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EnergyFiles

This meta-site for energy science searches over 500 databases and websites.

A Decade of Discovery / U.S. Dept. of Energy

This website/book describes government funded science at the National Laboratories and its implications in energy, national security and physics.
GOVPUBS. E 1.2:D 63/6

The potential of photovoltaics : preprint / B.P. Nelson

Utility-scale solar power : opportunities and obstacles : field hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, March 17, 2008.

Characterization and analysis of small business energy costs / Andy Bollman, E.H. Pechan & Associates, Inc.

20% wind energy by 2030 : increasing wind energy’s contribution to U.S. electricity supply / produced for the U.S. Department of Energy by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Department of Defense energy strategy : teaching an old dog new tricks / Gregory J. Lengyel.

Energy savings estimates of light emitting diodes in niche lighting applications / prepared for Building Technologies Program, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy ; prepared by Navigant Consulting Inc.

Alternative transportation fuels : an overview : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session April 18, 2007.

Automated energy distribution and reliability system : validation integration - results of future architecture implementation / D.L. Buche.

Biofuels impact on food prices: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, to receive testimony on the relationship between the United States’ renewable fuels policy and food prices, June 12, 2008.

Clean coal, oil and gas development : new energy opportunities through carbon capture and storage: hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, special hearing, August 13, 2007, Bismarck, ND.

Clean energy technologies: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, to receive testimony regarding legislation to improve the availability of financing for deployment of clean energy and energy efficiency technologies and to enhance United States’ competitiveness in this market : specific bills to be considered are S. 3233, introduced by Senator Bingaman and S. 2730, introduced by Senator Domenici, July 15, 2008.

Developing untapped potential : geothermal and ocean power technologies : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, May 17, 2007.

Coal : a clean future : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, April 26, 2007.

Domestic energy industry : hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, to receive testimony on whether domestic energy industry will have the workforce--crafts and professional, November 6, 2007.

Energy in the Americas : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, July 31, 2008.

Future energy needs : hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, to receive testimony on the challenges to meeting future energy needs and to developing the technologies for meeting increased global energy demand in the context of the need to address global climate change, June 25, 2008.

Fuel / edited by John Knechtel.

TP318 .F84 2008

Renewable energy / Jacqueline Langwith, book editor.

TJ808.2 .R44 2009

Alternative fuels : current status, proposals for new standards, and related infrastructure issues: hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, May 8, 2007.

GOVPUBS. Y 4.C 73/8:110-42

Efficiency : the hidden secret to solving our energy crisis: hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, July 30, 2008.

GOVPUBS. Y 4.EC 7:S.HRG.110-664

Coal/ Michael Logan, book editor.

TN800 .C63 2008

Fueling our future : an introduction to sustainable energy / Robert L. Evans.

TJ163.2 .E86 2007

Energy alternatives / Barbara Passero, book editor.

TJ808.2 .E628 2006

Geothermal energy : clean power from the Earth’s heat / by Wendell A. Duffield and John H. Sass.

GOVPUBS. I 19.4/2:1249

Energy for the 21st century : a comprehensive guide to conventional and alternative sources / Roy L. Nersesian.

HD9502.A2 N465 2007

Energy : its use and the environment / Roger A. Hinrichs, Merlin Kleinbach.

PHYS SC. TJ163.9 .H55 2006