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Energy Autonomy |
The Economic, Social and Technological Case for Renewable Energy. This is a new book from the internationally renowned author of The Solar Economy and A Solar Manifesto, and named one of Time Magazine’s "Heroes of the Green Century."
For 200 years industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap carbon fuels. But continued reliance has lead to perilous consequences. On the one hand, the insecurity of relying on the world’s most unstable region--the Middle East--compounded by the imminence of Peak Oil, growing scarcity, and mounting prices.
Yet there is an answer: to make the transition to renewable sources of energy and to distributed, decentralized energy generation. It is a model that has been proven, technologically, commercially and politically, as Scheer comprehensively demonstrates. He shows that the widely advocated return to nuclear power is compromised and illusory.
The energy autonomy route does not just avoid the harm from following business-as-usual, but also offers enormous additional positive benefits. Whole new industries will be created to stimulate the global economy and two billion people, who don't receive electricity now, will have access to it. The advantages are so clear and so overwhelming that resistance to them needs diagnosis, which Scheer also provides, showing why and how entrenched interests oppose the transition and what must be done to overcome these obstacles.
Hermann Scheer is a member of the German Bundestag (Parliament) and President of EUROSOLAR, the European organization for renewable energies. In a career devoted to the replacement of nuclear and fossil fuels with environmentally sound energy sources, Dr. Scheer has received numerous awards, including the World Solar Prize and the Alternative Nobel Prize.
Contents:
Introduction: Renewable Energy: The Deceptive Global Consensus; Part I—Sun or Atom: The Fundamental Conflict of the 21st Century; Part II—Blockades to Action: The Unbroken Power of One-Dimensional Thinking; Part III—Energy Autonomy: The Archimedean Point of the Breakthrough to Renewable Energy.
This is an important book by Scheer, an authority in the field, whose premise is that renewable energy systems have been impaired by a combination of entrenched conventional interests: coal, oil, and nuclear energy, which have both the money and the political clout to derail any threat to their dominance; and fickle public support for renewables, which waxes and wanes with every blip in fuel prices. It is clear that the present course is unsustainable, but big money and public inertia seem to trump any intelligent forward planning. Two major themesilluminate the burden of the book: "Sun or Atom: The Fundamental Conflict of the 21st Century" and "Blockades to Action: The Unbroken Power of One-dimensional Thinking." For students of both this field and global politics. Summing Up: Highly Recommended
-- J.C. Comer, Choice
"A hero for the Green Century."
-- Time Magazine
"Hermann Scheer--principal architect of the policies that converted cloudy Germany into the world's leading market for solar energy--demonstrates that the German model can and must be replicated in every nation that aspires toward a healthy, peaceful future."
-- Denys Hayes, former Director of the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory
"This book is a powerful indictment of how we meet our energy needs. In urging an acceleration of the transition to renewable energy, Scheer exposes the fallacies surrounding the current paradigm and looks beyond the purely environmental benefits to outline the path to energy security."
-- Lester Brown, President,, Earth Policy Institute
"Hermann Scheer has taken aim against a number of our planet's Goliaths all at once. The world needs pioneers like him."
-- Ernst Ulrich von Weizs?cker, Dean of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
"The most important political book of the year."
-- Die Zeit
Hermann Scheer
Published by Earthscan Publications Ltd.
January 2007
320 pp., 6" x 9 1/4"
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