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Musgrove, P. – Physics Education, 1978
Explores the possibility of installing offshore windmills to provide electricity and to save fuel for the United Kingdom. Favors their deployment in clusters to facilitate supervision and minimize cost. Discusses the power output and the cost involved and urges their quick development. (GA)
Descriptors: Depleted Resources, Ecology, Electricity, Energy
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Childs, P. E. – Education in Chemistry, 1978
Looks at the potential of wood as a chemical raw material to replace the dwindling supplies of fossil fuels as a source of hydorcarbons and, to a lesser degree, of energy. (GA)
Descriptors: Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, Depleted Resources, Ecology
Clearing, 1990
Discussed is the idea that the use of fossil fuels could render Earth uninhabitable long before supplies of them are exhausted. Possible solutions to this problem are described and include a revolution in technology, worldwide economic strategies, and a change in the way people think. (KR)
Descriptors: Alternative Energy Sources, Conservation (Environment), Depleted Resources, Ecology