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Power up! : learn about energy / by Vogel, Julia.;
LSC
Subjects: Power resources;
© c2011, Child's World,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Excited about energy / by Higgins, Nadia.; Martínez Ricci, Andrés.;
Describes different types of energy.LSC
Subjects: Power resources;
© c2009., Magic Wagon,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Energy use / by Jakab, Cheryl;
Facing global issues -- What's the issue? -- Energy issues around the globe -- Issue 1 High energy demand -- Issue 2 Limited oil supplies -- Issue 3 Pollution from burning coal -- Issue 4 Running out of wood -- Issue 5 Problems with energy alternatives --Discusses the most urgent energy supply issues around the globe, including high demand for energy, limited supply of nonrenewable fossil fuel, pollution and global warming, running out of renewable resources, and problems with new alternative fuel.
Subjects: Power resources; Energy consumption;
© 2008., Smart Apple Media,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Energy makes things happen / by Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker.; Meisel, Paul.;
Simple language and humorous illustrations show how energy comes originally from the sun and can be transferred from one thing to another.
Subjects: Force and energy.; Power resources.; Energy transfer.;
© c2003., HarperCollins,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Energy : a human history / by Rhodes, Richard,1937-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time--wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford. In Energy, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He addresses how we learned from such challenges, mastered their transitions, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also looks at the current energy landscape, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100. Human beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each adaptation brought further challenges, and through such transformations, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes's singular style, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow.
Subjects: Energy development; Energy development; Power resources; Power resources;
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Energy : heat, light, and fuel / by Stille, Darlene R.; Boyd, Sheree.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 24) and index.Discusses the different forms of energy, where energy comes from and what energy allows us to do.LSC
Subjects: Force and energy; Power resources; Force and energy.; Power resources.;
© c2004., Picture Window Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Save energy, save Earth / by Szymanski, Jennifer.;
"Use your reading superpowers to learn all about how we could help Earth by saving energy"--
Subjects: Energy conservation; Power resources;
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Energy / by Oxlade, Chris.; Jennings, Terry J.;
"Explains essential facts about energy, including the difference between kinetic and potential energy, different energy sources, and how energy changes and is transferred. Includes experiments."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Force and energy; Power resources;
© 2009., Smart Apple Media,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Unstoppable : harnessing science to change the world / by Nye, Bill.; Powell, Corey S.,1966-;
The former host of "Bill Nye the Science Guy" challenges common misunderstandings about global warming while outlining the scientific community's potential for solving key energy and environmental problems.
Subjects: Climate change mitigation.; Climatic changes.; Energy consumption.; Global warming.; Power resources.;
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More and more and more : an all-consuming history of energy / by Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste,author,translator.; Orr, David W.,1944-translator.; translation of:Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste.Sans transition.English.;
Includes bibliographical references."It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's devastating but unnervingly entertaining book shows what an extraordinary delusion this is. Far from the industrial era passing through a series of transformations, each new phase has in practice remained almost wholly entangled with the previous one. Indeed the very idea of transition turns out to be untrue. The author shares the same acute anxiety about the need for a green transition as the rest of us, but shows how, disastrously, our industrial history has in fact been based on symbiosis, with each major energy source feeding off the others. Using a fascinating array of examples, Fressoz describes how we have gorged on all forms of energy-with whole forests needed to prop up coal mines, coal remaining central to the creation of innumerable new products and oil still central to our lives. The world now burns more wood and coal than ever before. This book reveals an uncomfortable truth: 'transition' was originally itself promoted by energy companies, not as a genuine plan, but as a means to put off any meaningful change. More and More and More forces its readers to understand the modern world in all its voracious reality, and the true nature of the challenges heading our way"--
Subjects: Energy consumption; Energy development; Energy industries; Energy transition.; Power resources; Science; Technology;
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