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Energy - Minerals - Environment: How Now Brown Cow?, Bobby G. Wixson
Energy - Minerals - Environment: How Now Brown Cow?, Bobby G. Wixson
UMR-MEC Conference on Energy / UMR-DNR Conference on Energy
Energy, technical, social, political, economic, and environmental problems are all people related problems which will continue to increase along with the world's population. With the growing demands for more energy and minerals along with the constraints of protecting the environment, new approaches must be considered to these complex problems.
Energy sources, modifications, alternatives, and new developments must be considered for the present as short term resources (next 25- 30 years) and in the future as long range research necessary to develop and implement new technology (25 years on). Major energy sources and their environmental considerations are generally classified as:
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