Link
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip073/2006032707.html
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Energy and imagination -- The thinking man’s diet -- Diet basics I : nothing but energy -- Diet basics II : all energy is not equal -- Talking thermodynamics, thinking in pictures : entropy -- The thermodynamics of forgetting : the energy in information -- The energy ride : the big picture of energy metabolism -- The age of atoms -- The age of molecules -- From life to fossil fuels -- Keep cool, man, real cool : human evolution and the origins of imagination -- The great energy rule : first came agriculture -- A tale of two cities : wood to burn -- Saving the forests : coal to burn -- And there was light : oil to burn -- Power unleashed : electricity -- First, the bad news -- Now for the good news -- The thinking man’s energy diet.
ISBN
0307237443
9780307237446
Subject
Renewable energy sources -- United States.
