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Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
written by Fred Krupp, Miriam Horn
Studio : W. W. Norton
by W. W. Norton
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Released : 2008-03-12
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780393066906
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 36 reviews)
List Price : $24.95
Our Price : $13.99
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Product Description |
How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe.
The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a stirring and hopeful call to arms: We can solve global warming. And in doing so we will build the new industries, jobs, and fortunes of the twenty-first century.
In these pages the reader will encounter the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it. Among them: a frontier impresario who keeps his ice hotel frozen all summer long with the energy of hot springs; a utility engineer who feeds smokestack gases from coal-fired plants to voracious algae, then turns them into fuel; and a tribe of Native Americans, for two thousand years fishermen in the roughest Pacific waters, who are now harvesting the fierce power of the waves themselves.
These entrepreneurs are poised to remake the world's biggest business and save the planet—if America's political leaders give them a fair chance to compete. |
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Insightful and Informative, Green Outlook Never So Bright |
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Earth: The Sequel is an absolute must for anyone interested or concerned about the growing effects of global warming. This book brings to light the current technological advancements in alternative energy, and how very possible it is for us to cut off our dependence on fossil fuels. If the global energy industries were to introduce these new alternative energy solutions into the current grid, we could easily become a much greener planet: Earth. Then there would be no need for a sequel. |
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Good technical book on alternative energy. |
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From what I have read so far, the book enumerates the state of researched and applied sources of energy that will not (mostly) increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. I would recommend this book to those interested in our options for energy for the future. |
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An incredible wealth of knowledge! Well worth its price for anyone interrested in looking to the future. |
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This is a very interesting book about all the possible non-fossil fuels that scientists around the world are working on currently. Even for a very non-science oriented person I found it fascinating and hopeful. It would seem after reading this book that we should be able to fuel our homes and cars within a few years with solar or wind. |
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Climate Change Alleviation |
The authors provide some interesting perspectives
on how to alleviate climate change. They see
new industries, new jobs, investments and virtual
fortunes being made to alleviate climate change.
The authors conclude that a square of land
100 miles has the capability to produce enough
energy to power the USA. I guess that you could
just about do that in the Mojave Desert !
The book states that a 3 kilowatt solar panel
system could cost $21T dollars; however, the
government does provide energy grants to facilitate
this process.
The theory of solar energy is described by negative
flows through a conduction band reuniting with holes
to produce an electric current. Crystalline silicon
absorbs light more slowly.
In the aggregate, the authors believe that we should
do the following:
o reconsider burning cleaner coal due to the
considerable supply
o geothermal energy can create power from the earth
itself
o solar energy has a virtual infinite capacity to
store heat i.e. desert and hot environments
o bio-fuels fermentation
o oceanic energy
o the sterling engine powered by thermal heat
The book presents some companies which could profit
from the current trend toward alternative energy
production:
o Kyocera Group
o Sun Tech
o Solar Tech
The authors present some excellent ideas on how to
deal with current energy exigencies which are
slated to occur early in this century. |
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