Energy sources: conservation and renewables

Abstract

The physics community conducted a summer study at Princeton University on the efficient use of energy during the summer of 1974; the AIP book containing this study (AIP 25, 1975) has been the largest selling AIP Conferences Series book to date. The subject 1985 AIP conference proceedings is published under the following headings: technical progress and policy options (5 chapters); energy and buildings (7 chapters), windows, lighting, appliances, and HVAC (5 chapters); industrial and automotive (2 chapters), and electricity and renewables (9 chapters). Also, 10 appendices relevant to the subject are included. A separate abstract was prepared for each of the 28 chapters for the Energy Data Base (EDB); 10 are included in Energy Research Abstracts (ERA) and 21 in Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis (EAPA).