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1) The Betsy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. They face resistance from the president of the company (the patriarch's grandson), who wishes to eliminate the motor car division because of bad blood between himself and his grandfather."--Plot summary from www.imdb.com
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
In UNSTOPPABLE, Bill Nye crystallizes and expands the message for which he is best known and beloved. That message is that with a combination of optimism and scientific curiosity, all obstacles become opportunities, and the possibilities of our world become limitless. With a scientist's thirst for knowledge and an engineer's vision of what can be, Bill Nye sees today's environmental issues not as insurmountable, depressing problems but as chances...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
vii, 366 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
Fracking has vociferous critics and fervent defenders, but the debate between these camps has obscured the actual story: Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. It has upended the business models of energy companies around the globe, and it has started to change geopolitics and global energy markets in profound ways. Here the author tells the story of this once-obscure oilfield technology, a story with an incredible...
6) E?: Energy
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A six-part series featuring people and places around the globe where efforts are being made to improve our environment for the future. This series focuses on energy resources.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
viii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"An epic tale of invention, in which ordinary people's lives are changed forever by a quest that combines elements of the Olympics, NASCAR, Junkyard Wars, the Longitude Prize of 1714, and the Apollo program In 2006, science-fiction enthusiast Peter Diamandis announced he would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that traveled 100 miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. Anyone. The challenge attracted more...
Author
Series
Future according to Luz volume 1
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
95 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
When the city starts to be hit by regular blackouts, and Luz's mother has trouble affording gas and groceries, Luz decides that she will do what she can do in her own neighborhood, with her friends and neighbors, to become less reliant on fossil fuels.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A six-part series examines sustainable transportation alternatives with potentially far-reaching effects. Explores real solutions to pressing environmental and social challenges, presented with a combination of storytelling, cinematography and an original music score.
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