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Extracting Accountability
Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility
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
Contexts of Creation and Reception
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
A History
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
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
How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming
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
A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses
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
How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System
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 Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence
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, second edition
Sustainable Energy
Choosing Among Options
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.
Extracting Accountability
Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility
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
Contexts of Creation and Reception
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
A History
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
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
How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming
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
A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses
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
How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System
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 Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence
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, second edition
Sustainable Energy
Choosing Among Options
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.