Energy History

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    • A History
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization and offers listeners a magisterial overview of humanity's energy eras....

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    • A Human History
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....

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    • Keys to Understanding Our Hidden Past, Emerging Energy Age and Enlightened Future
    • By: Joseph Selbie, David Steinmetz, Swami Kriyananda - foreword
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Today's view of history cannot account for ancient anomalies, such as the Pyramids and advanced knowledge contained in India's Vedas. But in 1894, an Indian sage gave us an explanation not only for our hidden past but for the trends of today and for our future enlightenment....

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    • How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
    • By: George M. Church, Ed Regis
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-20
    • Language: English
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    • A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life....

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    • Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
    • By: Leah Cardamore Stokes
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development Series
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas....

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    • Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
    • By: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: Matt Ridley
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 373 ratings
    • Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. It is innovation that will shape the 21st century....

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

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    • The Healing Power of Dark Matter
    • By: Yury Kronn, Jurriaan Kamp - contributor, Bruce Lipton - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-22
    • Language: English
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    • Instruments of modern physics can measure the energies of the electromagnetic spectrum, but these energies only account for roughly 4 percent of the total identifiable mass-energy of the universe. Yury Kronn explores the nature of the remaining 96% of the universe’s mass-energies....

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    • By: Nikola Tesla
    • Narrated by: David Van Der Molen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Where does human energy come from, and where is it going? In this fascinating text, notable inventor Nikola Tesla examines these fundamental questions as he theorizes ways of maximizing human energy....

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    • By: Nikola Tesla
    • Narrated by: Ryan Jarvis
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Written in 1900 by Nikola Tesla, this book gives great ideas on automation, agriculture, energy, and increasing human output to improve the human condition....

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    • Making Energy Poverty History with an Energy Mix
    • By: NJ Ayuk
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • In just a few short decades, the many countries of our planet have become interconnected beyond our wildest imaginations. While thinking globally is often well-meaning, acting globally without consideration for local countries can unintentionally cause harmful results....

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    • A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
    • By: James Morton Turner
    • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • In Charged, James Morton Turner unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving "the battery problem" is critical to a clean energy transition.

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    • A Little Book on Thermodynamics
    • By: R. Stephen Berry
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain accessibly an important but subtle scientific theory....

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    • The Story of Energy
    • By: Michael E. Webber
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A global tour of energy - the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat....

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    • The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy
    • By: Robert Vitalis
    • Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • A bracing corrective to the myths that have shaped economic, military, and diplomatic policy, dispelling our oil-soaked fantasies of dependence....

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    • Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
    • By: Robert Bryce
    • Narrated by: Robert Bryce
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Historically, it was guns, germs, and steel that determined the fates of people and nations. Now, more than ever, it is electricity....

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    • The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy
    • By: John Perlin, Mark Z. Jacobson - foreword
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-22
    • Language: English
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    • Let It Shine is a fully revised and expanded edition of A Golden Thread, Perlin's classic history of solar technology, detailing the past forty years of technological developments driving today's solar renaissance....

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