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Energy transitions : history, requirements, prospects
- Title
- Energy transitions : history, requirements, prospects / Vaclav Smil.
- Author
- Smil, Vaclav.
- Publication
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, ©2010.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 178 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Describes the history of modern society's dependence on fossil fuels and the prospects for the transition to a nonfossil world. Vaclav Smil makes it clear that this transition will not be accomplished easily, and that it cannot be accomplished within the timetables established by the Obama administration. --from publisher description.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-166) and index.
- Contents
- Energy systems : their basic properties -- Global transitions : universal patterns -- National transitions : commonalities and particularities -- Coming transitions : expectations and realities.
- Call Number
- JBE 16-156
- ISBN
- 9780313381775
- 0313381771
- 9780313381782 (canceled/invalid)
- 031338178X (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2010002985
- OCLC
- 505017554
- Author
- Smil, Vaclav.
- Title
- Energy transitions : history, requirements, prospects / Vaclav Smil.
- Imprint
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, ©2010.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-166) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 16-156