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Chapter 1: The Development of Energy

1. Laughton Johnston, Climate Change and Scotland: After the Flood. Triple Echo, 2003, p. 14.

2. Ralph Nansen, Sun Power: The Global Solution for the Coming Energy Crisis. Ocean Shores, WA: Ocean Press, 1995, p. 3.

3. Johnston, Climate Change and Scotland, p. 15.

4. Quoted in Arizona Business Gazette, "Renewable Energy," August 14, 2003. www.azcentral.com/abgnews/articles/0814RENEW 14.html.

5. Melvin A. Benarde, Our Precarious Habitat. New York: W.W. Norton, 1970, p. 323.

6. John J. Berger, Charging Ahead. New York: Henry Holt, 1997, p. 3.

7. Steve Kretzmann, Foreword, in , Jennifer Carless, Renewable Energy: A Concise Guide to Green Alternatives . New York: Walker, 1993, p. vii.

8. Berger, Charging Ahead, pp. 3–4.

9. Laurie Burnham, ed., Renewable Energy: Sources for Fuels and Electricity. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1993, p. 1.

Chapter 2: Solar Power

10. Carless, Renewable Energy: A Concise Guide to Green Alternatives, p. 34.

11. John Schaeffer, Solar Living Source Book. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2002, p. 61.

12. Carless, Renewable Energy: A Concise Guide to Green Alternatives, p. 26.

13. Richard Golob and Eric Brus, The Almanac of Renewable Energy. New York: Henry Holt, 1993, p. 125.

14. Golob and Brus, The Almanac of Renewable Energy, p. 125.

15. Carless, Renewable Energy: A Concise Guide to Green Alternatives, p. 34.

Chapter 3: Wind Power

16. Quoted in Northwest Science & Technology, "How Will We Power Our Future?" Autumn 2002, p. 19.

17. Quoted in Wind Energy Weekly, "Construction Begins on First Phase of 250-MS Wind Project," March 1, 1999. www.awea. org/wew/837-2.htm.

18. Quoted in Renewable Northwest Project, "New Net-Metering Standard Benefits Pacificorp Customers, Region's Economy and the Environment," June 23, 2003. www.rnp.orgh/News/pr_IDNETMETERJUNE03.html.

19. Quoted in Schaeffer, Solar Living Source Book, p. 140.

20. Quoted in White Wave, "White Wave Invests in Wind to Fuel Soy Manufacturing," February 3, 2003. www.whitewave.com/index.php?id=108&pid=27.

Chapter 4: Hydropower

21. Quoted in Modern Wonders, "Modern Wonders: Itaipú Dam," January 16, 2000. www.ce.eng.usf.edu/pharoos/wonders/Modern/itaipu.html.

Chapter 5: Geothermal Power

22. Quoted in Northwest Science & Technology, "How Will We Power Our Future?" p. 22.

Epilogue: Looking Toward a Sustainable Future

23. Renewable Northwest Project, "New Net-Metering Standard Benefits Pacificorp Customers, Region's Economy and the Environment."

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