The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What's Blocking Clean Power in the United States

by Benjamin K. Sovacool

Book Overview

The American electric utility system is quietly falling apart. Once taken for granted, the industry has become increasingly unstable, fragmented, unreliable, insecure, inefficient, expensive, and harmful to our environment and public health. According to Sovacool, the fix for this ugly array of problems lies not in nuclear power or clean coal, but in renewable energy systems that produce few harmful byproducts, relieve congestion on the transmission...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313355401
• ISBN13: 9780313355400
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"