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Energy : choices for Europe.
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ISBN: 9789078910015 Year: 2007 Publisher: Brussels Bruegel


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Energy : yearly statistics.
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ISBN: 9789279064838 Year: 2007 Publisher: Luxembourg Office for official publications of the European Communities

Energy for the 21st century : a comprehensive guide to conventional and alternative sources
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ISBN: 0765613239 9786610912339 1280912332 0765622009 9780765622006 9781280912337 9780765613233 6610912335 Year: 2007 Publisher: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe,

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Provides a detailed analysis of the principle energy sources - biomass, coal, oil, natural gas, hydro and nuclear power - as well as sustainable sources, especially fuel cell technology. This work offers a survey of the early history and use of energy sources and the colorful expansion of Big Oil.

Energy autonomy: the economic, social and technological case for renewable energy.
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ISBN: 1844073556 9781844073559 9781849771122 9781136567179 9781136567216 9781136567223 Year: 2007 Publisher: London Earthscan

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For 200 years industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap carbon fuels. But continued reliance has lead to perilous consequences. On the one hand, the insecurity of relying on the world's most unstable region-the Middle East-compounded by the imminence of Peak Oil, growing scarcity, and mounting prices. Yet there is an answer: to make the transition to renewable sources of energy and to distributed, decentralized energy generation. It is a model that has been proven, technologically, commercially and politically, as Scheer comprehensively demonstrates. He shows that the widely advocated return to nuclear power is compromised and illusory. The energy autonomy route does not just avoid the harm from following business-as-usual, but also offers enormous additional positive benefits. Whole new industries will be created to stimulate the global economy and two billion people, who don't receive electricity now, will have access to it. The advantages are so clear and so overwhelming that resistance to them needs diagnosis, which Scheer also provides, showing why and how entrenched interests oppose the transition and what must be done to overcome these obstacles.

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