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Power Hungry: The Myths of ""Green"" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future - Hardcover

Bryce, Robert

 
9781586487898: Power Hungry: The Myths of ""Green"" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1586487892 ISBN 13: 9781586487898
Verlag: PublicAffairs, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

The promise of “green jobs” and a “clean energy future” has roused the masses. But as Robert Bryce makes clear in this provocative book, that vision needs a major re-vision. We cannot—and will not—quit using carbon-based fuels at any time in the near future for a simple reason: they provide the horsepower that we crave. The hard reality is that oil, coal, and natural gas are here to stay.

Fueling our society requires more than sentiment and rhetoric; we need to make good decisions and smart investments based on facts. In Power Hungry, Bryce provides a supertanker-load of footnoted facts while shepherding readers through basic physics and math. And with the help of a panoply of vivid graphics and tables, he crushes a phalanx of energy myths, showing why renewables are not green, carbon capture and sequestration won't work, and even—surprise!—that the U.S. is leading the world in energy efficiency. He also charts the amazing growth of the fuels of the future: natural gas and nuclear.

Power Hungry delivers a clear-eyed view of what America has “in the tank,” and what's needed to transform the gargantuan global energy sector.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Bryce has been producing industrial-strength journalism for two decades. His articles on energy and other subjects have appeared in dozens of publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Counterpunch and Atlantic Monthly to Oklahoma Stripper. He is the author most recently of Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence.” Bryce is also the managing editor of Energy Tribune. He lives in Austin.

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Verlag
PublicAffairs
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1586487892
ISBN 13 
9781586487898
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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