Energy for the 21st century: a comprehensive guide to conventional and alternative sources

Are we on Easter Island?

Electricity and the utility industry

Biomass

Coal

The story of big oil

Oil

Natural gas

Nuclear and hydropower

Sustainable energy

Looking toward the future

An energy strategy.

1. 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 2. 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 3. 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 4. 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 Today Role of Coal Among the Major Consumers The Case Against Coal Clean Coal Technologies Eliminating Coal Not So Easy 5. 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 Role of Oil Companies After the Oil Crisis A Changing World Are Oil Companies' Margins All That Great? The Future Role of Oil Companies 6. 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 Alternative Fueled Vehicles Enhancing Engine Efficiency Internalizing an Externality Is This Politically Acceptable?

7. 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 8. NUCLEAR AND HYDRO POWER 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 9. SUSTAINABLE ENERGY 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

10. 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 (LED)

CAFE Standards

11. 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.