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Lights on! : the science of power generation / Mark Denny.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Denny, Mark, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Energy conversion.
- Energy storage.
- Renewable energy sources.
- Power resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For those who wish to delve deeper into the science, a technical appendix provides estimations for a variety of power generators.Anyone who is interested in how energy works and how it is transformed to power our lives will get a charge out of Lights On!.
- Contents:
- Newton's legacy
- What all the world wants
- The vital spark
- Old king coal
- The seven sisters-old and new
- Water, water, everywhere
- Too cheap to meter
- Here comes the sun.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0997-6
- OCLC:
- 867740732
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