The Reality of American Energy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reality of American Energy write by Ryan M. Yonk. This book was released on 2017-07-07. The Reality of American Energy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book dispels common myths about electricity and electricity policy and reveals how government policies manipulate energy markets, create hidden costs, and may inflict a net harm on the American people and the environment. Climate change, energy generation and use, and environmental degradation are among the most salient—and controversial—political issues today. Our country's energy future will be determined by the policymakers who enact laws that favor certain kinds of energy production while discouraging others as much as by the energy-production companies or the scientists working to reduce the environmental impact of all energy production. The Reality of American Energy: The Hidden Costs of Electricity provides rare insights into the politics and economics surrounding electricity in the United States. It identifies the economic, physical, and environmental implications of distorting energy markets to limit the use of fossil fuels while increasing renewable energy production and explains how these unseen effects of favoring renewable energy may be counterproductive to the economic interests of American citizens and to the protection of the environment. The first two chapters of the book introduce the subject of electricity policy in the United States and to enable readers to understand why policymakers do what they do. The remainder of the book examines the realities of the major electricity sources in the United States: coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydrodynamic, wind, biomass, solar, and geothermal. Each of these types of energy sources is analyzed in a dedicated chapter that explains how the electricity source works and identifies how politics and public policy shape the economic and environmental impacts associated with them.
Energy and the New Reality 1
Energy and the New Reality 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Energy and the New Reality 1 write by Leslie Daryl Danny Harvey. This book was released on 2010. Energy and the New Reality 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Straube, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, Canada --
Superpower
Superpower - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Superpower write by Russell Gold. This book was released on 2020-11-10. Superpower available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meet Michael Skelly, the man boldly harnessing wind energy that could power America’s future and break its fossil fuel dependence in this “essential, compelling look into the future of the nation’s power grid” (Bryan Burrough, author of The Big Rich). The United States is in the midst of an energy transition. We have fallen out of love with dirty fossil fuels and want to embrace renewable energy sources like wind and solar. A transition from a North American power grid that is powered mostly by fossil fuels to one that is predominantly clean is feasible, but it would require a massive building spree—wind turbines, solar panels, wires, and billions of dollars would be needed. Enter Michael Skelly, an infrastructure builder who began working on wind energy in 2000 when many considered the industry a joke. Eight years later, Skelly helped build the second largest wind power company in the United States—and sold it for $2 billion. Wind energy was no longer funny—it was well on its way to powering more than 6% of electricity in the United States. Award-winning journalist, Russel Gold tells Skelly’s story, which in many ways is the story of our nation’s evolving relationship with renewable energy. Gold illustrates how Skelly’s company, Clean Line Energy, conceived the idea for a new power grid that would allow sunlight where abundant to light up homes in the cloudy states thousands of miles away, and take wind from the Great Plains to keep air conditioners running in Atlanta. Thrilling, provocative, and important, Superpower is a fascinating look at America’s future.
The Quiet Reality of North American Energy Interdependenc
The Quiet Reality of North American Energy Interdependenc - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quiet Reality of North American Energy Interdependenc write by Joseph M. Dukert. This book was released on 2008. The Quiet Reality of North American Energy Interdependenc available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Windfall
Windfall - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Windfall write by Meghan L. O'Sullivan. This book was released on 2017-09-12. Windfall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A powerful argument for how America should capitalise on the 'New Energy Abundance'."--The Financial Times "Riveting and comprehensive...a smart, deeply researched primer on the subject."--The New York Times Book Review Windfall is the boldest profile of the world's energy resources since Daniel Yergin's The Quest. Harvard professor and former Washington policymaker Meghan L. O'Sullivan reveals how fears of energy scarcity have given way to the reality of energy abundance. This abundance is transforming the geo-political order and boosting American power. As a new administration focuses on raising American energy production, O'Sullivan's Windfall describes how new energy realities have profoundly affected the world of international relations and security. New technologies led to oversupplied oil markets and an emerging natural gas glut. This did more than drive down prices. It changed the structure of markets and altered the way many countries wield power and influence. America's new energy prowess has global implications. It transforms politics in Russia, Europe, China, and the Middle East. O'Sullivan explains the consequences for each region's domestic stability as energy abundance upends traditional partnerships, creates opportunities for cooperation. The advantages of this new abundance are greater than its downside for the US: it strengthens American hard and soft power. This powerful book describes how new energy realities creates a strategic environment to America's advantage.
