Do you feel that this generation, and the generations to come face a future of only limited resources - and even less hope? Do you feel like the corporations and politicians are lying about how much fossil fuels remain unused - and how much they will cost? Do you feel like the system is about to implode?
Well, it's so much worse than that!
And so much better...
This book traces the history of energy, from 1491 through today. It is a remarkable story. A story filled with one-armed bigamists, Texas Rangers named Lone Wolf hired to arrest anyone producing cheap oil. 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 telephone).
Our 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 before?
Ten 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 hype regarding the "recent natural gas boom" is just that - hype. We may soon be seeing a 3-5 fold increase in prices, and shortages resulting in massive imports of natural gas. Some boom, eh? How the line between consumer and supplier of power will disappear - and the utility of the future may look very much like FaceBook. And ultimately, why energy will be free in the not too distant future.
Yes, everything is about to change. But rather than a future without hope - it will be a future without limits.