Green: Your Place in the New Energy Revolution

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The Hoffmans use their years of experience to explain the technological and economic future of renewable energy, incisively explaining its politics and what the U.S. "should" be doing.

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Publishers Weekly (04/21/2008)
According to the authors of this optimistic assessment of the global energy crisis, the current gluttonous dependence on nonrenewable fossil fuels is merely an ecologically ruinous interlude between energy ages. In the authors decidedly long view, mankind survived for centuries without much need for oil, coal and natural gasalthough humans were using all three in limited fashion as early as 3000 B.C., petroleum was first pumped from a well in Pennsylvania only in 1859and can do so again. The Hoffmans argue that as technology improves efficiencies, solar fields, wind farms, geothermal drilling and biomass crops will replace fossil fuels as energy sources, a process driven as much by economic self-interest as by pressure for a more sane environmental future. They dismiss both the hydrogen economy and corn-based ethanol as unfeasible energy sources, but suggest that an African weed, jatropha, has the potential to turn that poverty-stricken continent into the Saudi Arabia of biofuel. Accessible and surprisingly entertaining, this informed overview of available paths to relatively pollution-free energy resources is a level-headed primer on the world to come. "(July)" Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal (09/01/2008)
She is a policy wonk specializing in consumer issues; he is managing director of a leading renewable energy fund. They provide a good general discussion of energy issues (particularly renewables), take a fascinating look at emerging technologies, and offer some sensible solutions to the crisis (e.g., do something about oil subsidies, keep pressure on elected officials to enact sound energy policy). This is a light read, suitable for most collections. Some readers will warm to the authors' chatty style, but others may find it irritatingly chummy. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.

ISBN: 0230605443 | EAN: 9780230605442
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan  | Publication Date: June, 2008

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