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Autor: Richard Rhodes
Czyta: Jacques Roy
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A “meticulously researched” (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world population, and renewable energy—from Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes.

People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. “Entertaining and informative…a powerful look at the importance of science” (NPR.org), Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.

In his “magisterial history…a tour de force of popular science” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Rhodes shows how breakthroughs in energy production occurred; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He looks at the current energy landscape, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100.

Human beings have confronted the problem of how to draw energy from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each adaptation brought further challenges, and through such transformations, we arrived at where we are today. “A beautifully written, often inspiring saga of ingenuity and progress…Energy brings facts, context, and clarity to a key, often contentious subject” (Booklist, starred review). Historia i kultura Inżynieria Świat

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well researched in terms of past technologies, although jumping to only loosely related topics too often. But the description of renewables versus nuclear ignored the recent trends of renewables rapidly developing and solutions to its intermittency emerging. The statement about the "heavily subsidized renewables" ignores the fact of renewables being often the cheapest source of energy, and the opposite happening for nuclear.

Good in describing past, bad in projecting future

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The subject is really interesting and the development of the story is good. A strict chronological story line would have been much better. The auther is really badly jumping back and forth in the timeline and it's hard to really keep it clear what happens when.

Interesting theme

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