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TOC WC: 724;CC: 3,961 Contents List of Tables and Figures Preface Chapter 1. Are We on Easter Island? Easter Island The Mathematics of Extinction Progress Is Our Most Important Product The Unremitting Rise in Population The Case of Double Exponential Growth A Lesson in Fish From Hunting to Farming Energy Depletion Notes Chapter 2. Electricity and the Utility Industry It Takes Energy to Make Energy Energy for Electricity Generation Enhancing Efficiency in Electricity Generation Early History of Electricity Generating Electricity Generating Electricity Commercially System Operation Methods of Rate Regulation Operating Models of an Era of Deregulation/Liberalization Utility Pools When Demand Exceeds Supply The Real Lesson of California Notes Chapter 3. Biomass Yesterday's Fuel Today's Fuel China India Indonesia Brazil Biomass as a Motor Vehicle Fuel Biomass for Electricity Generation Biogas Tomorrow's Fuel Notes Chapter 4. Coal The First Energy Crisis The Origin and History of Coal Coal and the Industrial Revolution Coal and Railroads Coal and Steel The Rise and Gall of King Coal Types of Coal Coal Mining Coal Today Role of Coal Among the Major Consumers The Case Against Coal Clean Coal Technologies Eliminating Coal Not So Easy Notes Chapter 5. The Story of Big Oil History of Lighting History of Oil Enter John D. Rockefeller Enter Marcus Samuel Spindletop Spindletop and Shell The Emergence of Oil as a Strategically Vital Commodity The Era of the Seven Sisters Opening Up the Middle East Early Attempts at Oil Price Controls Enter Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Exit the Key Players Shareholders and Stakeholders Development of Saudi Arabia's Oil Fields The Shoes Begin to Fall The Next Shoe to Fall The Birth of OPEC The 1973 Oil Crisis The Era of High Oil Prices The End of the Era of High Oil Prices The Era of Moderate Oil Prices It's Not Oil Prices Any More, It's Oil Security Oil and Diplomacy Oil and Environmentalists Role of Oil Companies After the Oil Crisis A Changing World Are Oil Companies' Margins All That Great? The Future Role of Oil Companies Notes Chapter 6. Oil The Earth as an Oil Manufacturer Formation of Oil Oil Exploration Drilling Rights Drilling Equipment Directional Drilling Offshore Drilling Rigs Evaluating a Well Completing a Well Moving the Oil to the Well Maintaining Reservoir Pressure Getting the Oil to a Refinery Tankers and Barges Oil Spills Refining Oil Reserves Are We on the Downward Slippery Slope? Comparison of Major Discoveries versus Consumption Was 2004 a Watershed Year? Synthetic Crude Challenge of Oil: The Automobile Alternative Fueled Vehicles Enhancing Engine Efficiency Internalizing an Externality Is This Politically Acceptable? Notes Chapter 7. Natural Gas Background Early History of Coal Gas History of Natural Gas The Battle Over Lighting Long Distance Transmission Federal Regulation The War Years Opening Up the Northeast Last Stop Before Total Regulation Unraveling Natural Gas Regulation The Road to Deregulation From Source to Consumer Natural Gas as a Fuel The European Version of Deregulation LPG: Prelude to LNG Liquefied Natural Gas Organizing and Financing the LNG Supply Chain LNG Carriers LNG Pricing The Future of LNG Gas to Liquids (GTL) Technology Methane from Coal Methane from Shale Methane Hydrates Notes Chapter 8. Nuclear and Hydro Power Background What Does a 1,000 Megawatt Plant Mean? Physics of a Nuclear Reactor Nuclear Incidents and Accidents Three Mile Island Incident Chernobyl Weapons Proliferation Disposal of Spent Fuel Commercial Reactors Fusion Power Future of Nuclear Power Hydropower The Saga of the Hoover and the Glen Canyon Dams Aswan High Dam Notes Chapter 9. Sustainable Energy Meaning of Sustainability Geothermal Energy Wind Energy Objections to Wind Power Evaluating a Potential Site Financial Incentives Small Can Be Beautiful Solar Energy Thermal Solar Energy Photovoltaic Energy Economics of Solar Power Ocean Energy Sustainable Energy and Economic Development A Sustainable Energy Action Plan Notes Chapter 10. Looking Toward the Future The Hydrogen Economy Hydrogen Stores Electricity Tomorrow's World of Hydrogen Climate Climatic Changes During Recorded History Where is Climate Headed? Carbon Dioxide Conundrum Projecting the Future The Environment The U.S. Clean Air Acts The Montreal Protocol The Kyoto Protocol Efficiency and Conservation Energy Star Program Light Emitting Diodes (LED) CAFE Standards Notes Chapter 11. An Energy Strategy Oil An Unlikely Projection Scarcity Playing Itself Out Increasing Supply Decreasing Demand Internalizing and Externality A Plan to Get Out of the Middle East Pollution We Need Time Notes Index About the Author
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Power resources.
Energy policy.