TY - BOOK AU - Prentiss,Mara Goff TI - Energy revolution: the physics and the promise of efficient technology SN - 9780674725027 (alk. paper) AV - TJ 163.2 P927e 2015 U1 - 333.793/2 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Recursos energéticos KW - Consumo de energía KW - Conservación de energía N1 - Includes and index; Introduction: U.S. energy use : Past, present, and future -- Overview of renewable energy -- Electric power for a renewable future -- Electricity from water -- Electricity from wind -- Electricity from the sun -- Combining renewable energy sources -- Distributing electricity -- Conserving energy -- Storing energy -- Consequences of consuming energy -- Conclusion: A renewable future -- Appendix A: Carnot efficiency -- Appendix B: Electricity from heat -- Appendix C: Recommended steps toward a renewable future N2 - "Energy can be neither created nor destroyed -- but it can be wasted. The United States wastes two-thirds of its energy, including 80 percent of the energy used in transportation. So the nation has a tremendous opportunity to develop a sensible energy policy based on benefits and costs. But to do that we need facts -- not hyperbole, not wishful thinking. Mara Prentiss presents and interprets political and technical ER -