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...
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures, tables, and photos
- Author's note
- Introduction : the cardinal mine : a point of beginning
- Power tripping 101
- Happy talk
- Watt's the big deal? (Power tripping 102)
- Wood to coal to oil : the slow pace of energy transitions
- Coal hard facts
- If oil didn't exist, we'd have to invent it
- Twenty-seven Saudi Arabias per day
- Myth : wind and solar are "green"
- Myth : wind power reduces CO[subscript]2 emissions
- Myth : Denmark provides an energy model for the United States
- Myth : T. Boone Pickens has a plan (or a clue)
- Myth : wind power reduces the need for natural gas
- Myth : going "green" will reduce imports of strategic commodities and create "green" jobs
- Myth : the United States lags in energy efficiency
- 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
- Myth : taxing carbon dioxide will work
- Myth : oil is dirty
- Myth : cellulosic ethanol can scale up and cut U.S. oil imports
- Myth : electric cars are the next big thing
- Myth : we can replace coal with wood
- Why N2N? and why now? (the megatrends favoring natural gas and nuclear)
- A very short history of American natural gas and regulatory stupidity
- It's a gas, gas, gas : welcome to the "gas factory"
- America's secret google
- Gas pains
- Nuclear goes beyond green
- A smashing idea for nuclear waste
- Future nukes
- Rethinking "green" and a few other suggestions
- 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
- Index.