Energy wars, notes from the front, William Sargent
Type
Label
Energy wars, notes from the front, William Sargent
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Energy wars
Responsibility statement
William Sargent
Sub title
notes from the front
Summary
Our planet is going through an energy transformation as profound as when the world switched from killing whales to drilling wells to provide its fuel. The effects of this energy war are being felt from Siberia to Texas and in our own backyards. In this far-ranging book, William Sargent takes his readers from a small oil well he owns in East Texas to the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia. In Texas he found wildcatters using carbon dioxide to pump residual oil out of his well then sequestering the heat trapping gas back underground. In Siberia, the readers will find Vladimir Putin gambling that he can both fight sanctions and use western technology to beat America at its own game. Energy Wars will explain that Iran wants to sell oil to the West to put Saudi Arabia out of business and Saudi Arabia wants to sell oil to the West to put U.S. frackers out of business. And finally, lined up against all these big oil players are a growing army of small farmers and local entrepreneurs developing new ways to drive cars, grow food, and harvest energy from the wind and sun. And who is winning this war? Against almost insurmountable odds it is some of these small farmers and entrepreneurs. Finally the author ends up at a divestment rally at Harvard University where he discovers that an old dog can learn new tricks about battling big oil
Table Of Contents
Introduction; An Accidental Oilman; Unanimous Consent; Baked Alaska; Putin's Ploy; Oil and Ebola Lagos; Cooked Alaska; Stop Demonizing Natural Gas; The Pipeline; The Voyage of the Whale Watch Vessel Cetacea; Nukes and Sea Level Rise; Wind Turbines; Wind Energy in the Grand Manner; "Tis an Ill Wind that Blows no Good."; Borrego Solar; True North; Hydroelectric Energy; Geothermal Energy; Locally Grown Geothermal; Biomass; The Problem is Corn Not Drought; Cows and Chickens; Black Gold; Wits and Water; Road Trip!; The Elf and the Water Maker; "Liken Him unto a Foolish Man Who Builds his House on Sand."; My Solar Neighbor; Putin's Problem; Capitalism vs. the Climate?; Think Global, Act Local; Putin's Dilimma; OPEC; Obama's Legacy; Dead Rats; Big Oil: The Beginning of the End?; Another Rockefeller?; Showdown; Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks