What You Need to Know About Energy (2008) / Chapter Skim
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A merican society, with a standard of living unprecedented in human history, can attribute a large measure of its success to increasingly sophisticated uses of energy. The strength of industry, the speed of transportation, the myriad comforts and conveniences of home and workplace, and the security of the nation all derive from ever more ingenious provision and application of various sources and forms of energy.
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into the Our appetite for energy appears boundless, but atmosphere, and most climate scientists believe traditional supplies are not. We are depleting that the buildup of those gases is the primary the planet's finite stores of fossil fuels millions cause of global warming in recent decades.
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tions continue to support substantial energy research. There is also growing technical and financial interest in renewable and sustainable SECURITY Our society relies on energy that is available when and where it is needed, is generally affordable at stable prices, and can be counted on in the near future.
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booklet is a step in that direction. In its role as adviser on science and technology policy matters Such efforts are especially consequential as to the federal government, the National Research worldwide consumption trends put increasing Council has conducted numerous studies on the pressure on traditional energy sources.
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