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The must-read summary of Robert Bryce's book: “Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future”.
This complete summary of "Power Hungry" by Robert Bryce, a prominent American journalist, presents his argument that green energy in the US is a myth, as renewables are not in fact particularly green, and carbon capture and sequestration is unlikely to ever work. He states that the only feasible and workable energy strategy for the US would have to be to built on harnessing natural gas and nuclear power to generate electricity, which he believes are the real fuels of the future.
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To learn more, read "Power Hungry" and discover how the renewable energy sector may not be as promising as it seems, and what some realistic alternatives may be.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017
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Book Presentation: Power Hungry by Robert Bryce
Book Abstract
The general deluge of feel-good chatter about moving America away from the use of oil to alternative renewable energy sources which are cleaner, greener and hopefully cheaper – allowing America to become “energy independent” in the process – masks the hard facts and physics involved. All of the green technologies currently being promoted don’t make sense when you look at the four imperatives of viable energy sources: power density, energy density, cost and scale.
The only feasible and workable energy strategy for the United States has to be built on harnessing natural gas and nuclear power to generate electricity as these are the real fuels of the future. Only natural gas and nuclear have high power density, are relatively low cost and can provide the enormous amounts of energy America will require in the future. Furthermore, natural gas and nuclear produce lower carbon dioxide emissions than oil and coal meaning they approach the zero air pollution threshold. A viable national energy strategy is for the United States to harness its gargantuan reserves of natural gas to produce energy in the near term while transitioning to nuclear power over the long term.
In spite of all the gloom and doom thrown up by environmentalists, there is much reason for optimism. If we’re smart, a national energy policy of N2N – natural gas to nuclear – can provide us with energy in abundance. If other nations follow our lead in this area, the world will have a no regrets energy policy which will address decarbonization and many other environmental challenges.
About the Author
Robert Bryce has been a journalist for more than two decades and has written articles for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Austin Chronicle, the Guardian and many other publications. He served previously as managing editor of Energy Tribune, an online publication focusing on key issues in the energy sector. Mr. Bryce is the author of four books including Pipe Dreams and Gusher. He has been writing about the energy business since 1989.
Summary of Power Hungry (Robert Bryce)
Our Quest for Power
Nobody cares about energy per se. What we really want is power. Energy is the ability to do something but power is the rate at which it gets done. Human history has been shaped by the pursuit of increasing amounts of power through the ages. Today, 90 percent of the power we use comes from the burning of oil, natural gas and coal because they are reliable and affordable. Renewable energy sounds great in theory but the simple fact is producing electricity from the sun or the wind are always going to be incurably intermittent, and the economics of storing energy for future use are unattractive. The best renewables can ever hope for is to be bit players in America’s and the world’s overall energy mix.
