Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (539 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00IHGVRZG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 435 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book is also a sustained argument against the fundamentally pessimistic worldview that underlies those policies. Don't be misled by Robert Bryce's very breezy style. His new book makes important and positive observations about the world's energy future. The claim that we can and should replace fossil fuels with renewables such as wind and solar is, Bryce says, a "damnable lie" that obscures the far more important question of what we should do to make more energy available to more people, especially 'the more than two billion people who are still living in abject energy poverty."John Daniel Davidson, National Review"A book brimming with well-founded enthusiasm about the amazing presen
Fine work on the process and progress of innovation Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is a fascinating examination of the process and progress of innovation. Author Robert Bryce has picked a wide range of examples, from cellphones and computer chips to steam engines and Tour de France bicycles, explaining how each of these became smaller, faster, lighter, denser or . "A must read for Obama, the EPA and the Department of Energy." according to Harvey Ring. Wow! This book lays it all out with all the details and facts to back up the competitive advantage we have in the US vs the rest of the world. The cost of energy acts like a tax on everything we do. Why does this administration want us to give up that competitive advantage to other countries? Today it costs about $010 . I wanted to disagree with with what he said Tim Kent But I couldn't. The author provided fact after fact, great logic and excellent rhetoric.The math and science is straightforward and unequivocal. For example: the equivalent of half of the US's crop land was used around the world to replace half of one percent of the world's oil usage with biofuels. Biofuels are a nonst
Bryce profiles innovative individuals and companies, from long-established ones like Ford and Intel to upstarts like Aquion Energy and Khan Academy. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is providing consumers with Cheaper and more abundant energy, Faster computing, Lighter vehicles, and myriad other goods. From the vacuum tube, mass-produced fertilizer, and the printing press to mobile phones, nanotech, and advanced drill rigs, Bryce demonstrates how cutting-edge companies and breakthrough technologies have created a world in which people are living longer, freer, he