When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation (SpringerBriefs in Energy)
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3319263730 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 132 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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A.J. . Friedemann is perhaps best known for "Peak Soil", which David Pimentel at Cornell, Tad Patzek at U.C. Friedemann is the creator of energyskeptic/. Berkeley, and Walter Youngquist (author of "Geodestinies") edited. Ms
. Friedemann is the creator of energyskeptic/. Berkeley, and Walter Youngquist (author of "Geodestinies") edited. Friedemann is perhaps best known for "Peak Soil", which David Pimentel at Cornell, Tad Patzek at U.C. About the Author A.J. Ms
Hugh Owens said Energy Book of the Year. If you read just one book this year, When the Trucks stop running by Alice Friedeman should be that book. This book's primary focus is the overweening importance of transportation energy which is 95% petroleum based to the country that uses the most oil and is the most dependent upon that oil. Her first chapter is entitled "When the trucks stop running, America stops" and she lays out a scenario in a 7 day period exactly what it would be like in the US on each of those seven days if the trucks stopped. Friedeman states in exceedingly clear and graphic detail the danger of the United. Amazon Customer said There will be peak oil costing gas more every year for years.. Even with short lived fracking, there will be peak oil with more demand and less production in not many years.= more $ per gallon going up.Large trucks, trains, planes, and ships cannot run on batteries, and electricity to run them is difficult, expensive and often impossible.
Although this transportation revolution has allowed many of us to fill our homes with global goods even a past emperor would envy, our era of abundance, and the freight transport system in particular, is predicated on the affordability and high energy density of a single fuel, oil. This book explores alternatives to this finite resource including other liquid fuels, truck and locomotive batteries and utility-scale energy storage technology, and various forms of renewable electricity to support electrified transport. Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone of civilization, hauling the goods that fulfill our every need and desire. In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplie