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Transition Engineering*
When one looks back over human existence, however, it is very evident that all culture
has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which
man nds himself.
Beatrice Hinkle
The purpose of this chapter is to present the fundamental ideas and methods of tran-
sition engineering. The majority of this book has provided technical information for
renewable energy conversion. The rst chapter gave an overview of the issues with
the unsustainable exploitation of energy, water, and land, and the issues of population
growth and environmental disruption. After ...