Renewable energy: Current and potential issues

BioScience

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1111-1120

  Pimentel, David ^a   Herz, Megan ^a   Glickstein, Michele ^a   Zimmerman, Mathew ^a   Allen, Richard ^a   Becker, Katrina ^a   Evans, Jeff ^a   Hussain, Benita ^a   Sarsfeld, Ryan ^a   Grosfeld, Anat ^a   Seidel, Thomas ^a  

^a Program on Infrastructure Policy   (United States)

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EID: 18744408837     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2002)052[1111:RECAPI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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