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bhat, Thai
“Big Carbon” industry
Bijur, Peter
bin Laden, Osama
biodiesel
biofuels
from algae
birth of gasohol and
daunting logistics of
flex-fuel vehicles and
food vs.
future development of
new biological perspective for
vision of
see also ethanol
biological weapons
biomass
energy density of
heating of
biotechnology
bitumen
Black Sea
Blair, Dennis
Blair, Tony
Blancard, Jean
Blavatnik, Len
Blue Stream
BMW
Bodman, Samuel
Boeing
Boesi, Tito
Bogdanov, Vladimir
Bohr, Niels
Bolin, Bert
Bolívar, Simón
Bolshevik Revolution (1917)
Bonga
Bono, Sonny
Borderless World, The
Borjomi mineral water
Borzhomi springs
Bosporus Strait
Boston Harbor
Bouazizi, Mohammed
“boutique gasoline” regulation
Bowlin, Michael
BP
Amoco deal of
ARCO and
biofuels and
BTC pipeline and
Deepwater Horizon and
green credentials and
LNG and
Mobil merger attempt of
in Russia
BP Amoco, ARCO purchased by
BP Solar
Brandeis, Louis
Brandt, Willy
Bransby, David
Brazil
as BRIC
climate change and
economy of
electricity in
ethanol of
hydropower in
oil of
Bremer, L. Paul, III
Brent
Breyer, Stephen
BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China)
British Antarctic Survey
British Association for the Advancement of Science
British Columbia
British Gas Council
broadband revolution
Broussard, Martha Lou
Brown, Gordon
Brown, Jerry
Brown, Scott
Browne, John
Browner, Carol
Brunei
Brush, Charles
Bryson, John
Buenos Aires
Buffalo Forge Company
Buffett, Warren
Buick
buildings
conservation and
efficiency by design and
energy efficiency and
gadgiwatts and
mind-set and
patent number 808897 and
bunkering
Bunsen, Robert
Bureau of Land Management, U.S.
Bureau of Smoke Control, Los Angeles
Bush, George H. W.
climate change and
renewable energy and
Bush, George W.
“axis of evil” and
biofuels and
on China
fuel efficiency and
Iraq War and
preemption policy and
renewables and
in Saudi Arabia
Bush, Laura
Bushehr nuclear reactor
butanol
Butter and Cheese Exchange
BYD
Byrd-Hagel Resolution
Cabazon, Calif.
Cabot, Godfrey
Cabot, Thomas
Cabot Corporation
CAD/CAM (computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing) technology
Cairo
Caldera, Rafael
Calder Hall
Calderón, Felipe
California
cars in
economy and economic growth in
election of 1998 in
electricity in
electricity restructuring in
energy efficiency in
hydropower in
LNG in
nuclear power in
offshore production in
renewables in
tax credits in
temperature inversion in
California, University of:
at Berkeley
at San Diego
California Air Resources Board (CARB)
California Energy Commission
California Institute of Technology
Callahan, Kateri
Callendar, Guy Stewart
Callendar Effect
CalPERS (California State retirement fund)
Caltex joint venture
Cameron, David
Canada
acid rain in
nuclear power in
oil of
oil sands of
shale gas in
tight oil of
Cancún meeting (2010)
CANDU reactor
CAOP, see Central Asian Oil Pipeline
cap-and-trade system
Cape Wind
capital-intensive industry
capitalism
Capitol, U.S.
Caracas
Caraghiaur, George
carbon
cap-and-trade system for
capturing of
climate change and
coal and
energy efficiency and
natural gas and
wind energy and
carbon dioxide
biofuels and
Callendar Effect and
cars and
climate change and
energy efficiency and
reduction of
rise of
of Venus
“Carbon Dioxide Exchange Between Atmosphere
and Ocean and the Question of an Increase in
Atmospheric CO2 During the Past Decades” (Revelle
and Suess)
carbon and capture sequestration (storage) (CCS)
carbon tax
Carlson, David
Carnot, Sadi
Carrier, Willis
Carrier Air Conditioning Company
Carroll, Philip
Carter, Jimmy
natural gas and
Rickover and
solar energy and
Three Mile Island and
Carter, Roslynn
Carter Doctrine
Caspian Derby
Azerbaijan as ground zero for
company expectations in
pipelines and
players in
risks in
Tale of Three Seas conference and
Caspian oil
in Azerbaijan
deal of the century and
in Kazakhstan
pipelines for
in Turkmenistan
Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC)
Caspian Sea
description of
Tengiz oil and
Caspian Shah Deniz field
Castro, Cipriano
Castro, Fidel
Caucasus
see also Caspian Derby; specific places
CCS, see carbon and capture sequestration (storage)
cell phones
Arab Awakening and
cellulose
cellulosic ethanol
Central Asia
Khorastan and
Turkmenistan resources and
Central Asian Oil Pipeline (CAOP)
Central Command, U.S.
Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB)
Central Europe
Central Vermont Public Service
Ceres
Ceyhan
see also Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline
Chalabi, Ahmed
Chamorro, Violeta
Chandler, Raymond
Charney, Jule
Charney Committee
Chávez, Hugo
arrest of
China card of
in coup
in election of 1998
foreign travels of
in military academy
nationalization announced by
Chechnya
chemical weapons
Cheney, Dick
Chernobyl nuclear accident
Chernomyrdin, Viktor
Chevron
in battle for Unocal
Texaco’s merger with
Chevy Volt
Chicago, Ill.
electricity in
natural gas for
Chicago Climate Exchange
Chicago Edison
Chicago Exchange PLC,
Chicago World’s Fair (1893)
China
automobiles in
Bamboo Curtain in
as BRIC
build-out of
Caspian Derby and
climate change and
coal use in
Cultural Revolution in
defense spending of
demand shock and
economy and economic growth of
electricity in
energy and foreign policy issues of
energy efficiency in
energy security and
extreme weather in
Great Game and
Great Leap Forward in
growth and anxiety and
Guangdong Province in
hydropower in
Inner Mongolia in
Iran’s relations with
Japan’s dispute with
job creation in
Kazakhstan oil and
natural gas of
nuclear energy of
nuclear weapons of
oil demand in
oil of
opening of
overlap of interests in
petro-rivalry and
pipelines in
price of success in
renewables in
as responsible stakeholder
Revolution in
Russia’s relations with
sea-lane concerns of
shale gas production in
Soviet relations with
Special Economic Zones in
total energy consumption of
urbanization in
U.S. compared with
U.S. relations with
as workshop of the world
China Club
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)
China Syndrome, The
Chirac, Jacques
chlorofluorocarbons (CFC)
choke points
Christensen, Clay
Christian Democrats, German
Christopher, Warren
Chrysler
Chu, Steven
Chubu Electric
Churchill, Winston
Churilov, Lev
CIA
CIGS (Copper, Indium, Gallium di-Selinide)
Clay, Lucius
Clean Air Act (1970)
Clean Air Act Amendments (1990)
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
cleantech
Cleveland, Ohio
climate
human influence on
modeling of
weather vs.
climate activism, rise of
climate change
Agassiz and
biofuels and
Callendar and
Cancún meeting and
carbon and
cars and
China and
company green credentials and
Congress and
Copenhagen conference and
Earth Summit and
Gleneagles summit and
global cooling and
Great Britain and
hot box and
hot summer of 1988 and the White House effect and
ice ages and
International Geophysical Year and
IPCC and
Keeling and his curve and
Kyoto Protocol and
large-scale geophysical experiment and
markets and, see market-based solutions
Montreal Protocol and
as new energy question
Nobel Prize and
ozone hole and
renewables and
Revelle and
S. Arrhenius and
Sassure and
science meets policy and
shale gas and
as strategic threat
Sundsvall meeting and
Thatcher and
twenty-one questions and
Tyndall and
Venus and
Woods Hole meeting and
see also global warming
Climate Change Science Program
“climategate,”
Climate Science Technology Program
Clinton, Bill
climate change and
in election of 1992
Iran policy and
renewables and
Clinton, Hillary
Club of Rome
Club of Rome Report (1972)
CNN effect
CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Corporation)
CNPC, see China National Petroleum Corporation
coal
carbon and
disappearance of
for electricity
as fuel choice
high vs. low sulfur
Kelvin’s fears about
lignate
Mitchell’s views on
oil made from
pollution from
reduction in use of
Royal Navy’s move to oil from
synfuels from
see also specific countries
coal gas (town gas)
Coalition Provisional Authority
Coase, Ronald
Cocconi, Al
Coda
Cold War
end of
Cole, USS
Colorado
Columbus, Christopher
combined-cycle gas turbines
“Coming Ice Age, The” (Friedan)
command-and-control regulation
commodity index funds
Commonwealth Edison
communications
electricity and
international
Communist Party, Chinese
computers
cyberattack and
Comsat
concentrated solar power
Congress, U.S.
anti-Chinese sentiment and
climate change and
Conoco’s Iran deal and
electric car and
energy spending and
natural gas and
oil executives and
renewables and
Rickover and
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Conoco
ConocoPhillips
Conolly, Arthur
conservation
buildings and
see also efficiency, energy
conservation gap
consumption, consumers
Chinese
of electricity
of ethanol
global energy demand and
of natural gas
oil price collapse and
reduction of
security and
U.S. gas
U.S. oil
containment:
of Iran
of Iraq
of Soviet Union
contracts, interruptible
Copenhagen Agreement
Copenhagen conference (COP 15; Dec. 2009)
copper
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Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency Standards (CAFE)
corruption
in Nigeria
petro-states and
Council of Economic Advisers
Council of Europe
Council on Environmental Quality, U.S.
Crane, David
crime
Cromwell, Oliver
Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cugnot, Nicolas Joseph
Cultural Revolution, Chinese
currency:
in Asian financial crisis
demand shock and
see also specific currencies
Curzon, Lord
Cushing, Okla.
cyberattack
Cyber Command
cybercriminals
Daimler
Daimler, Gottlieb
Daimler-Benz
Dales, John
Damon Bankston
dams
Daqing
Daschle, Tom
Daura Refinery
Davis, David
Davis, Gray
Davos, World Economic Forum in (2006)
debt
Decree
Deepwater Horizon
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Defense Department, U.S. (DOD)
cyberattack and
DARPA in
9/11 and
Rumsfeld’s views on
defense spending
deforestation
de Gaulle, Charles
DeGolyer, Everette Lee
Dehlsen, James
Delay, Tom
demand shock
automobiles and
belief system and
breakpoint and
BRICs and
China and
engineering and
financialization and
Jeddah vs. Bonga and
paper barrel and
price surge and
sovereign wealth funds and
tight market and
demand side management programs
democracy
Iraqi
Democrats
Deng Xiaoping
Denmark
nuclear power in
wind energy and
deregulation
deregulation (restructuring), electricity
economic iron curtain and
markets and
derivatives
Derr, Kenneth
Desertec
Desert Storm
Desmarest, Thierry
Deterding, Henri
deterrence
Detroit, Mich.
auto industry in
Detroit Edison Company
Detroit Electrics
Deuss, John
Deutsch, John
developing world
climate change and
electricity in
gas price subsidies in
globalization and
resource nationalism in
size of oil use in
wind energy in
see also specific places
Devon Energy
Diablo Canyon nuclear facility
digital oil field
digital revolution
diversification
energy security and
in Japan
natural gas and
petro-states and
in Russia
Dobbins, James
Dobriansky, Paula
“Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon Its Energy Content?” (Einstein)
dollar, U.S., demand shock and
Doriot, Georges
Dow Chemical
Drake, Edwin
Draper, William, III
Dreamliner
drop-ins (fungible molecules; green molecules)