Power hungry
Subtitle: the myths of "green" energy and the real fuels of the future
By: Robert Bryce.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781586487898
Subjects: Clean energy industries.; Power resources -- Forecasting.
Description: Another contrarian assessment of America's energy situation--and the gulf between the goals of the green movement and our vast need for power--by the author of Gusher of Lies. Armed with fully footnoted facts and revealing graphics, Bryce explains why most of the hype about renewable energy and "green" technology is just that--hype. He shows why renewable sources like wind and solar are not "green" and why they cannot provide the scale of energy that the world demands. He negates the notion that the US wastes huge amounts of energy. Indeed, the facts show that over the past three decades the US has been among the world's best at reducing its energy intensity, carbon intensity, and per-capita energy use. He goes on to skewer electric cars, T. Boone Pickens, and Denmark as an "energy smart" model, and explains what will really be needed to transform the global energy sector.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Power tripping 101; title: Happy talk; title: Watt's the big deal? (Power tripping 102); title: Wood to coal to oil : the slow pace of energy transitions; title: Coal hard facts; title: If oil didn't exist, we'd have to invent it; title: Twenty-seven Saudi Arabias per day; title: Myth : wind and solar are "green"; title: Myth : wind power reduces CO[subscript]2 emissions; title: Myth : Denmark provides an energy model for the United States; title: Myth : T. Boone Pickens has a plan (or a clue); title: Myth : wind power reduces the need for natural gas; title: Myth : going "green" will reduce imports of strategic commodities and create "green" jobs; title: Myth : the United States lags in energy efficiency; title: Myth : the United States can cut CO[subscript]2 emissions by 80 percent by 2050, and carbon capture and sequestration can help achieve that goal; title: Myth : taxing carbon dioxide will work; title: Myth : oil is dirty; title: Myth : cellulosic ethanol can scale up and cut U.S. oil imports; title: Myth : electric cars are the next big thing; title: Myth : we can replace coal with wood; title: Why N2N? and why now? (the megatrends favoring natural gas and nuclear); title: A very short history of American natural gas and regulatory stupidity; title: It's a gas, gas, gas : welcome to the "gas factory"; title: America's secret google; title: Gas pains; title: Nuclear goes beyond green; title: A smashing idea for nuclear waste; title: Future nukes; title: Rethinking "green" and a few other suggestions; title: Toward cheap, abundant energy.