Traveling the Power Line - From the Mojave Desert to the Bay of Fundy

Informationen zum Autor Julianne Couch is an independent journalist and essayist. She is the author of Jukeboxes and Jackalopes: A Wyoming Bar Journey and Waking Up Western: Collected Essays. Klappentext Julianne Couch is an independent journalist and essayist. She is the author of Jukeboxes and Jackalopes: A Wyoming Bar Journey and Waking Up Western: Collected Essays. Zusammenfassung An informed! even-handed discussion of energy production and consumption on the global! national! regional! local! and - most important - personal level Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Of Megawatts and Meadowlarks: A Wyoming Wind Farm2. Angels and Monsters: A Wyoming Coal-Fired Power Plant3. Fission and Fishing: A Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant4. Solids, Liquids, and Gases: A Texas Gas Field5. Homegrown Revolution: An Iowa Biomass Research Facility6. Journey a Little Way into the Earth: A Utah Geothermal Plant7. Water, Water, Everywhere: A Kentucky Hydropower Plant8. Don't Let the Sun Go Down . . . without Capturing Its Energy: A Nevada Solar-Thermal Power Plant9. Harnessing the Moon: A Maine Tidal Power ProjectAfterwordA Note on Sources

Product details

• Authors: Julianne Couch, COUCH JULIANNE
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2013
• EAN: 9780803245068
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-4506-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Our Sustainable Future; Our Sustainable Future
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches