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Alternative power sources and renewable energy
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This program demonstrates how wind turbines, solar cells, hybrid automobiles, and coal gasification plants are beginning to transform the way the world is powered. The U.S. Secretary of Energy, the...
This program demonstrates how wind turbines, solar cells, hybrid automobiles, and coal gasification plants are beginning to transform the way the world is powered. The U.S. Secretary of Energy, the director of the National Wind Technology Center, the CEO of Enron Wind Corporation, representatives of Worldwatch Institute and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and others discuss the challenge of satisfying the rapidly increasing global demand for energy while developing environmentally friendly forms of power generation to reduce air pollution and lessen the threat of global warming.
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- Creator
- Information Television Network
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2005], c1999
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (22 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781421368504
- OCLC
- ocn707968452
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on May 12, 2005.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Introduction to Alternative Power (5:59) -- Wind Farms (4:58) -- Solar Energy (2:52) -- New Automotive Technology (2:39) -- High Tech Power Plant (3:22)