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Electrify

Electrify

Electrify

An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future

by Saul Griffith

ISBN: 9780262545044

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 4, 2022

An optimistic—but realistic and feasible—action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything.
Extracting Accountability

Extracting Accountability

Extracting Accountability

Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility

by Jessica M. Smith

ISBN: 9780262542166

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 28, 2021

How engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries attempt to reconcile competing domains of public accountability.
Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy

Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy

Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy

Contexts of Creation and Reception

by Kenneth L. Caneva

ISBN: 9780262045735

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 3, 2021

An examination of the sources Helmholtz drew upon for his formulation of the conservation of energy and the impact of his work on nineteenth-century physics.
Energy and Civilization

Energy and Civilization

Energy and Civilization

A History

by Vaclav Smil

ISBN: 9780262536165

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 13, 2018

A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization.
Modernizing America’s Electricity Infrastructure

Modernizing America's Electricity Infrastructure

Modernizing America's Electricity Infrastructure

by Mason Willrich

ISBN: 9780262036795

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 13, 2017

A comprehensive, coherent strategy for modernizing America's electricity infrastructure while ensuring affordable, reliable, secure, and environmentally sustainable electricity services.
Cheap and Clean

Cheap and Clean

Cheap and Clean

How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming

by Stephen Ansolabehere and David M. Konisky

ISBN: 9780262529686

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 7, 2016

How Americans make energy choices, why they think locally (not globally), and how this can shape U.S. energy and climate change policy.
Power Density

Power Density

Power Density

A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses

by Vaclav Smil

ISBN: 9780262529730

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 2, 2016

The first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, and all common energy uses.
Unlocking Energy Innovation

Unlocking Energy Innovation

Unlocking Energy Innovation

How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System

by Richard K. Lester and David M. Hart

ISBN: 9780262525145

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 13, 2013

Experts outline a plan to overhaul the U.S. energy innovation system for accelerated, large-scale adoption of reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy technologies.
The End of Energy

The End of Energy

The End of Energy

The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence

by Michael J. Graetz

ISBN: 9780262518673

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 8, 2013

Forty years of energy incompetence: villains, failures of leadership, and missed opportunities.
Sustainable Energy

Sustainable Energy, second edition

Sustainable Energy

Choosing Among Options

by Jefferson W. Tester, Elisabeth M. Drake, Michael J. Driscoll, Michael W. Golay and William A. Peters

ISBN: 9780262017473

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 28, 2012

The second edition of a widely used textbook that explores energy resource options and technologies with a view toward achieving sustainability on local, national, and global scales.
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