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pro vyhledávání: '"Energy in the United States"'
Autor:
Neil Shafer Oatsvall
Demonstrates how policymakers influenced environmental science during the early nuclear age In Atomic Environments: Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960, Neil S. Oatsvall examines how top officials in the Truman and
Autor:
Roger Hedrick, John Lisman
ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, has been a benchmark for commercial building energy codes in the United States and a key basis for codes and standards around the world for more than
Autor:
Murphy, Loren
The Department of Defense (DOD) is the single largest consumer of energy in the federal government, spending billions of dollars annually on petroleum fuels to support military operations. One of DOD's strategic operational energy goals is to expand
Autor:
National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Committee on Research Frontiers in Bioinspired Energy
In May 2007, the National Academies Chemical Sciences Roundtable held a public workshop on the topic of Bioinspired Chemistry for Energy, where government, academic, and industry representatives discussed promising research developments in solar-gene
Using economic models and empirical analysis, this volume examines a wide range of agricultural and biofuel policy issues and their effects on American agricultural and related agrarian insurance markets. Beginning with a look at the distribution of
Autor:
George A. Gonzalez
What set the United States on the path to developing commercial nuclear energy in the 1950s, and what led to the seeming demise of that industry in the late 1970s? Why, in spite of the depletion of fossil fuels and the obvious dangers of global warmi
Autor:
PARINANDI, SRINIVAS
In recent years, the federal government’s increasing inability to address major societal challenges has arguably hampered America’s commitment to renewable energy initiatives. Individual U.S. states have stepped into this void and adopted their o
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61555
Autor:
J. Samuel Walker
Harry S. Truman's nuclear policies and programs are probably the most significant and controversial aspects of his presidency. The essays in this volume examine Truman's decision to use atomic weapons against Japan in 1945, one of the most contentiou
Autor:
DiPalma, Sonya R.
This fascinating and scholarly study analyzes the concept of framing in the context of nuclear energy. Framing is the tool used for highlighting information in order to perpetuate understanding within the body of a news story to fit the framer's agen
Autor:
Jonathan E. Helmreich
This is a comprehensive study of one of the most startling examples of dollar diplomacy--the effort of the United States and the United Kingdom to monopolize the free world's supply of uranium and thorium during and immediately following World War II