Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard
Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions
over time-wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. People
have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and
nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy
challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the
story of humanity itself. Through an unforgettable cast of
characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains
how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now
turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes
looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential
figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin,
Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford. In Energy,
Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each
breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to
the steam engine, from internal-combustion to the electric motor.
He addresses how we learned from such challenges, mastered their
transitions, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also
looks at the current energy landscape, with a focus on how wind
energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and
natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming, and a
population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100. Human beings have
confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since
the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each
adaptation brought further challenges, and through such
transformations, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes's
singular style, Energy details how this knowledge of our history
can inform our way tomorrow.
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