Ebook: Before the lights go out: conquering the energy crisis before it conquers us
Author: Maggie Koerth-Baker
- Tags: Renewable energy sources, United States, Energy development, United States, Energy consumption, United States, Energy conservation, United States, Energy policy, United States, Energy conservation, Energy consumption, Energy development, Energy policy, Renewable energy sources, United States, Économies d'énergie, Consommation d'énergie, Développement énergétique, Énergie renouvelable, Politique énergétique, États-Unis
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- City: États-Unis., Hoboken, N.J., United States
- Language: English
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What you need to know now about America's energy future
"Hi, I'm the United States and I'm an oil-oholic." We have an energy problem. And everybody knows it, even if we can't all agree on what, specifically, the problem is. Rising costs, changing climate, peaking oil, foreign oil, public safety--if the fears are this complicated, then the solutions are bound to be even more confusing. Maggie Koerth-Baker--science editor at the award-winning blog BoingBoing.net--finally makes some sense out of the madness. Over the next 20 years, we'll be forced to cut 20 quadrillion BTU worth of fossil fuels from our energy budget, by wasting less and investing in alternatives. To make it work, we'll need to radically change the energy systems that have shaped our lives for 100 years. And the result will be neither business-as-usual, nor a hippie utopia. Koerth-Baker explains what we...
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