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11. Wang Ying and John Duce, “Uranium Bottoming as China Boosts Stockpiles,” Bloomberg News, July 12, 2010. www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-11/uranium-bottoming-as-china-boosts-stockpiles-with-10-000-tons-from-cameco.html (accessed September 7, 2010).

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14. Ibid, 10.

15. “Military Warheads as a Source of Nuclear Fuel,” World Nuclear Association, October 2009. www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf13.html (accessed October 30, 2010).

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18. Ibid, 2.

19. “Clean Coal or Dirty Coal?” Alternative Energy Blog. http://alt-e.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html (accessed September 7, 2010).

20. Smil, Energy Transitions, appendix 1.

21. Bartlett, “Arithmetic, Population and Energy.”

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23. T.W. Patzek and G.D. Croft, “A Global Coal Production Forecast with Multi-Hubbert Cycle Analysis,” Energy, 35:3109–3122.

24. Alternative Energy Outlook 2006 with Projections to 2030,” U.S. Energy Information Administration, December 2005. eia.gov/oiaf/archive/aeo06/excel/figure102_data.xls (accessed September 7, 2010).

25. Peter Fairley, “China’s Coal Future,” Technology Review, January 1, 2007. www.technologyreview.com/energy/18069/ (accessed September 7, 2010).

26. Euan Mearns, “The Chinese Coal Monster,” Energy Bulletin, July 12, 2010. www.energybulletin.net/node/53411 (accessed September 7, 2010).

27. C. Lowell Miller, “Coal Conversion—Pathway to Alternate Fuels,” Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy. January 19, 2007, 15. www.futurecoalfuels.org/documents/011907_miller.pdf (accessed November 5, 2010).

28. “Simmons Oil Monthly—Solar Energy Overview,” Simmons & Company International, February 16, 2006, 1.

29. Dennis Avery, “Biofuels, Food or Wildlife? The Massive Land Costs of U.S. Ethanol,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, September 21, 2006. cei.org/gencon/025,05532.cfm (accessed September 7, 2010).

30. “How the Palm Oil Industry Is Cooking the Climate,” Greenpeace International, 2007. www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/palm-oil-cooking-the-climate.pdf (accessed September 7, 2010).

31. Suzanne Goldenberg, “US Navy Completes Successful Test on Boat Powered by Algae,” The Guardian, October 27, 2010. www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/27/us-navy-biofuel-gunboat (accessed October 28, 2010).

32. “2016 Levelized Cost of New Generation Resources from the Annual Energy Outlook 2010,” U.S. Energy Information Association, January 12, 2010. www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/electricity_generation.html (accessed October 30, 2010).

33. Personal conversation with David Murphy, an EROEI researcher.

Chapter 18: Why Technology Can’t Fix This

1. Robert Hirsch et al, “Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management,” Energy Bulletin, March 6, 2005. www.energybulletin.net/node/4638 (accessed November 8, 2010).

Chapter 19: Minerals: Gone with the Wind

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