The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial SocietiesNew Society Publishers, 2005 M08 1 - 288 páginas The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We are entering a new era, as different from the industrial era as the latter was from medieval times. In The Party's Over , Richard Heinberg places this momentous transition in historical context, showing how industrialism arose from the harnessing of fossil fuels, how competition to control access to oil shaped the geopolitics of the 20th century, and how contention for dwindling energy resources in the 21st century will lead to resource wars in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South America. He describes the likely impacts of oil depletion, and all of the energy alternatives. Predicting chaos unless the U.S. -- the world's foremost oil consumer -- is willing to join with other countries to implement a global program of resource conservation and sharing, he also recommends a "managed collapse" that might make way for a slower-paced, low-energy, sustainable society in the future. More readable than other accounts of this issue, with fuller discussion of the context, social implications, and recommendations for personal, community, national, and global action, Heinberg's updated book is a riveting wake-up call for humankind as the oil era winds down, and a critical tool for understanding and influencing current U.S. foreign policy. Listen to an interview with Richard Heinberg from WRPI.
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... Critics: The Cornucopian Argument Who Is Right? Why Does It Matter? CHAPTER 4: NON-PETROLEUM ENERGY SOURCES: CAN THE PARTY CONTINUE? Natural Gas Coal Nuclear Power Wind Solar Power Hydrogen Hydroelectricity Geothermal Power.
Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg. Coal Nuclear Power Wind Solar Power Hydrogen Hydroelectricity Geothermal Power Tides and Waves Biomass, Biodiesel, and Ethanol Fusion, Cold Fusion, and Free-Energy Devices ...
... nuclear, mechanical, chemical, thermal, electromagnetic, and gravitational — which can be converted from one to another. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that whenever energy is converted from one form to another, at least some ...
... nuclear power combined. The relative vastness of this solar-energy influx as compared with society's energy needs might suggest that humans will never face a true energy shortage. But only some of this solar energy is actually available ...
... nuclear reactor, the hydroelectric turbine, the photovoltaic panel, the wind turbine, and all electrical devices. These tools and tool systems are the foundation of modern industrial societies —in fact, they define them. This scheme of ...
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LIGHTS OUT APPROACHING THE HISTORIC INTERVALS | |
NONPETROLEUM ENERGY SOURCES | |
Hydrogen | |
A BANQUET OF CONSEQUENCES | |
MANAGING THE COLLAPSE | |
AFTERWORD TO THE REVISED EDITION | |
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The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |