An exceptionally timely volume that weighs the costs and benefits of alternative energy sources and their implications for reducing energy consumption.
Brian C. Black is associate professor in the departments
of history and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State
University, Altoona, PA. He is the author of the Greenwood's Nature
and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life (2006) and
Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American Life
(2006).
Richard Flarend is associate professor of physics at
Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, PA.
Alternative Energy joins others in the 'Historical Guides to
Controversial issues in America' series, and is designed to provide
students with report and debate arguments in a sourcebook covering
the problems and promise of alternative fuels. It comes from an
associate professor in history and environmental studies and it
explores debates over alternative energy that have gathered force
in this century.
*Midwest Book Review*
…this book will work extremely well for lower-level students,
especially those writing papers or giving speeches on current
topics, and those who may not have a technical background. Summing
Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, two-year
technical program students, and general readers.
*Choice*
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