Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Energy development
ISBN :
Author : Meghan L. O'Sullivan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 150110795X
Windfall is the boldest profile of the world’s energy resources since Daniel Yergin’s The Quest, asserting that the new energy abundance—due to oil and gas resources once deemed too expensive—is transforming the geo-political order and is boosting American power. “Riveting and comprehensive...a smart, deeply researched primer on the subject.” —The New York Times Book Review As a new administration focuses on driving American energy production, O’Sullivan’s “refreshing and illuminating” (Foreign Policy) Windfall describes how new energy realities have profoundly affected the world of international relations and security. New technologies led to oversupplied oil markets and an emerging natural gas glut. This did more than drive down prices—it changed the structure of markets and altered the way many countries wield power and influence. America’s new energy prowess has global implications. It transforms politics in Russia, Europe, China, and the Middle East. O’Sullivan considers the landscape, offering insights and presenting consequences for each region’s domestic stability as energy abundance upends traditional partnerships, creating opportunities for cooperation. The advantages of this new abundance are greater than its downside for the US: it strengthens American hard and soft power. This is “a powerful argument for how America should capitalise on the ‘New Energy Abundance’” (The Financial Times) and an explanation of how new energy realities create a strategic environment to America’s advantage.
Author : Kenneth P. Green
Publisher : AEI Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 2011-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0844772054
Human beings depend on energy. From burning wood to harnessing the atom, we have relied on the consumption of natural resources. As civilization grows and the demand for energy increases, we must ask ourselves how toe best meet our energy needs while responsibly stewarding our resources. In Abundant Energy: The Fuel of Human Flourishing, Kenneth P. Green provides a brief history of our reliance on different sources of energy, explores the viability of both current and potential future sources, and offers a vision for the task of fueling human prosperity in the twenty-first century.
Author : Amory Lovins
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1603583726
Imagine fuel without fear. No climate change. No oil spills, no dead coalminers, no dirty air, no devastated lands, no lost wildlife. No energy poverty. No oil-fed wars, tyrannies, or terrorists. No leaking nuclear wastes or spreading nuclear weapons. Nothing to run out. Nothing to cut off. Nothing to worry about. Just energy abundance, benign and affordable, for all, forever. That richer, fairer, cooler, safer world is possible, practical, even profitable-because saving and replacing fossil fuels now works better and costs no more than buying and burning them. Reinventing Fire shows how business-motivated by profit, supported by civil society, sped by smart policy-can get the US completely off oil and coal by 2050, and later beyond natural gas as well. Authored by a world leader on energy and innovation, the book maps a robust path for integrating real, here-and-now, comprehensive energy solutions in four industries-transportation, buildings, electricity, and manufacturing-melding radically efficient energy use with reliable, secure, renewable energy supplies.Popular in tone and rooted in applied hope, Reinventing Fire shows how smart businesses are creating a potent, global, market-driven, and explosively growing movement to defossilize fuels. It points readers to trillions in savings over the next 40 years, and trillions more in new business opportunities.Whether you care most about national security, or jobs and competitive advantage, or climate and environment, this major contribution by world leaders in energy innovation offers startling innovations will support your values, inspire your support, and transform your sense of possibility.Pragmatic citizens today are more interested in outcomes than motives. Reinventing Fire answers this trans-ideological call. Whether you care most about national security, or jobs and competitive advantage, or climate and environment, its startling innovations will support your values, inspire your support, and transform your sense of possibility.
Author : Phyllis King
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 163265993X
“A break-through-it book . . . gives you easy-to-apply tools to awaken new possibilities and achieve fulfillment of your dreams.”—Sheri Meyers, PsyD, author of Chatting or Cheating The Energy of Abundance is a fresh, insightful, and often humorous view of life, spirituality, and the creative process. It explains in accessible language the energy game, and how each of us can play it to invite more happiness, love, and abundance into our lives. Succinct and practical, this book reveals each person’s unique and personal dance between spiritual truths and human desires. If you have ever wondered why the law of attraction hasn’t worked for you, The Energy of Abundance will help you figure it out. The Energy of Abundance clearly details how to bring a sense of calm to your chaos, a spirit of laughter (and even fun!) to your missteps, and an energy of renewal to yourself and your life by reconnecting to your innate power source. It addresses all major aspects of life—from birth to death, marriage to money—and clearly explains how to shift outcomes, using captivating stories, laugh-out-loud humor, and poignant insights. You will learn how to: Connect to your abundant core Master the art of receiving Attain the prosperity you desire Connect with soulmate relationships Release beliefs that do not serve you Connect to your life purpose . . . and why you need to “With great passion and care, [King] empowers us to heal old hurts and transform current challenges into fuel for our growth and expansion.”—Katherine Woodward Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Conscious Uncoupling
Author : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262536161
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. —Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity—for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.
Author : Peter Z. Grossman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107005175
This book presents an analytic history of American energy policy, examining policy failures and how the policy process itself leads to failure.
Author : Peter H. Diamandis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 145161683X
The authors document how four forces--exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion--are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. "Abundance" establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism.
Author : Christopher F. Jones
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674728890
The fossil fuel revolution is usually a tale of advances in energy production. Christopher Jones tells a tale of advances in energy access—canals, pipelines, wires delivering cheap, abundant power to cities at a distance from production sites. Between 1820 and 1930 these new transportation networks set the U.S. on a path to fossil fuel dependence.
