Power of the people; America's new electricity choices

SciTech Book News, June, 2008

Power of the people; America's new electricity choices.

Tombari, Carol Sue.

Fulcrum Publishing

2008

195 pages

$14.95

Hardcover

Speaker's corner books

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The electricity infrastructure of the US is aging and based far too much on generating electricity with nonrenewable resources, according to Tombari (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US Department of Energy), but the good news is that alternative technologies that are both more efficient and better for the environment are already here. In this work she puts forth an argument for why we should be concerned with the situation and provides a general audience with a tour of the technologies to which we should transition: energy efficiency, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and (eventually) hydrogen fuel cells.

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