The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal CitiesPredicts a rise in ocean levels throughout the next few decades and more catastrophic weather patterns that are threatening some of the nation's largest cities, identifying the consequences of the past century's consumption of fossil fuels. |
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replaced every American vehicle now on the road with gas - electric hybrids
similar to the Toyota Prius I drive today , our national gas consumption would ...
On average , only 34 percent of the fuel they burn is actually converted into
electricity .
replaced every American vehicle now on the road with gas - electric hybrids
similar to the Toyota Prius I drive today , our national gas consumption would ...
On average , only 34 percent of the fuel they burn is actually converted into
electricity .
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This baby sipped electricity , providing all the freezer services and refrigerator
space of my old model while using the electricity equivalent of a fifty - watt
incandescent lightbulb . With all this it must have been designed for the Space
Shuttle ...
This baby sipped electricity , providing all the freezer services and refrigerator
space of my old model while using the electricity equivalent of a fifty - watt
incandescent lightbulb . With all this it must have been designed for the Space
Shuttle ...
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news is that at roughly twenty - five cents per kilowatt hour , solar power is
several times more expensive than conventional electricity and therefore not yet
ready for commercial - scale production the way wind is . But every time demand
for ...
news is that at roughly twenty - five cents per kilowatt hour , solar power is
several times more expensive than conventional electricity and therefore not yet
ready for commercial - scale production the way wind is . But every time demand
for ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Why Do Societies Commit Suicide? | 33 |
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| Título | The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities |
| Autor | Mike Tidwell |
| Editor | Free Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 1416560246, 9781416560241 |
| Largo | 196 páginas |
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