Energy A Human History
Richard Rhodes
Published 2018
480 pages
The most popular energy books
Energy books explain how the world is powered. Oil, gas, nuclear, wind, solar and the grid that ties them together are covered, along with the hard choices of moving away from fossil fuels. Read them for the science, the economics and the politics of keeping the lights on.
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The Radioactive Boy Scout The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor
Ken Silverstein
Published 2004
240 pages
About a Mountain
John D'Agata
Published 2010
236 pages
Heat
George Monbiot with research assistance from Dr Matthew Prescott
2006 · 2007 edition
304 pages
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich
1973 · 2021 edition
110 pages
AC/DC
Tom McNichol
2006 · 2008 edition
210 pages
Entanglement The Greatest Mystery in Physics
Amir D. Aczel
Published 2002
320 pages
Why Your World is about to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
Jeff Rubin
Published 2009
286 pages
Positive Energy 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear Into Vibrance, Strength, and Love
Judith Orloff
Published 2004
353 pages
The Transition Handbook
Rob Hopkins, Robert Hopkins
2008 · 2014 edition
240 pages
Electric Universe
David Bodanis
2003 · 2005 edition
256 pages
END OF OIL
Paul Roberts
Published 2005
412 pages
Saudi America
Bethany McLean
Published 2018
138 pages
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight Power in the Era of Post-humanity
Slavoj Žižek
Published 2018
222 pages
The First Billion Is the Hardest
T. Boone Pickens, Arthur Morey
Published 2008
272 pages
The Jazz of Physics The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
Stephon Alexander
Published 2016
272 pages
Sun in a Bottle The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
Charles Seife
Published 2008
294 pages
The Upcycle Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance
William McDonough, Michael Braungart
Published 2013
227 pages
Plutopia Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Kathryn L. Brown
Published 2013
406 pages
The Absent Superpower The Shale Revolution and a World Without America
Peter Zeihan
Published 2016
419 pages
Armed Madhouse
Greg Palast
2006 · 2007 edition
400 pages
Fossil Future Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less
Alex Epstein
Published 2022
480 pages
Atomic Adventures Secret Islands, Forgotten N-rays, and Isotopic Murder--a Journey Into the Wild World of Nuclear Science
James A. Mahaffey
Published 2017
363 pages
The Green Collar Economy How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
Van Jones, Ariane Conrad
2008 · 2009 edition
272 pages