An edition of Earth: The operators' manual
(2011)
Earth
the operators' manual
First edition
by Richard B. Alley
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Using one engaging story after another, and keeping the science light and the chapters short, world authority Richard B. Alley gives his readers three takeaways: 1) the fascinating history of human energy use over the centuries; 2) a doubt-destroying presentation of the evidence that the rapidly rising level of CO2 from fossil-fueled energy is bringing damaging global warming; and 3) an eye-opening survey of the alternative-energy options available to us right now.
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Earth: the operators' manual
2011, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., W.W. Norton
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0393081095 9780393081091
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Earth: The Operators' Manual
2011, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Table of Contents
Preface.
ix
PART I. THE BURNING QUESTION.
1. Prepare to Come About.
3
2. Burning to Learn.
12
3. Peak Trees and Peak Whale Oil.
21
PART II. LEARNING WHILE WE BURN.
4. Fossil Fuelish--Some Telling Facts.
43
5. Abraham Lincoln or Your Brother-in-Law?.
58
6. Red, White, and Blue-Green.
73
7. Canting the Kayak.
86
8. Why Accountants and Physicists Care about the Past.
94
9. The Moving Finger Writes.
106
10. And Having Writ, Moves On.
120
11. The Great Ice That Covers the Land.
133
12. Kindergarten Soccer and the Last Century of Climate.
141
13. But My Brother-in-Law Said . . .
155
14. The Future.
170
15. Valuing the Future.
188
PART III. THE ROAD TO TEN BILLION SMILING PEOPLE.
16. Toilets and the Smart Grid.
209
17. Sustainable Solutions on the Wind.
224
18. Sun and Water.
239
19. Down by the Sea, Where the Water Power Grows.
252
20. Power from the Land.
264
21. Put It Where the Sun Doesn't Shine: Nuclear Energy and Carbon Sequestration.
277
22. Conservation--Why Saving Energy Doesn't Mean Sitting Around in the Dark.
291
23. Game-Changers? Geoengineering, Fusion, and . . .
303
24. Ten Billion and Smiling.
316
Notes.
333
Acknowledgements.
445
Figure Credits and Notes.
447
Index.
455
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