Energy and The Environment (Volume 11)
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8170993717
Length
viii+397p., Figures; Tables; References; 23cm.
Subjects
The 1970s saw a revolution in thinking about energy supplies. No longer were they regarded as cheap, expandable and practically inexhaustible. The ‘Oil crisis’ of 1973 led to the realization that fossils fuels were finite, precious, and likely to be increasingly expensive. Although much of the world continued to depend on animal power for motive energy, and on wood, charcoal, animal dung for fuel, unexceptionably in the middle of the present century. Many ...
