Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140) and index.
Contents:
1. Here Comes the Sun -- The Solar Energy Revolution -- The Dark Side of Solar Power -- DOE Releases Solar Futures Study Providing the Blueprint for a Zero-Carbon Grid -- Fact Sheet: President Biden Takes Bold Executive Action to Spur Domestic Clean Energy Manufacturing -- Biden-Harris Administration Announces $82 Million Investment to Increase Domestic Solar Manufacturing and Recycling, Strengthen the American Clean Energy Grid -- Cheaper Solar Power Means Low-Income Families Can Also Benefit--With the Right Kind of Help -- 2. A Mighty Wind -- The History and Future of Wind Power -- How Do Floating Wind Turbines Work? 5 Companies Just Won the First US Leases for Building Them Off California's Coast -- Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Expand U.S. Offshore Wind Energy -- After a Shaky Start, Airborne Wind Energy Is Slowly Taking Off -- Addressing Misinformation on Offshore Wind Farms and Recent Whale Mortalities -- 3. The Renewable Revolution -- Emerging Forms of Renewable Energy -- Wave Energy: Can Ocean Power Solve the Global Energy Crisis? -- Designing the Future of Wave Energy -- Blowhole Wave Energy Could Soon Be World's Cheapest Clean Power -- Biomass: A Renewable Reckoning -- The Environmental Impacts of Biomass Energy -- Major Fusion Energy Breakthrough to Be Announced by Scientists -- 4. Green Money? -- The Economics of Renewable Energy -- The Price of Energy Insecurity -- New Study: Clean Energy Transition Now Hard-Wired into the U.S. Economy -- Shell Hits the Brakes on Growing Renewables Unit After Record 2022 Profit -- Oil Companies Say They're Going Green, but Their Investments Tell Another Story -- A Rapid Shift to Clean Energy Would Save the World 12 Trillion, Analysis Shows -- 5. Fueling the Debate -- Greenwashing and Petroleum Propaganda -- Misinformation Is Derailing Renewable Energy Projects Across The United States -- Fossil-Fuel Funded Opposition Is Blocking America's Clean Energy Transition: Permitting Reform Can Help -- Climate Misinformation on Social Media Is Undermining Climate Action -- Renewable Energy Is Maligned by Misinformation: It's a Distraction, Experts Say -- Clean Energy Is Thriving in Texas: So Why Are State Republicans Trying to Stifle It -- The GOP Donors Behind a Growing Misinformation Campaign to Stop Offshore Winds.
Summary:
Each year, scientists issue ever more dire warnings about the progress of climate change and its disastrous impact on humanity and all life on earth, and for many Americans, combating this destructive trend is a leading priority. One of the most important steps is to reduce dependence on "dirty energy" sources, like fossil fuels, and to shift to using renewable energy. This issue of The Reference Shelf looks at the renewable energy debate and draws from the press and politics to gather opinions about subjects like wind and wave energy, the future of solar energy, the challenge of designing eco-friendly energy storage, and the difficulties in tackling fossil fuel dominance in the energy industry. -- Publisher.
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