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... example , gas pressure in a region of the grid drops below a threshold , pilot lights go out and huge ( probably nonexistent ) armies must be rapidly deployed to go into millions of buildings and turn off valves . Recovering from such a ...
... example , gas pressure in a region of the grid drops below a threshold , pilot lights go out and huge ( probably nonexistent ) armies must be rapidly deployed to go into millions of buildings and turn off valves . Recovering from such a ...
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... examples of significant innovations involving large numbers of small , relatively simple devices . For example , 54 percent of the houses in Vermont can now heat with wood stoves ( not just fireplaces ) , and 6 percent have wood - fired ...
... examples of significant innovations involving large numbers of small , relatively simple devices . For example , 54 percent of the houses in Vermont can now heat with wood stoves ( not just fireplaces ) , and 6 percent have wood - fired ...
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... example . Some elements of the denuclearization program considered here for the U.S. have been proposed before . There is , of course , a vast literature on ways to inhibit military nuclear competition - various combinations , for example ...
... example . Some elements of the denuclearization program considered here for the U.S. have been proposed before . There is , of course , a vast literature on ways to inhibit military nuclear competition - various combinations , for example ...
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analysis assumed Atomic Energy bombs building capacity capital cost central Chapter coal cogeneration collector commercial conservation countries devices distribution district heating dollars economic electricity energy policy energy quality energy systems enriched ERDA example facilities fission fluidized bed fossil fuel fuel cycle future gas turbines grid growth hard path hard technologies heat pump IAEA Ibid industrial installed Institute investment Law efficiency less Lovins marginal ment military nuclear power Nuclear Proliferation nuclear weapons percent percent/y political potential power stations primary energy problem process heat production projections proliferation R.H. Williams reactor grade plutonium reprocessing plant require safeguards scale Science Second Law efficiency social society soft energy path soft path soft technologies solar heating solar space heating storage structure supra note 18 technical fixes temperature tion U.S. Congress U.S. nuclear United uranium utility Washington waste