Contents
Preface to the Enhanced Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Part One - Smelling Land
1. A Cabin Boy's Legacy
2. Charting the Course: Toward a Cleaner, Richer Hydrogen Age
Part Two - Civilization's Energy System
3. Turning out the Lights
4. A Concept: Energy Currencies
5. Energy Currencies: The Key to Systemic Liberty
6. The Energy System and Its Five-Link Architecture
7. Whales and Whiskey Barrels
8. The Gods of Energy Planning Foolishness
Part Three - Intermezzo
9. Mozart, Metaphor and Math
Part Four - Understanding Environmental Intrusion
10. From Oil Lamps to Light Bulbs: Pathways to Environmental Gentility
11. Tidal Flats and Airports: Quantifying Environmental Intrusion
12. Metastability: When You Can’t Go Home Again
13. Bubble, Bubble, Signs of Trouble
14. Controversy, Conveyors and Consequences
Part Five - Sustainability and the Coming Hydrogen Age
15. Template for Sustainability
16. The Tyranny of Surprise
17. Hydrogen: The Case for Inevitability
18. For Better or Worse
19. Can Something Better Come Along?
Part Six - Earth's Energy System
20. Afternoon on a Hillside
21. Conservation, Confusion and Language
22. Entropy and Living Planets
23. It’s Exergy!
24. Exergy Takes Us Beyond the Lamppost
25. A Whiff of Earth from Afar
Part Seven - Intermezzo
26. From Steam Engines to Symphonies
Part Eight - Harvesting Exergy Sources
27. The Great Enemy of Truth
28. Fossil Sources: A Lot Will Be Left in the Ground
29. Renewables and Conventional Wishdom
30. Fissile Sources: ‘Running out’ Won’t Be a Problem
31. ‘You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught’: Know Nukes
Part Nine - Working with Hydrogen
32. Harvesting Hydrogen
33. But Doesn’t Hydrogen Explode?
34. Tethers and Transition Tactics
35. OK! Now Tell Me About Cost
36. We Never Know Everything, But
Part Ten - Intermezzo
37. Chasing Locomotives
Part Eleven - Service Technologies
38. Fuelcells: Chip of the Future
39. Hydrogen on Board
40. Contrails against an Azure Sky
Part Twelve - Intermezzo
41. Nineteenth-Century Prescience
Part Thirteen - On Where We Are and Where We Should Go From Here
42. Arrows on the Wall
43. A Journey to the Deep Future
44. If I Could Wave a Wand
45. If Shocked Awake, How Fast Could We Get to the Hydrogen Age?
Part Fourteen - Coda
46. Our Sliver of Time
Appendices
A. About Names, Numbers and Units
B. More Learning the Ropes
C. Some Bits and Pieces
Appreciations
References
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