general strike in
la apertura in
nationalization in
oil of
Pérez reforms in
as petro-state
population increase in
poverty in
unconventional oil in
U.S. relations with
Venter, Craig
venture capital, venture-capital investing
in cleantech
Doriot and
photovoltaics and
start of energy focus of
Western growth of
Venus
Vermont
vertically integrated companies
Vestas
Vienna
Vietnam
Villach meeting (1985)
Vilsack, Tom
Vogtle nuclear power plant
Volkswagen
Volvo
Vostok
Voyages dan les Alpes (Sassure)
Wagoner, Rick
Wall Street
Walton, John T.
Walton, Sam
Wang, Chuanfu
Wang Jinxi (Iron Man)
Washington, George
Washington Energy Conference (1974)
water
climate change and
fraccing and
for nuclear reactors
produced
see also hydropower
watermills
Watt, James
Waxman, Henry
weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
Iraq and
see also nuclear weapons
weather
climate vs.
extreme
satellites and
strategic importance of
Weather Bureau, U.S.
welfare states
Wellinghoff, Jon
Wells, Richard
Wen Jibao
West Africa
Western Union
Westinghouse
Westinghouse, George
West Siberia:
natural gas in
oil in
West Texas Intermediate (WTI)
West Virginia
Wetherald, Richard
wheat, futures contracts for
White House
Cabinet Room at
solar energy at
White House effect
Whitman, Christine Todd
Wicker, William
Williams, H. L.
Willrich, Mason
Wilson, Pete
Wilson, Woodrow
wind energy
challenge of intermittency and
in China
cost of
electrification of
in Germany
global resources of
in Great Britain
in historical perspective
local opposition to
as mainstream technology
modern industry of
obstacles to
offshore frontier of
PURPA and
rebirth of
Rickover’s views on
shale gas and
size of
slump in
in Spain
U.S.
windfall profits tax bill, Section 29 of
wind farms
windmills
winds
deepwater production and
in Sahara
wind turbines
Wirth, Tim
Wolfowitz, Paul
women
Muslim
wood
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woodwell, George
World Bank
World Conference on a Changing Atmosphere (1988)
World Economic Forum
World Meteorological Organization
World Trade Center
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World War I,
Anglo-German naval race and
end of
gasoline shortage in
innovations in
LNG and
nation and empire change and
World War II,
atomic bomb in
axis in
denazification after
Doriot in
Eisenhower in
end of
jungle rot in
LNG and
natural gas and
Normandy invasion in
oil and
Pearl Harbor in
Revelle in
Rickover in
submarines in
weather and
Xcel Energy
Yanukovych, Viktor
Yeltsin, Boris
Tengiz oil field and
Yemen
Yom Kippur War, see October War
Yucca Mountains
Yudan! (Ikeguchi)
Yukos
Yuschenko, Viktor
Zawahiri, Ayman al-
Zetsche, Dieter
ZEVs (zero-emissions vehicles)
Zhou En Lai
Zhou Jiping
Zhou Qingzu
Ziegler, Hans
Zoellick, Robert
Zond
Zuckerman Lecture
Zuma, Jacob
Zwentendorf
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