Energy: The Master Resource
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by Robert Bradley, Jr.
CEO and Founder, The Institute for Energy Research
Energy is uniquely essential to modern life and human progress; it is the master resource. This book describes how the ultimate resource, the human mind, has harnessed energy to meet the world’s increasing needs. Throughout history, human knowledge, creativity, and sweat have overcome technical, resource, and environmental challenges to convert energy into useful work. The authors persuasively argue that given the right incentives, inventive people will make energy’s future even brighter than the past.
Chapter 2: Using Energy (Part I, Part II)
Chapter 3: Efficiency – Technical and Economic
Chapter 4: Will We Run Out of Energy?
Chapter 5: Energy and the Environment
Chapter 6: Energy and Climate Change
Chapter 7: Energy for the Future
Appendix B: The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom
Appendix C: The Butterfly Effect
Appendix D: Oil Production from 1970 through 2003
Appendix E: Units (Conversions, Prefixes, and Heat Contents)
Appendix F: Complete Figure Sources
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:32 am
[...] ist dürfte jedem halbwegs intelligentem Menschen, der sich die Mühe gemacht hat etwas über die physikalisch-technischen Grundlagen der Energieversorgung zu erfahren und den Begriff der Opportunitätskosten verinnerlicht hat, schnell klar sein. Wie [...]