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After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying to revive a dying field, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Projects Team are tapped by the President of the United States to find out what's gone wrong. The trail leads them to a brilliant billionaire in the alternative energy field. Her goal is the end of the oil age; her company has spent billions developing the worlds' most advanced fuel-cell systems. But is she an environmental...
3) Sea of greed
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English
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The world's oil supply is vanishing, the stock market is plummeting, and the key to saving the future seems to be a baffling historical mystery. Can the NUMA crew crack it in time? Sea of Greed is the suspenseful new NUMA Files novels from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure.
After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying to revive a dying field, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special...
After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying to revive a dying field, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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English
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A student working on a fusion energy source is pursued by the government when he finds out too much about the "accidental" death of his professor/mentor. A student machinist finds himself caught in a maze of secret government cover-ups, hi-tech espionage and murder after working on a groundbreaking scientific experiment. Eddie Kasalivich and Lily Sinclair are part of a team of scientists who have developed a revolutionary new source of energy. But...
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Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Explore six renewable energy technologies that are used around the world! Accessible verse and lush illustrations introduce children to important information about how we can harness the planet's natural resources including wind, water and sun. Inset boxes define new words like "turbine," while extensive endnotes further explain the science behind each power source and the benefits of clean energy.
8) Green energy
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Series
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Starry Forest Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
2021 edition.
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English
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"Did you know that you can light a house using the power of the sun and the wind? Or that rotting garbage can be used to make energy? Discover how energy is everywhere, and uncover how clean energy can be harnessed to save the environment"--Publisher marketing.
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
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English
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". . . Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist explain how clean energy quickly replaced fossil fuels in such places as Sweden, France, South Korea, and Ontario. Their people enjoyed prosperity and growing energy use in harmony with the natural environment. They didn't do this through personal sacrifice, nor through 100 percent renewables, but by using them in combination with an energy source the Swedes call k�arnkraft, hundreds of times safer and cleaner...
11) Wind power
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Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Can you name a free, clean, and renewable energy source? The answer is blowing in the wind. Discover how the historic windmill has become today's wind turbine and learn about the prospects for wind power in the future.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Transforming energy is a documentary about the hope of alternative energy as a solution to the problems of global warming and the end of cheap oil and gas. It takes us into the lives, the passion, the commitment and the hard work of the people who are on the ground now, working to create a new energy paradigm.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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This program stresses the importance of caring for our environment and provides an overview of multiple energy sources such as biomass and solar energy. It documents how some states are trying to enact laws that require local power plants to increase their power provided by renewable energy. To preserve our planet's health, scientists explore green projects involving ecologically friendly architecture and sustainable communities with solar homes and...
16) Monster power
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Ms. Frizzle takes the class on a camping trip, but Arnold is worried about monsters, and sets out to create a "Monster Scaring Perimeter" powered by a generator to keep the lights on--and in the process the class learns about sources of clean energy (and maybe monsters).
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Offers readers a . . . look into the race to develop and use renewable energy sources. Learn about how the United States is using energy from the sun, wind, and other sources to fight climate change"--Provided by publisher.
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Numerous laws - including the Green New Deal - have been proposed or passed in cities, states, and countries to transition from fossil fuels to 100% clean, renewable energy in order to address climate change, air pollution, and energy insecurity. This textbook lays out the science, technology, economics, policy, and social aspects of such transitions. It discusses the renewable electricity and heat generating technologies needed; the electricity,...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Alternative energy sources are being researched and developed to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Fluctuating costs of oil, coal and natural gas, along with their possible negative effects on the environment, has made energy sources such as wind and solar more cost-competitive with fossil fuels. More energy strikes the Earth in an hour than humans need in a year. We are now hard at work developing a variety of technologies to convert its power...
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