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Energy A Human History
In this book the author highlights the success and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal combustion to electricity and the harnessing of wind and sunlight. He reveals how we learned from such trials, mastered their transition and capitalized on their opportunities. He also confronts the challenge of global warming the largest energy transition in history finding a dangerous gap between renewables limited market penetration and the urgency of the threat.
