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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Energy Catastrophes | |
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| Fukushima | |
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| Meltdown | |
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| Radioactive Release | |
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| Radioactivity and Death | |
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| The Denver Dose | |
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| Bottom Line: What Should We Do? | |
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| The Gulf Oil Spill | |
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| The Deepwater Horizon Accident | |
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| Damage | |
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| Iatrogenic Disease | |
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| Global Warming and Climate Change | |
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| A Brief Introduction to Global Warming | |
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| Tipping Points | |
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| Local Variability | |
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| Hurricanes | |
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| Tornadoes | |
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| Polar Warming | |
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| The Hockey Stick | |
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| Sea Level Rise | |
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| Assuming It Is a Threat-Can We Stop Global Warming? | |
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| Geoengineering | |
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| The Global-Warming Controversy | |
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| The Energy Landscape | |
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| Recycled Energy | |
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| Energy Security | |
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| The Natural-Gas Windfall | |
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| Fracking and Horizontal Drilling | |
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| Shale Gas Reserves | |
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| Ocean Methane | |
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| Liquid Energy Security | |
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| Hubert's Peak | |
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| Shale Oil | |
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| Energy Productivity | |
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| Invest for a 17.8% Annual Return, Tax-Free, with No Risk | |
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| Invest for a 209% Annual Return, Tax-Free, with No Risk | |
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| Government Energy Productivity Policy | |
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| Other Great Investments | |
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| Cool Roofs | |
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| More Efficient Autos | |
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| Energy-Efficient Refrigerators | |
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| The McKinsey Chart | |
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| Feel-Good Measures That Don't Necessarily Work | |
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| Buses | |
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| Recycling Paper | |
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| Power Blackouts | |
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| The Smart Grid | |
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| A Case Study: Smart Meters in California | |
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| Alternative Energy | |
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| Solar Surge | |
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| The Physics of Sunlight | |
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| Solar Thermal | |
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| Photovoltaic Cells | |
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| Silicon | |
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| CdTe (Cadmium Telluride) | |
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| CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium Selenide) | |
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| Multijunction Cells | |
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| Solar-Cell Summary | |
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| Wind | |
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| Energy Storage | |
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| Batteries | |
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| The Physics and Chemistry of Batteries | |
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| The Future of Batteries | |
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| Bottled Wind: Compressed-Air Energy Storage (CAES) | |
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| Flywheels | |
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| Supercapacitors | |
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| Hydrogen and Fuel Cells | |
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| Natural Gas | |
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| The Coming Explosion of Nuclear Power | |
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| Blowing Up | |
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| Cost | |
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| Small Modular Nuclear Reactors | |
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| Running Out of Uranium? | |
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| Fukushima Deaths | |
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| Nuclear Waste Storage | |
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| The Coming Nuclear Explosion | |
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| Fusion | |
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| Tokamak | |
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| NIF, the National Ignition Facility | |
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| Beam Fusion | |
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| Muon Fusion | |
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| Cold Fusion | |
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| Biofuels | |
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| Ethanol from Corn | |
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| Biodegradable Is Bad? | |
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| Pseudo-biofuels | |
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| Ethanol from Cellulose | |
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| Ethanol from Algae | |
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| Synfuel and High-Tech Fossil Fuels | |
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| Synfuel | |
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| Coal Bed Methane | |
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| Coal Bed Gasification | |
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| Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) | |
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| Oil Sands | |
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| Alternative Alternatives: Hydrogen, Geothermal, Tidal, and Wave Power | |
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| Hydrogen | |
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| Geothermal | |
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| Tidal Power | |
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| Wave Power | |
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| Electric Automobiles | |
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| The Electric Auto Fad | |
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| Tesla Roadster | |
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| Chevy Volt | |
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| Nissan Leaf | |
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| Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles | |
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| Lead-Acid Batteries | |
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| Recharge Time | |
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| Effective Miles per Gallon | |
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| Ordinary Hybrids | |
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| Battery Challenges | |
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| Natural-Gas Automobiles | |
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| Fuel Cells | |
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| Clean Coal | |
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| What is Energy? | |
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| The Properties of Energy | |
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| Energy in Foods, Fuels, and Objects | |
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| Is Energy a Thing? | |
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| The Meaning of Energy | |
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| Energy as Taught to High School Students and College Freshmen | |
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| Energy as Taught to Sophomores | |
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| Energy as Taught to Juniors | |
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| Energy as Taught to Seniors and Graduates | |
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| The Beauty of Energy | |
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| Advice for Future Presidents | |
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| Energy Technology Policy | |
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| Energy Productivity | |
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| Natural Gas | |
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| Shale Oil | |
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| Synfuel | |
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| Hybrids and Plug-in Hybrids | |
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| Nuclear | |
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| Key Considerations | |
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| Global Warming and China | |
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| More on Energy Productivity | |
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| Electric Power Grid and Venture Capitalism | |
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| Subsidies | |
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| Energy Catastrophes | |
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| Beware | |
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| Beware of Fads | |
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| Beware of Risk-Benefit Calculations | |
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| Beware of the Precautionary Principle | |
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| Beware of Optimism Bias and Skepticism Bias | |
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| Beware of Aphorisms | |
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| Your Legacy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |