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| Preface | |
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| List of units | |
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| List of conversion factors | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Climate | |
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| Greenhouse Earth | |
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| The science of the greenhouse effect | |
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| Climate modeling | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The first climate models | |
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| Climate change goes big time | |
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| The big problem: lifecycle of greenhouse gases | |
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| The global carbon cycle | |
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| Other greenhouse gases | |
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| Geoengineering | |
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| The past as proxy for the future | |
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| A short tour through 4.5 billion years | |
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| The past 400 000 years | |
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| The recent past | |
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| Predicting the future | |
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| Who does it? | |
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| How is it done? | |
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| Results | |
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| Where are we? | |
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| Energy | |
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| Talking up arms against this sea of troubles | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Energy now and in the future | |
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| Market exchange and PPP | |
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| Emission targets | |
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| Carbon dioxide equivalents | |
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| How fast to move: a physicist's look at the economists | |
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| Energy, emissions, and action | |
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| Setting the stage | |
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| Sources of emissions | |
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| Energy and greenhouse emission from fossil fuels | |
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| Reducing emissions | |
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| No silver bullets | |
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| Winners and losers | |
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| Fossil fuels - how much is there? | |
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| World oil reserves | |
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| World gas reserves | |
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| World coal | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Electricity, emissions, and pricing carbon | |
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| The electricity sector | |
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| Pricing carbon emissions: carbon capture and storage | |
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| Does what goes into storage stay there? | |
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| Summary and conclusion | |
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| Efficiency: the first priority | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Primary and end-use energy efficiency | |
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| Transportation | |
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| Buildings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| CAFE standards | |
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| Nuclear energy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Radiation | |
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| Safety | |
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| Spent fuel: love it or hate it, we have it | |
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| Economics | |
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| Proliferation of nuclear weapons | |
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| Nuclear power as part of the solution | |
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| Nuclear power primer | |
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| France's long-range nuclear development plan | |
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| Producing material for weapons | |
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| Extract from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons | |
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| Issues in internationalizing the fuel cycle | |
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| Renewables | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Wind | |
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| Solar energy | |
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| Geothermal | |
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| Hydropower | |
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| Ocean energy | |
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| The electric power distribution grid | |
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| Photovoltaic cells | |
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| Biofuels: is there anything there? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Phase-1: ethanol from starch and sugar | |
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| Phase-2: cellulosic ethanol | |
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| Phase-3: other processes | |
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| Summary | |
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| An energy summary | |
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| Policy | |
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| US policy - new things, bad things, good things | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reducing emissions on a national scale | |
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| Bad things | |
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| Good things | |
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| World policy actions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Kyoto-1: the Protocol of 1997 | |
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| Kyoto-2 | |
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| Coda | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |