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Powering up Canada : a history of power, fuel, and energy from 1600 /
"With growing concerns about the security, cost, and ecological consequences of energy use, people around the world are becoming more conscious of the systems that meet their daily needs for food, heat, cooling, light, transportation, communication, waste disposal, medicine, and goods. Powering...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ;
6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An introduction to Canada's energy history / R.W. Sandwell
- Food energy and the expansion of the Canadian fur trade / George Colpitts
- Ox and horse power in rural Canada / J.I. Little
- Horse power in the modern city / Joanna Dean and Lucas Wilson
- Hewers of wood: A history of wood energy in Canada / Joshua MacFadyen
- Wind power: sails, mills, pumps, and turbines / Eric W. Sager
- Water power before hydroelectricity / Jenny Clayton and Philip Van Huizen
- Coal in Canada / Andrew Watson
- Hydroelectricity / Matthew Evenden and Jonathan Peyton
- Petroleum liquids / Steve Penfold
- Manufactured and natural gas / Colin A.M. Duncan and R.W. Sandwell
- Nuclear power / Laurel Sefton MacDowell
- Reflections, questions, and tentative conclusions / R.W. Sandwell.