Review of solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security

Energy and Environmental Science

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 148-173

  Jacobson, Mark Z ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION MORTALITY; CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE; CHEMICAL POLLUTION; COMMERCIAL SECTOR; CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER; CORN-ETHANOL; DAMAGE REDUCTION; ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRICITY SOURCE; ENERGY SECURITY; ENERGY SOURCE; FLEX-FUEL; HUMAN MORTALITY; HYDROGEN FUEL CELL VEHICLES; LOAD BALANCER; MORTALITY RISK; MW WIND TURBINE; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY FACILITIES; NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION; OPPORTUNITY COSTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; URANIUM ENRICHMENT; VEHICLE TYPES; WILDLIFE DAMAGE; WORLD WAR II;

AIR QUALITY; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANES; COAL; COAL INDUSTRY; COAL STORAGE; COMPUTER OPERATING PROCEDURES; ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILES; ETHANOL; FUEL CELLS; GLOBAL WARMING; HEALTH RISKS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN FUELS; LAND USE; LIQUID FUELS; LIQUIDS; NUCLEAR POWERED VEHICLES; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SOLAR ENERGY; URANIUM; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY; WIND POWER;

THERMAL POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CELLULOSE; COAL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR POWER; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POWER GENERATION; SECURITY; SOLAR POWER; WAVE POWER; WIND POWER;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 65649109694     PISSN: 17545692     EISSN: 17545706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b809990c     Document Type: Review

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