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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Julianne Couch, COUCH JULIANNE
• Edition: University of Nebraska Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.03.2013
• EAN: 9780803245068
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-4506-8
• Pages: 240
• Thèmes: Our Sustainable Future; Our Sustainable Future
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Nature, technique > Nature et société: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Physique, astronomie > Physique atomique et nucléaire; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Economie > Branches spécifiques de l'économie