However, The book contains many useful facts and tables. It accounts for the energy cost of everything but rarely includes estimates of human labor costs.
Labor costs are much more important.
While its articles mention nuclear energy in many places and these references don't dismiss it, nuclear energy is ignored in the summary chapter. The recommendations for massive efforts to use less energy are therefore unsupported. Certain other problems of sustainability seem exaggerated - details later. If you want to be notified of the full review, send me email. The number of hits on this page since 1997 July 27.