Soft Energy Paths: Towards a Durable Peace
Soft Energy Paths serves as an important historic milestone: an intelligent and convincing argument for conservation and the use of renewable energy.
Soft Energy Paths serves as an important historic milestone: an intelligent and convincing argument for conservation and the use of renewable energy.
Energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the United States off oil and coal by 2050 cheaply and easily, by integrating sectors as well as innovations.
The UAE has appointed a company named Masdar to create the most environmentally sustainable city in the world that may serve as a model for future generations.
Over the last two centuries, human beings have come to rely on ever-increasing quantities of energy to fuel their rising numbers and improving standards of living. In this volume of RCC Perspectives, scholars from around the world consider how our relationship to energy has changed, why it has changed, and how it may change in the years to come.
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Hans-Peter Dürr receives this prize for his advocating of sustainable energy solutions.
James C. Williams’s history of energy development and use in California.
The author argues that the analysis of historical energy systems can provide an explanation for the basic patterns of different social formations.
The American company Bell Laboratories develops the first operational modern solar cell.
German physicist Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect.