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the myths of "green" energy and the real fuels of the future

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"Power hungry" was published by PublicAffairs in 2010 - New York, NY, it has 394 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Power hungry
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 394
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs
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  • Publish Location: New York, NY

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"Power hungry" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Power tripping 101
  • 2- Happy talk
  • 3- Watt's the big deal? (Power tripping 102)
  • 4- Wood to coal to oil : the slow pace of energy transitions
  • 5- Coal hard facts
  • 6- If oil didn't exist, we'd have to invent it
  • 7- Twenty-seven Saudi Arabias per day
  • 8- Myth : wind and solar are "green"
  • 9- Myth : wind power reduces CO[subscript]2 emissions
  • 10- Myth : Denmark provides an energy model for the United States
  • 11- Myth : T. Boone Pickens has a plan (or a clue)
  • 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 CO[subscript]2 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
  • 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"
  • 24- America's secret google
  • 25- Gas pains
  • 26- Nuclear goes beyond green
  • 27- A smashing idea for nuclear waste
  • 28- Future nukes
  • 29- Rethinking "green" and a few other suggestions
  • 30- Toward cheap, abundant energy.

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