Introduction to Energy in California

Zusatztext "This informative paperback is one that even those who don't live in the Golden State will find interesting." Informationen zum Autor Peter Asmus ! President of Pathfinder Communications! is a journalist! consultant! and author of Reaping the Wind: how Mechanical Wizards and Profiteers Helped Shape Our Energy Future! among other books. Art Rosenfeld is California Energy Commissioner and Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of California! Berkeley. Energy journalist Arthur O'Donnell is executive director of the Center for Resource Solutions. Zusammenfassung Examines the human history of California's earliest oil and hydroelectricity developments. This covers such controversial sources as nuclear reactors and liquefied natural gas. This guide provides a discussion of oil, nuclear power, coal, emerging alternative technologies, and renewable sources including geothermal, solar, wind, and hydropower.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Asmus
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.2009
• EAN: 9780520257511
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25751-1
• No. of pages: 444
• Series: California Natural History Guides; California Natural History Gui; California Natural History Guides
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Mechanics, acoustics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches