Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.15 (865 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312643756 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Alternative review Ken Kardash As someone with no connection to or bias regarding the author, I wondered why my rating differs from the previous, uniformly glowing reviews. But then I noticed that in every case of the preceding five-star ratings, this is the only book to be reviewed by the contributor. Just saying.If you’re looking for a superficial overview of the historical context for alternativ. A great book on alternative energy RENEWABLE, THE WORLD CHANGING POWER OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, by Jeremy Shere is a fascinating book dealing with both the history and current efforts at developing various alternative energy sources. As soon as I got the book I sat down to read it and in one night I finished about 2/3 of it. I really enjoyed it. It was readable, clear and the best thing about, I thought, was t. This was a reasonably good basic summary of the main renewable energy options This was a reasonably good basic summary of the main renewable energy options, but left me with a mixed reaction to the coverage of historical approaches to these technologies -- coverage that at times was interesting and at times seemed like filler. The interjection of personal accounts of writing the book also felt like filler; Shere would have better used these pages to
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. While the debate over renewable energy remains mired in politics, Shere's approach provides a refreshingly optimistic outlook, grounded, but not suffocating, in technical detail, and confirming that, while the relatively low price of oil keeps advances on the margins, the work necessary to wean ourselves off fossil fuels is ongoing. A description of elegantly attired British colonialists sipping champagne and marveling excitedly at a solar-powered irrigation system in early 20th-century Egypt transitions to an account of researchers at Purdue University and MIT who are making unprecedented advances in solar energy efficiency using nanotechnology. A quick glimpse of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison riding together in a Model T through the Florida Everglades in search of land to grow ethanol-producing crops gives way to Shere, standing in the pouring rain, looking over a field of swaying Chinese silver grass—the b
Producing it in fossil fuel form is a dirty, expensivebut also hugely profitable enterprise, with enormous but largely hidden costs to the entire planet. In Renewable, Jeremy Shere's natural curiosity and serious research come together in an entertaining and informative guide to where renewable energy has been, where it is today, and where it's heading.. It might as well be magic. And when that time comes, humankind will have no choice but to turnor, more accurately, returnto other, cleaner, renewable energy sources. What will those sources be? How far have we come to realizing the technologies that will make these sources available?To find the answers, Shere began his journey with a tour of a traditional coal-fueled power plant in his home state of Indiana. Flick a switch and the lights go on. The cold, hard fact is that at some point we will have wrung the planet dry of easily