Power hungry the myths of "green" energy and the real fuels of the future
Another contrarian assessment of America's energy situation--and the gulf between the goals of the green movement and our vast need for power--by the author of Gusher of Lies. Armed with fully footnoted facts and revealing graphics, Bryce explains why most of the hype about renewable energy and...
| Main Author: | Bryce, Robert. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
PublicAffairs,
c2010.
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures, tables, and photos
- Author's note
- Introduction. The Cardinal Mine : a point of beginning
- pt. I. Our quest for power
- 1. Power tripping 101
- 2. Happy talk
- 3. Watt's the big deal? (Power tripping 102)
- Sidebar. Power equivalencies of various engines, motors, and appliances, in horsepower (and watts)
- 1. Wood to coal to oil : the slow pace of energy transitions
- 5. Coal hard facts
- Sidebar. From Pearl Street to EveryGenerator.com : a story of rising power density and falling costs
- 6. If oil didn't exist, we'd have to invent it
- 7. Twenty-seven Saudi Arabias per day
- pt. II. The myths of "green" energy
- 8. Myth : wind and solar are "green"
- Sidebar. All about power density : a comparison of various energy sources in horsepower (and watts)
- 9. Myth : wind power reduces CO₂ emissions
- 10. Myth : Denmark provides an energy model for the United States
- 11. Myth : T. Boone Pickens has a plan (or a clue)
- Sidebar. Bird Kills? What bird kills?
- 12. Myth : wind power reduces the need for natural gas
- 13. Myth : going "green" will reduce imports of strategic commodities and create "green" jobs
- 14. Myth : the United States lags in energy efficiency
- 15. Myth : the United States can cut CO₂ emissions by 80 percent by 2050, and carbon capture and sequestration can help achieve that goal
- 16. Myth : taxing carbon dioxide will work
- 17. Myth : oil is dirty
- 18. Myth : cellulosic ethanol can scale up and cut U.S. oil imports
- 19. Myth : electric cars are the next big thing
- 20. Myth : we can replace coal with wood
- pt. III. The power of N2N
- 21. Why N2N? And why now? (the megatrends favoring natural gas and nuclear)
- 22 A very short history of American natural gas and regulatory stupidity
- 23. It's a gas, gas, gas : welcome to the "gas factory"
- Sidebar. Elephant hunting : comparing the Barnett Shale and the East Texas Field
- 24. America's secret Goggle
- 25. Gas pains
- 26. Nuclear goes beyond green
- Sidebar. The real story on subsidies
- 27. A smashing idea for nuclear waste
- 28. Future nukes
- pt. IV. Moving forward
- 29. Rethinking "green" and a few other suggestions
- 30. Toward cheap, abundant energy
- Appendix A. Units and equivalents
- Appendix B. SI numerical designations
- Appendix C. America's convoluted energy regulatory structure
- Appendix D. Countries ranked by primary energy consumption, 2007
- Appendix E. U.S. and world primary energy consumption, by source, 1973 and 2008
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography -