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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"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. [...] Human beings have confronted the...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In UNSTOPPABLE, Bill Nye crystallizes and expands the message for which he is best known and beloved. That message is that with a combination of optimism and scientific curiosity, all obstacles become opportunities, and the possibilities of our world become limitless. With a scientist's thirst for knowledge and an engineer's vision of what can be, Bill Nye sees today's environmental issues not as insurmountable, depressing problems but as chances...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows -- ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity -- for their civilized existence....
7) Energy
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Find out about potential energy and kinetic energy. How does heat move from one substance to another? Why is renewable energy so important? Includes three simple activities or experiments to try.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book explains how coal, oil, and gas are really "buried sunlight," trapped beneath the surface of our planet for millions and millions of years. Now, in a very short time, we are digging them up and burning them, changing the carbon balance of our planet's air and water. What does this mean, and what should we do about it?
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Though it lies nearly 100 million miles away, the sun nourishes all life on Earth with its powerful energy. The sun is by far the most abundant source of energy on the planet. It keeps us warm, it helps plants grow, and it's even a great way to generate electricity. Readers (Grades 3-5) will learn all about solar power, from how it reaches our planet to which technology we use to capture its energy."-- provided by publisher.
13) Solar power
Author
Series
Publisher
Cheriton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Readers will find out why we burn fossil fuels, the harm it is causing, and why evolution in the solar power industry could make it a powerful weapon in the fight to create a sustainable future"--OCLC.
Author
Series
Council wars volume 4
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2008], c2006
Language
English
Description
Ina world thrown back to the Middle Ages after the computers that ran the place began a civil war between themselves, warrior Herzer Herrick and his lover Megan Trevante must capture the spaceship that supplies the world's power grid.
Author
Series
Dimension W volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"AD 2072. With the invention of cross-dimensional electromagnetic inductors known as Coils, the world's energy crisis has long been solved. Kyouma Mabuchi is a "Collector," someone who makes his living by recovering illegal Coils for the powers that be. When on his latest gig he crosses paths with a mysterious girl named Mira, little does he know that their meeting will bring them both closer to the secrets behind "Dimension W," the fourth dimension--beyond...
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--
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