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Role of the renewables

Nature volume 304, pages 757–758 (1983)Cite this article

Alternative Energy Sources: For the Centralised Generation of Electricity.

By R.H. Taylor. Adam Hilger, Bristol: 1983. Pp. 310. £18, $36 Renewable Energy: The Power to Choose. By Daniel Deudney and Christopher Flavin. W. W. Norton: 1983. Pp.431. $18.45 £14.50.

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  1. Director of Management Studies at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. From 1977 to 1981 he was Chairman of the UK national committees on wind, wave and solar energies.

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