Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming | 
 enlarge | Authors: Fred Krupp, Miriam Horn
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 928
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0393066908
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.042
EAN: 9780393066906
ASIN: 0393066908
Publication Date: March 12, 2008
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Product Description
How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe.
The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a stirring and hopeful call to arms: We can solve global warming. And in doing so we will build the new industries, jobs, and fortunes of the twenty-first century.
In these pages the reader will encounter the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it. Among them: a frontier impresario who keeps his ice hotel frozen all summer long with the energy of hot springs; a utility engineer who feeds smokestack gases from coal-fired plants to voracious algae, then turns them into fuel; and a tribe of Native Americans, for two thousand years fishermen in the roughest Pacific waters, who are now harvesting the fierce power of the waves themselves.
These entrepreneurs are poised to remake the world's biggest business and save the planet—if America's political leaders give them a fair chance to compete.
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 Good technical book on alternative energy. May 11, 2008
From what I have read so far, the book enumerates the state of researched and applied sources of energy that will not (mostly) increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. I would recommend this book to those interested in our options for energy for the future.
 Earth: The Sequel May 11, 2008
An incredible wealth of knowledge! Well worth its price for anyone interrested in looking to the future.
Earth: the Sequel May 9, 2008
This is a very interesting book about all the possible non-fossil fuels that scientists around the world are working on currently. Even for a very non-science oriented person I found it fascinating and hopeful. It would seem after reading this book that we should be able to fuel our homes and cars within a few years with solar or wind.
Climate Change Alleviation May 9, 2008
The authors provide some interesting perspectives
on how to alleviate climate change. They see
new industries, new jobs, investments and virtual
fortunes being made to alleviate climate change.
The authors conclude that a square of land
100 miles has the capability to produce enough
energy to power the USA. I guess that you could
just about do that in the Mojave Desert !
The book states that a 3 kilowatt solar panel
system could cost $21T dollars; however, the
government does provide energy grants to facilitate
this process.
The theory of solar energy is described by negative
flows through a conduction band reuniting with holes
to produce an electric current. Crystalline silicon
absorbs light more slowly.
In the aggregate, the authors believe that we should
do the following:
o reconsider burning cleaner coal due to the
considerable supply
o geothermal energy can create power from the earth
itself
o solar energy has a virtual infinite capacity to
store heat i.e. desert and hot environments
o bio-fuels fermentation
o oceanic energy
o the sterling engine powered by thermal heat
The book presents some companies which could profit
from the current trend toward alternative energy
production:
o Kyocera Group
o Sun Tech
o Solar Tech
The authors present some excellent ideas on how to
deal with current energy exigencies which are
slated to occur early in this century.
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness May 8, 2008
I think the best thing about this book is that it doesn't just sound another alarm about the problems of global warming, the energy crisis, and environmental degradation. Rather, it chronicles all of the hopeful new technology out there that can help to save us all, if only our elected leaders have the wisdom and moral strength to act. Granted, the current administration is just a front for big oil, and will leave our country and the world in a much worse state than when they started. But hopefully, our next administration and Congress will use this kind of information to make enlightened decisions for all of us. A courageous book, which will probably be attacked by those most responsible for the mess we're in. Krupp always speaks truth to power. Bravo!
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