| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 283 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-272) and index. |
| Contents |
Energy and imagination -- The thinking man's diet -- Diet basics I : nothing but energy -- Diet basics II : all energy is not equal -- Talking thermodynamics, thinking in pictures : entropy -- The thermodynamics of forgetting : the energy in information -- The energy ride : the big picture of energy metabolism -- The age of atoms -- The age of molecules -- From life to fossil fuels -- Keep cool, man, real cool : human evolution and the origins of imagination -- The great energy rule : first came agriculture -- A tale of two cities : wood to burn -- Saving the forests : coal to burn -- And there was light : oil to burn -- Power unleashed : electricity -- First, the bad news -- Now for the good news -- The thinking man's energy diet. |
| Subject |
Renewable energy sources -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9780307237446 |
|
0307237443 |
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