David Mackay’s new book is a great resource for preparing for life after petroleum. Read Mapawatt’s review of the book. You can buy it on Amazon or download it for free.
Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air
In a clear and concise review and essay, Robert Zubrin lays out the case for Methanol becoming the energy carrier for the 21st century and beyond.
Zubrin, an aerospace engineer and president of Pioneer Astronautics, comments on the book, Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy written by Nobel laureate chemist, George Olah. His commentary takes [...]
I think it’s fitting that I start out the first of my blog entries with a reading recommendation. In order to understand how to begin weaning yourself off of petroleum,it’s important to understand how it all started. Internal Combustion by Edwin Black chronicles our use of energy from the beginning of time. [...]