
Earth
The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
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Dick Hill
The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of the Environmental Defense Fund, brings a stirring and hopeful call to arms: We can solve global warming. And in doing so, we will build the new industries, jobs, and fortunes of the 21st century.
In Earth: The Sequel, listeners will encounter the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it. Among them: a frontier impresario who keeps his ice hotel frozen all summer long with the energy of hot springs; a utility engineer who feeds smokestack gases from coal-fired plants to voracious algae, then turns them into fuel; and a tribe of Native Americans, fishermen in the roughest Pacific waters for 2,000 years, who are now harvesting the fierce power of the waves themselves.
These entrepreneurs are poised to remake the world's biggest business and save the planet - if America's political leaders give them a fair chance to compete.
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Editorial reviews
Horn have a solution to defeat global warming and ultimately save the Earth as we know it. It's all presented here in a fascinating account of contemporary entrepreneurs who are taking matters into their own hands. Subjects include Native American fishermen who have managed to harness wind power and an ice hotel operator who keeps his building running all summer long through unconventional means. Narrator Dick Hill delivers a powerful blow against environmental decline with a spirited yet slightly underplayed performance that acts to inform first and to entertain second. The result gives listeners valuable insights into the current global threat and a means to save our planet.
The problem I had was too much information--too many topics mostly unrelated to one another. Characters came and went in a few minutes with an anecdotal description of their revolutionary idea or start up company. I gave up trying to figure out who was who and listened for the inventions. This book would probably would hang together more coherently as a read rather than a listen.
Even though it is a somewhat tedious, the basic idea of the book, that the free market should be allowed to solve global warming though the trading of carbon credits, comes through convincingly.
Interesting information; reads like a list
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If you are concerned with the high price of gas, heating fuel and other present day forms of energy I encourage you to read this book. It is loaded with hard facts and scientific evidence that lay out the reasons why we must reduce carbon emissions. I found it fascinating to discover all of the alternative energy sources that are being worked on and look forward to seeing some of these become a reality in the future.
Until I listened to this book I had never heard of the Cap and Trade proposal for carbon emissions but by the time I finished the book I realized its importance and was e-mailing my Senators to support this leglisation.
ABSOLUTELY FACINATING!
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This book surveys the main sources of alternative energies- solar, biofuel, wind, geothermal and oceanic. Then goes into considerable depth into describing various works going on into each area. For example, in solar energy alone, the book details over half a dozen approaches to make solar energy an efficient, cheap and viable solution. The authors describe the technology in simple terms, but with sufficient depth. At the same time, they mention the business viability and political issues. A very well rounded approach indeed!
One recurring theme throughout the book is the necessity of a carbon cap and trade program. Without a price on carbon emission, the playing field between the fossil fuels and renewable energy sources will remain uneven and the renewables will not have a chance to flourish. Free market is an wonderful instrument, but is completely dumb. Information has to be injected into the market system regarding the cost of everything.
Currently, the polluters dump the greenhouse gases into the atmosphere without a price tag. The result is sea level rise, destruction of natural habitats, melting glaciers, agricultural yield reduction, increase of diseases, environmental refugees and on and on. Doesn't these all have a price tag? Once this price tag is attached with pollution, the underlying strength of innovation and free market will unleash and get a chance to save this civilization that faces the greatest challenge in many centuries - the global warming.
This book will be enjoyable by the environmentally conscious readers, the entrepreneurs, the science lovers and just about anyone who is interested in staying informed
A survey to the next industrial revolution
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Great
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Solutions instead of Hype and Hysterics
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Good info; but a dry read
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Overall I would describe the structure of the book as random, but the content was motivating and inspiring.
Hopeful/Inspiring But Lacking Concrete Arguments
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