Clean Energy Nation: Freeing America from the Tyranny of Fossil Fuels

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Index

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305

Obama, Barack, 105, 120, 123

Ocean Renewable Energy Group, 225

ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC),

61–62

ocean thermal energy technology, 98

ocean waves, energy from, 60

oceans, 114–117

acidification, 166–167

carbon dioxide in, 114–115

heat dispersal, 115

level increase, 112, 113, 165, 179

oil spills, 108

offshore drilling, 104

Oge, Margot, 85

oil, 35

consumption, 17

hidden costs, 4

pollution risk in Gulf of Mexico, 4,

104–106, 108

Oil Creek Valley (Pennsylvania), 36

oil industry

political power, 78

reframing scientific debate by, 82

Rockefeller investment in, 37

U.S. production decline, 14

world production decline, 15

oil prices, and food costs, 161–162

“oil sand,” 16

oil shale, 16

oil subsidies, 153

oil tankers, 93, 107–108

oil wars, 96

“oil well,” 36

O’Keefe, William, 82

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum

Exporting Countries), 44–46, 91, 148

oil embargo of 1973, 4, 14, 45

Organization for Economic Cooperation and

Development (OECD), 123, 190–191

embargo, 128

O’Shaughnessy Dam, 59

Pacheco Pass Wind Farm, 126

Pacific Gas & Electric, 171

Page, Larry, 205

pain relievers, 184

Paleocene Eocene Thermal maximum, 115

passive systems of solar power use, 50

Pathways Out of Poverty program, 197

peak oil problems, and global warming,

96–98

Pennsylvania, oil wells, 36

permafrost, 113, 119

Permian Age, 119

Persians, 32

Peterson, Collin, 249

PetroChina, 99

petroleum

release into environment, 106–107

U.S. transportation and, 145

see also oil

pharmaceutical companies, 184

photons, 28

photosynthesis, 29

photovoltaic technology, 51, 168, 208

phytoplankton, 114

Piltz, Rick, 81

pitch, 32

Pithole Pennsylvania, 36

plankton, 167

polar ice caps, 111

political instability, 95

population of world, growth, 23–24

prairie grass, ethanol from, 169

productivity

extreme weather impact on, 129–130

power outages and, 134

Program for International Student

Assessment Survey, 190–191

pseudoscience reports, 82–83

public, media role in educating, 199

public health, 237–241

public officials, unethical behavior,

77–78

public transportation, 146, 152–154

Al Qaeda, 68, 93

Qatar, 44

radioactive waste, disposal, 122–123

railroad industry, 155

Randall, Doug, 94

Raser Technologies, 98

Reagan, Ronald, 254

Renewable Energy for Agriculture Program,

226

renewable energy, from farms, 167–173

Republic Cloverleaf Solar, 209–210

Republican Party, petroleum industry

contributions to, 78

Republicans for Environmental Protection

(REP), 249