WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE

ISBN: 9780979161117 Géneros: TBX Sinópsis: Ask yourselfDo you feel that this generation and the generations to come face a future of only limited resources – and even less hopeIs this the last generation that will have access to millions of years of stored energy in the form of fossil fuelsDo you feel like the corporations and politicians are lying about how much fossil fuels remain unused – and how much they will costDo you feel like the system is about to implodeWell it’s sooo much worse than thatAnd sooo much better…This book traces the history of energy from 1491 through today  It is a remarkable story  A story filled with onearmed bigamists Texas Rangers named Lone Wolf hired by the governor to arrest anyone producing oil cheaper than big oil would like  Clandestine meetings in Scottish castles  Footraces to patent offices to steal inventions allowed to lapse by illiterate Italian immigrants and as a result Bell is remembered as the inventor of the telephoneNearly everything you ever learned about the history of energy is wrong  For example – Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb  The Wright Brothers were not the first to fly  Henry Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line… in fact he arrived fairly late to the entire partyAnd then there are the formal conspiracy theories – Was Prohibition an attempt by Standard Oil to eliminate competition from ethanol  Did GM conspire to dismantle the light rail system across the US the US Supreme Court thought soOur energy history leads to our energy present  A world that experienced peak coal 1998 peak natural gas 2003 and peak oil 2007  Will we repeat the same mistakes we have repeated many times beforeNow that we know where we have been and where we are – where are we goingTen predictions for the coming two decades as the BioMass Hits the Wind Turbine For example Why the electric car will come to dominate transportation within 15 years Why all the media