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The Reality of American Energy - The Hidden Costs of Electricity Policy (Hardcover)
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The Reality of American Energy - The Hidden Costs of Electricity Policy (Hardcover)
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This book dispels common myths about electricity and electricity
policy and reveals how government policies manipulate energy
markets, create hidden costs, and may inflict a net harm on the
American people and the environment. Climate change, energy
generation and use, and environmental degradation are among the
most salient—and controversial—political issues today. Our
country's energy future will be determined by the policymakers who
enact laws that favor certain kinds of energy production while
discouraging others as much as by the energy-production companies
or the scientists working to reduce the environmental impact of all
energy production. The Reality of American Energy: The Hidden Costs
of Electricity provides rare insights into the politics and
economics surrounding electricity in the United States. It
identifies the economic, physical, and environmental implications
of distorting energy markets to limit the use of fossil fuels while
increasing renewable energy production and explains how these
unseen effects of favoring renewable energy may be
counterproductive to the economic interests of American citizens
and to the protection of the environment. The first two chapters of
the book introduce the subject of electricity policy in the United
States and to enable readers to understand why policymakers do what
they do. The remainder of the book examines the realities of the
major electricity sources in the United States: coal, natural gas,
nuclear, hydrodynamic, wind, biomass, solar, and geothermal. Each
of these types of energy sources is analyzed in a dedicated chapter
that explains how the electricity source works and identifies how
politics and public policy shape the economic and environmental
impacts associated with them.
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