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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
5.0
Perhapst he most comprehensive book on the world of energy I have read to date.
"The harnessing of energy is what makes possible the world as we know it. The bounty can be measured in terms of virtually everything we do in the course of a day. But can we bet on that for the future?
The growth in world energy demand in the coming decades will be very large. The increase alone will be greater than all the energy that the world consumed in 1970. This increase is really a measure of success - of a more prosperous global economy, of rising standards of living, of billions of people moving out of power".
"The harnessing of energy is what makes possible the world as we know it. The bounty can be measured in terms of virtually everything we do in the course of a day. But can we bet on that for the future?
The growth in world energy demand in the coming decades will be very large. The increase alone will be greater than all the energy that the world consumed in 1970. This increase is really a measure of success - of a more prosperous global economy, of rising standards of living, of billions of people moving out of power".