Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index.
Contents:
As the demand for electricity increases, China sticks with nuclear power / Fuel without the fossil / Keith Bradsher. Clean power, off the grid / David J. Hayes -- Paying in pollution for energy hunger / Keith Bradsher -- Energy idea for Mars yields a clue for powering data centers / Diane Cardwell -- The connection between cleaner air and longer lives / Michael Greenstone -- Race is on to clean up hydraulic fracturing / Erica Gies -- How grid efficiency went south / Matthew L. Wald -- Cleaner China coal may still feed global warming / Keith Bradsher -- Public lives : a windmill builder, tilting at the old ways / Corey Kilgannon -- Sun is part of the plan for greener Hempstead / Matt Mabe -- Exploring the options -- Kelp farms and mammoth windmills are just two of the government's long-shot energy bets / Brad Plumer -- Gleaning clues on sunny days from the clouds / David Ferris -- A storage solution is in the air / Erica Gies Electrical charge helps sun shine on solar panels / Hillary Brenhouse -- Geothermal energy grows in Kenya / Amy Yee -- Airlines fly the skies on a sugar high / Amy Yee -- Canada produces strain of algae for fuel / Hillary Brenhouse -- No furnaces but heat aplenty in "passive houses' / Elisabeth Rosenthal -- Vast potential in the discomfort of howling winds / Louise Loftus -- Clean power that reaps a whirlwind / Keith Bradsher -- Indonesia seeks to tap its huge geothermal reserves / Hillary Brenhouse -- If earth were powered from space / Hillary Brenhouse -- Australia powers up the world's biggest battery : courtesy of Elon Musk / Adam Baidawi -- The business of clean energy -- Warren Buffett's big bet on renewables in Nevada / Felicity Barringer -- How producing clean power turned out to be a messy business / David Gelles -- Buying into solar power, no roof access needed / Diane Cardwell Why a big utility is embracing wind and solar / Justin Gillis and Hal Harvey -- Fuel from landfill methane goes on sale / Diane Cardwell -- Harnessing the net to power a green revolution / Beth Gardiner -- The challenges of cleaning up cooking / Beth Gardiner -- From oil to solar : Saudi Arabia plots a shift to renewables / Stanley Reed -- Trading pumps for plugs : we aren't there yet / Tom Zeller, Jr. -- The challenge of storing energy on a large scale / Erica Gies -- Coal's continuing decline / Jeff Nesbit -- What's up in coal country : alternative-energy jobs / Diane Caldwell -- Clean energy controversies -- Fight to keep alternative energy local stymies an industry / Diane Cardwell -- Solar trade case, with Trump as arbiter, could upend market / Diane Cardwell -- Reconciling clean energy and conservation / John Lorinc -- When solar panels became job killers / Keith Bradsherardwell For those near, the miserable hum of clean energy : the fight over wind power in Vinalhaven / Tom Zeller, Jr. -- As the demand for electricity increases, China sticks with nuclear power / Keith Bradsher.
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