In addition to reducing GHGs and alleviating the global pressure on fossil fuels, renewable energy resources aid developing countries in many ways EXCEPT
Answer: cheaper energy technology
Social Science
- The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 was part of an ongoing conflict between Israel and neighboring states that finds its origins in the
- According to 1995 estimates, what is the MOST common use for geothermal energy in the U.S.?
- The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), opened for signature in 1992, did not
- What is the world's largest hydroelectric dam?
- The primary goals of OPEC are to ensure that
- Which of the following species was listed as endangered when the Endangered Species Act was passed and has since been deemed recovered?
- Captain Hyman Rickover received help from Edward Teller to design and build the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus. Edward Teller is notable for having done what?
- In response to demands by Annex I-designated countries like the United States that undeveloped or developing countries be required to meet standards they are expected to maintain, those countries argued in response that
- Which federal official decides when to withdraw crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
- In answer to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its indictment of the pesticide DDT, this president commissioned a study on pesticides.
- One of the primary conclusions of the IPCC is that carbon dioxide concentrations will do this by 2100 if we continue with "business as usual".
- Paul Ehrlich in Population Bomb (1968) made suggestions to reduce the global population EXCEPT
- The Energy Policy and Conservation Act established the strategic petroleum reserve and in 1977, the first mass purchase of oil was made. What country sold the U.S. this oil?
- As a result of Love Canal's community activism and demonstration of the dangers of toxic waste locales, this president created legislation that would aid communities in handling such disasters.
- As a result of Love Canal's community activism and demonstration of the dangers of toxic waste locales, this president created legislation that would aid communities in handling such disasters.