18
Fatih Birol, “Energy Economics: A Place for Energy Poverty in the Agenda?”
The Energy Journal
28, no. 3 (2007): 3, 4.
20
Sinha, “âIndoor' Air Pollution.”
21
“Viewpoints: An Interview with Professor Kirk R. Smith.”
26
Bryce, “Interview with Kirk R. Smith.”
Chapter 18
6
T. Boone Pickens and Ted Turner, “New Priorities for Our Energy Future,”
Wall Street Journal
, August 16, 2009,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB
10001424052970 203863204574348432504983734.html.
7
Amory Lovins, “Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?”
Foreign Affairs
, October 1976, 82.
8
Commercial paper makers have reportedly been producing ethanol from cellulose for years. But the quantities of ethanol being produced by the paper makers are nowhere close to the volumes envisioned by Congress for consumption as motor fuel.
9
Amory Lovins, E. Kyle Datta, Odd-Even Bustnes, Jonathan G. Koomey, and Nathan J. Glasgow,
Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security
(Snowmass, CO: Rocky Mountain Institute, 2004), executive summary, 3,
http://www.oilendgame.com/ExecutiveSummary.html
.
10
Lovins testimony, March 7, 2006.
11
S. David Freeman,
Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How
(Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2007), 176.
22
Jesse Ausubel, in his article in “The Future Environment for the Energy Business,”
APPEA Journal
(2007),
http://phe.rockefeller.edu/docs/ausubelappea.pdf
, 8, uses 0.4 W/m
2
. Note that Vaclav Smil, in
Energy: A Beginner's Guide
(Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006), 73, puts the sustainable power density of wood harvests at 0.2 W/m
2
.
23
Vaclav Smil,
Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003), 265. Smil puts corn ethanol at a maximum of 0.7 W/m
2
.
26
This assumes that the average distance to the Moon is 240,000 miles.
28
The math: 42.1 million acres / 640 acres per square mile = 65,781 square miles. Oklahoma covers 68,679 square miles.
29
There are about 440 million acres now planted in the United States. See Dennis Avery, “Biofuels, Food, or Wildlife? The Massive Land Costs of US Ethanol,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, September 21, 2006, Available:
http://cei.org/pdf/5532.pdf
, 6.
31
International Energy Agency, “Medium-Term Oil Market Report,” July 1, 2008, 20.
Chapter 19
17
Tomoko A. Hosaka, “Report.”
21
This is known as the “gravimetric” energy density. The other common measure is “volumetric” energy density.
25
Los Angeles Times
, “Edison's New Storage Battery,” May 19, 1901, 8.
26
New York Times
, “Foreign Trade in Electric Vehicles,” November 12, 1911, C8.
27
Washington Post
, “Prophecies Come True,” October 31, 1915, E18.
28
Joseph C. Ingraham, “Old Electric Car May Be the Car of Tomorrow,”
New York Times
, July 26, 1959, X19.
29
Bob Thomas, “AMC Does a Turnabout: Starts Running in Black,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 17, 1967, K10.
30
Jerry Knight, “GM Unveils Electric Car, New Battery,”
Washington Post
, September 26, 1979, D7.
31
Washington Post
, “Plug 'Er In?” June 7, 1980, A10.