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| List of Tables and Figures | |
| Preface | |
| Are We on Easter Island? | |
| Easter Island | |
| The Mathematics of Extinction | |
| Progress Is Our Most Important Product | |
| The Unremitting Rise in Population | |
| The Case of Double Exponential Growth | |
| A Lesson in Fish | |
| From Hunting to Farming | |
| Energy Depletion | |
| Notes | |
| Electricity and the Utility Industry | |
| It Takes Energy to Make Energy | |
| Energy for Electricity Generation | |
| Enhancing Efficiency in Electricity Generation | |
| Early History of Electricity | |
| Generating Electricity | |
| Generating Electricity Commercially | |
| System Operation | |
| Methods of Rate Regulation | |
| Operating Models of an Era of Deregulation/Liberalization | |
| Utility Pools | |
| When Demand Exceeds Supply | |
| The Real Lesson of California | |
| Notes | |
| Biomass | |
| Yesterday's Fuel | |
| Today's Fuel | |
| China | |
| India | |
| Indonesia | |
| Brazil | |
| Biomass as a Motor Vehicle Fuel | |
| Biomass for Electricity Generation | |
| Biogas | |
| Tomorrow's Fuel | |
| Notes | |
| Coal | |
| The First Energy Crisis | |
| The Origin and History of Coal | |
| Coal and the Industrial Revolution | |
| Coal and Railroads | |
| Coal and Steel | |
| The Rise and Gall of King Coal | |
| Types of Coal | |
| Coal Mining | |
| Coal in the Twenty-first Century | |
| Role of Coal Among the Major Consumers | |
| The Case Against Coal | |
| Clean-Coal Technologies | |
| Eliminating Coal Not So Easy | |
| Notes | |
| The Story of Big Oil | |
| History of Lighting | |
| History of Oil | |
| Enter John D. Rockefeller | |
| Enter Marcus Samuel | |
| Spindletop | |
| Spindletop and Shell | |
| The Emergence of Oil as a Strategically Vital Commodity | |
| The Era of the Seven Sisters | |
| Opening Up the Middle East | |
| Early Attempts at Oil Price Controls | |
| Enter Saudi Arabia and Kuwait | |
| Exit the Key Players | |
| Shareholders and Stakeholders | |
| Development of Saudi Arabia's Oil Fields | |
| The Shoes Begin to Fall | |
| The Next Shoe to Fall | |
| The Birth of OPEC | |
| The 1973 Oil Crisis | |
| The Era of High Oil Prices | |
| The End of the Era of High Oil Prices | |
| The Era of Moderate Oil Prices | |
| It's Not Oil Prices Any More, It's Oil Security | |
| Oil and Diplomacy | |
| Oil and Environmentalists | |
| The Role of Oil Companies After the Oil Crisis | |
| A Changing World | |
| Are Oil Companies' Margins All That Great? | |
| The Future Role of Oil Companies | |
| Notes | |
| Oil | |
| The Earth as an Oil Manufacturer | |
| Formation of Oil | |
| Oil Exploration | |
| Drilling Rights | |
| Drilling Equipment | |
| Directional Drilling | |
| Offshore Drilling Rigs | |
| Evaluating a Well | |
| Completing a Well | |
| Moving the Oil to the Well | |
| Maintaining Reservoir Pressure | |
| Getting the Oil to a Refinery | |
| Tankers and Barges | |
| Oil Spills | |
| Refining | |
| Oil Reserves | |
| Are We on the Downward Slippery Slope? | |
| Comparison of Major Discoveries versus Consumption | |
| Was 2004 a Watershed Year? | |
| Synthetic Crude | |
| Challenge of Oil: The Automobile | |
| Vehicles That Use Alternative Fuels | |
| Enhancing Engine Efficiency | |
| Internalizing an Externality | |
| Is This Politically Acceptable? | |
| Notes | |
| Natural Gas | |
| Background | |
| Early History of Coal Gas | |
| History of Natural Gas | |
| The Battle Over Lighting | |
| Long-Distance Transmission | |
| Federal Regulation | |
| The War Years | |
| Opening Up the Northeast | |
| Last Stop Before Total Regulation | |
| Unraveling Natural Gas Regulation | |
| The Road to Deregulation | |
| From Source to Consumer | |
| Natural Gas as a Fuel | |
| The European Version of Deregulation | |
| LPG: Prelude to LNG | |
| Liquefied Natural Gas | |
| Organizing and Financing the LNG Supply Chain | |
| LNG Carriers | |
| LNG Pricing | |
| The Future of LNG | |
| Gas to Liquids (GTL) Technology | |
| Methane from Coal | |
| Methane from Shale | |
| Methane Hydrates | |
| Notes | |
| Nuclear and HydroPower | |
| Background | |
| What Does a 1,000-Megawatt Plant Mean? | |
| Physics of a Nuclear Reactor | |
| Nuclear Incidents and Accidents | |
| Three Mile Island Incident | |
| Chernobyl | |
| Weapons Proliferation | |
| Disposal of Spent Fuel | |
| Commercial Reactors | |
| Fusion Power | |
| Future of Nuclear Power | |
| Hydropower | |
| The Saga of the Hoover and the Glen Canyon Dams | |
| Aswan High Dam | |
| Notes | |
| Sustainable Energy | |
| The Meaning of Sustainability | |
| Geothermal Energy | |
| Wind Energy | |
| Objections to Wind Power | |
| Evaluating a Potential Site | |
| Financial Incentives | |
| Small Can Be Beautiful | |
| Solar Energy | |
| Thermal Solar Energy | |
| Photovoltaic Energy | |
| Economics of Solar Power | |
| Ocean Energy | |
| Sustainable Energy and Economic Development | |
| A Sustainable Energy Action Plan | |
| Notes | |
| Looking Toward the Future | |
| The Hydrogen Economy | |
| Hydrogen Stores Electricity | |
| Tomorrow's World of Hydrogen | |
| Climate | |
| Climatic Changes During Recorded History | |
| Where is Climate Headed? | |
| Carbon Dioxide Conundrum | |
| Projecting the Future | |
| The Environment | |
| The U.S. Clean Air Acts | |
| The Montreal Protocol | |
| The Kyoto Protocol | |
| Efficiency and Conservation | |
| Energy Star Program | |
| Light-Emitting Diodes | |
| CAFE Standards | |
| Notes | |
| An Energy Strategy | |
| Oil | |
| An Unlikely Projection | |
| Scarcity Playing Itself Out | |
| Increasing Supply | |
| Decreasing Demand | |
| Internalizing and Externality | |
| A Plan to Get Out of the Middle East | |
| Pollution | |
| We Need Time | |
| Notes | |
| Index | |
| About the Author | |
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