The Hydrogen EconomyThe road to global security," writes Jeremy Rifkin, "lies in lessening our dependence on Middle East oil and making sure that all people on Earth have access to the energy they need to sustain life. Weaning the world off oil and turning it toward hydrogen is a promissory note for a safer world." Rifkin's international bestseller The Hydrogen Economy presents the clearest, most comprehensive case for moving ourselves away from the destructive and waning years of the oil era toward a new kind of energy regime. Hydrogen-one of the most abundant substances in the universe-holds the key, Rifkin argues, to a cleaner, safer, and more sustainable world. |
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... oil from existing fields . According to the Energy Information Administration ( EIA ) of the U.S. Department of Energy , global peak production for cheap crude oil is nearly thirty - five years away , plenty of time to make the ...
... oil from existing fields . According to the Energy Information Administration ( EIA ) of the U.S. Department of Energy , global peak production for cheap crude oil is nearly thirty - five years away , plenty of time to make the ...
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... crude reserves were listed between 650 billion and 700 billion bar- rels . By the 1990s , 300 billion additional barrels of crude oil had been added to global proved reserves - one - third of all world reserves- despite the fact that no ...
... crude reserves were listed between 650 billion and 700 billion bar- rels . By the 1990s , 300 billion additional barrels of crude oil had been added to global proved reserves - one - third of all world reserves- despite the fact that no ...
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Jeremy Rifkin. So Reality Check o , how much cheap crude oil is still out there and available to be recovered ? With the introduction of 3 - D digital seismic methods in the late 1960s , geologists have been able to pinpoint new oil ...
Jeremy Rifkin. So Reality Check o , how much cheap crude oil is still out there and available to be recovered ? With the introduction of 3 - D digital seismic methods in the late 1960s , geologists have been able to pinpoint new oil ...
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... crude oil is now about 24 billion barrels per year and rising but that we're only finding less than twelve billion barrels of recoverable oil in new fields each year , and even that number is expected to decline with each passing year ...
... crude oil is now about 24 billion barrels per year and rising but that we're only finding less than twelve billion barrels of recoverable oil in new fields each year , and even that number is expected to decline with each passing year ...
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... oil at the current rates of use , and that the economically recoverable amount is equivalent to only 152 days of oil ... crude - oil reserves . It's illusory even to suggest that the exploding populations of the developing nations will ...
... oil at the current rates of use , and that the economically recoverable amount is equivalent to only 152 days of oil ... crude - oil reserves . It's illusory even to suggest that the exploding populations of the developing nations will ...
Contents
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ENERGY AND THE RISE AND FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS | 37 |
THE FOSSILFUEL ERA | 64 |
THE ISLAMIST WILD CARD | 91 |
A GLOBAL MELTDOWN | 124 |
VULNERABILITIES ALONG THE SEAMS | 145 |
THE DAWN OF THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY | 176 |
REGLOBALIZATION FROM THE BOTTOM UP | 218 |
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