Renewable energy cannot sustain a consumer society

Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-197

  Trainer, Ted ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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