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Beyond the Age of Oil - The Myths, Realities, and Future of Fossil Fuels and Their Alternatives (Hardcover)
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Beyond the Age of Oil - The Myths, Realities, and Future of Fossil Fuels and Their Alternatives (Hardcover)
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This book offers a revealing picture of the myths and realities of
the energy world by one of our most renowned energy experts and
managers. At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the
human race finds itself caught in an "energy trap." Carbon-rich
fossil fuels—coal, petroleum and natural gas—are firmly
entrenched as the dominant sources of our energy and power. Their
highly concentrated forms, versatility of use, ease of transport
and storage, ready availability, and comparatively low costs
combine to give fossil fuels an unassailable competitive advantage
over all alternative sources of energy. This economic reality means
that fossil fuels will inevitably continue to be the backbone of
the global economy for the next quarter of a century, even while
the adverse climate and environmental effects of our dependence on
fossil fuels hurtle toward global crisis levels. To avert
unacceptable environmental consequences, the world must
deliberately and incrementally supplant fossil fuels with
alternative energy sources, on a schedule that will have them
overtake fossil fuels in the world's energy budget by 2035. To
achieve this urgent goal without massive economic dislocation and
reduction in standards of living, global investment in fossil fuel
efficiency will be just as important as the development and massive
deployment of alternative energy technologies and delivery systems.
In this eagerly awaited sequel to his prize-winning bestseller, The
Age of Oil, Leonardo Maugeri, the strategy director of one of the
world's biggest energy companies, puts forward a hard-headed,
concrete plan in simple everyday language for how to shift the
world economy's primary energy dependence from fossil fuels to
renewable energies by 2035. Assuming no specialized knowledge, the
author walks the reader chapter by chapter through each of the
fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) and each of the
alternative energy sources (nuclear, hydroelectric, biofuel, wind,
solar, geothermal, and hydrogen). Drawing on the unparalleled data
and analysis resources at his command, Maugeri assesses the
problems and advantages of each energy source in turn in order to
constrain the optimal mix of energy sources that the world should
be aiming for in 2035. Critically, he lays out the arduous path for
getting from here to there. Maugeri shows that the next 25 years
will be a rocky marriage between the old and the new energy
paradigms, during which we must dramatically improve the efficiency
of our continuing use of fossil fuels, while driving ahead on all
fronts to an energy future based on a suite of sustainable energy
sources.
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