图书标签: 能源 科学史 历史 美國 美国 歷史
发表于2024-12-23
Energy: A Human History pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.
People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself.
Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.
In Energy, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He addresses how we learned from such challenges, mastered their transitions, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also looks at the current energy landscape, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100.
Human beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each adaptation brought further challenges, and through such transformations, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes’s singular style, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow.
Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website: RichardRhodes.com
很好的总结了人类对能源利用的历史,不仅仅是科技历史的回顾,也有很多对能源企业傲慢态度的道德性评价,读起来很有意思。美中不足是对新型清洁能源(风、太阳)的介绍太少了,明明是18年的书了应该有很多可以讲的东西了才对;以及基本上都是关于西方世界的,不过也没办法作者就是美国人…
评分Like supersonic, nuclear will prevail again someday in the future. Is nuclear the pinnacle?
评分很好的总结了人类对能源利用的历史,不仅仅是科技历史的回顾,也有很多对能源企业傲慢态度的道德性评价,读起来很有意思。美中不足是对新型清洁能源(风、太阳)的介绍太少了,明明是18年的书了应该有很多可以讲的东西了才对;以及基本上都是关于西方世界的,不过也没办法作者就是美国人…
评分很好的总结了人类对能源利用的历史,不仅仅是科技历史的回顾,也有很多对能源企业傲慢态度的道德性评价,读起来很有意思。美中不足是对新型清洁能源(风、太阳)的介绍太少了,明明是18年的书了应该有很多可以讲的东西了才对;以及基本上都是关于西方世界的,不过也没办法作者就是美国人…
评分Like supersonic, nuclear will prevail again someday in the future. Is nuclear the pinnacle?
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Energy: A Human History pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024