Sources and Resources for “A Bridge to the Renewable Energy Future”
Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres, Crossing the Energy Divide: Moving from Fossil-Fuel Dependence to a Clean Energy Future, Wharton School Publishing (imprint of Prentice Hall), New York, 2010 (publication date January 20, 2010).
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Books by Robert Ayres and others on energy and economic growth:
The Economic Growth Engine: How Energy and Work Drive Material Prosperity, with Benjamin Warr (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K., 2009)
Industrial Ecology: Towards Closing the Materials Cycle, with Leslie W. Ayres (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K., 1996)
Turning Point: An End to the Growth Paradigm, (Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, 1998; Chinese translation, Shanghai Translation Publishers, 2000)
Accounting for Resources: Economy-wide Applications of Mass-Balance Principles to Materials and Waste, with Leslie W. Ayres (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K., 1998)
Articles on exergy and energy efficiency by Robert Ayres and others:
"Thermodynamics & economics," with Indira Nair, Physics Today 37, 1984: 62-71. (Reprinted in: R. Krishnari, J. M. Harris and N. R. Goodwin (eds), A Survey of Ecological Economics (Series: Frontier Issues in Economic Thought) I, Island Press, Covelo, 1995; Japanese translation in Kagaku 55 (4), 1985: 204-214. )
"Energy inefficiency in the U.S. economy: A new case for conservationism," IIASA Research Report RR-89-12, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, November 1989.
"Exergy, power, and work in the U.S. economy, 1900-1998" with Leslie W. Ayres and Benjamin Warr, Energy 28(3) pp. 219-273, March 2003.
"On the efficiency of U.S. electricity use since 1900" with Leslie W. Ayres and Vladimir Pokrovsky, Energy 30 (7), June 2005 pp. 1092-1145.
"Economic growth models and the role of physical resources" with Benjamin Warr in P. Bartelmus (ed. ) Unveiling Wealth: On Money, Quality of Life and Sustainability; Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2002.
"Exergy: Reference states and balance conditions" with Andrea Massini, in Cutler Cleveland, editor, Encyclopedia of Energy, Vol. 2. Elsevier, 2004.
"Energy myth #8: The U.S. energy system is environmentally and economically optimal",with Thomas R. Casten. Energy and Society: Twelve Myths. B. Sovacool and M. Brown (Eds.), Kluwer: Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2007.
"Technology, competitiveness and the environment", World Economic Forum, Davos 1994 Annual Meeting, 27 January-1 February 1994.