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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Cover image: Corbis (solar panels/Tetra Images)

The publishers would like to thank the following for their permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy Images pp.4 (Coal miners/Miguel Sayago), 24 (Petrol pumps/Sandy Young), 26 (Solar cooking/ Joerg Boethling), 33 (Itaipu hydroelectric dam/Mike Goldwater), 37 (Turbine/Frances Roberts); Andrew Engineering Ltd p.39 (Ground loop); Corbis pp.7 (Fuel tanker ships/Tim Wright), 11 (Rusting oil barrels/Ashley Cooper), 12 (Heavy traffic/David Butow/CORBIS SABA), 16 (Nuclear storage pond/Ocean), 22 (Sugar cane harvest/Tim Page), 27 (Solar-powered airplane/Denis Balibouse/Pool/epa), 28 (The PS20 solar tower/Ashley Cooper), 31 (Bahrain World Trade Centre/Hamad I Mohammed/X01444/Reuters), 41 (Human-powered Daedalus Aircraft/Charles O’Rear), 50 (1973 Opec Oil Crisis/H.Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock), 54 (Crowds in Shanghai/Imaginechina); Maybach pp.52 (Maybach DRS), 52 (Maybach DRS); Oxford University Press p.32 (Windmill); Peter Lyons p.32 (Greenbird wind powered car); PlayPump p.42 (PlayPump roundabout); Rex Features pp.14 (Freegans/John Alex Maguire), 18 (Damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station), 29 (Wind farm/Invicta Kent Media); Science Photo Library pp.0 (Seoul, South Korea, at night/NASA), 2 (Steam engine/ Jean-Loup Charmet), 5 (Oil rig/F. Ayer), 8 (Deepwater Horizon oil rig fire/USCG ), 9 (Coalfired station/Martin Bond), 15 (Landfill site/Martin Bond), 20 (Fusion reactor maintenance/ Maximilian Stock Ltd), 23 (Microalgae production/Matteis/Look at Sciences), 35 (Pelamis wave power/Ocean Power Delivery/Look At Sciences), 38 (Blue lagoon geothermal pool/ Martyn F. Chillmaid), 44 (Medical nanorobots/Hybrid Medical Animation), 46 (International Space Station construction/NASA), 52 (RepRap machine/James King-Holmes)

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