. "1 Context and Challenges." America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation: Summary Edition. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2009.
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America’s Energy Future: Technology and Transformation - Summary Edition
maries of the study’s key findings (Chapter 2) and of the technology assessments (Chapter 3) of Part 2.
Part 2 contains six chapters (Chapters 4–9), which document the committee’s detailed assessments of energy-supply and end-use technologies. The topics addressed in these chapters are, specifically,
Energy efficiency in transportation, industry, and residential and commercial buildings (Chapter 4)
Production and use of alternative transportation fuels, in particular biofuels as well as fuels derived from converting coal, or mixtures of coal and biomass, into liquids (Chapter 5)
Production of renewable energy such as wind, solar, and geothermal energy, as well as hydropower and biopower (Chapter 6)
Domestic fossil-fuel energy, particularly as coupled with technologies that would capture and safely store CO2 (Chapter 7)
Production of electricity from nuclear energy (Chapter 8)
Electricity transmission and distribution systems that reliably accommodate intermittent energy supplies such as solar and wind and sophisticated demand-side energy efficiency technologies (Chapter 9).
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