankind’s water future.