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Energy: A Human History Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

A “meticulously researched” (The New York Times Reserve Review) examination of energy transitions as time passes and an exploration of the current difficulties presented by global warming, a surging world population, and renewable energy—from Pulitzer Prize- and Country wide Book Award-winning writer Richard Rhodes.

Folks have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and countries have risen to globe power and declined, around energy challenges. Via an memorable cast of character types, about Energy: A Human History Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Rhodes clarifies how wood provided way to coal and coal produced room for essential oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. “Entertaining and interesting…a powerful look at the importance of technology” (NPR.org), Rhodes looks back on five decades of progress, through such influential statistics seeing that Queen Elizabeth I, King James I actually, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.

In his “magisterial history…a tour de force of popular science” (Kirkus Reviews, starred evaluate), Rhodes shows how breakthroughs in energy production occurred; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal-combustion towards the electrical motor. He looks at the existing energy landscape, with a focus on how blowing wind energy is competing for dominance with cast products of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming, and a inhabitants hurtling towards ten billion by 2100.

Human beings have confronted the issue of how to draw energy from natural material because the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each version brought further difficulties, and through such transformations, we arrived at where we are today. “A wonderfully written, often uplifting saga of ingenuity and progress…Energy brings facts, context, and clarity to a key, often contentious subject matter” (Booklist, starred review).