California Burning The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid
Katherine Blunt
Published 2022
368 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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Green Illusions
Ozzie Zehner
Published 2012
464 pages
Climate of Hope How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
Michael Bloomberg, Carl Pope
Published 2017
264 pages
Crossing the Rubicon The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
Michael C. Ruppert
2003 · 2004 edition
512 pages
The Party's Over
Richard Heinberg
2001 · 2003 edition
288 pages
Material World A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
Ed Conway
Published 2023
512 pages
Oil 101
Morgan Downey
Published 2009
440 pages
The Curve of Binding Energy
John McPhee
1975 · 1994 edition
231 pages
Electrify An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
Saul Griffith
Published 2021
288 pages
Power Failure The Rise and Fall of General Electric
William D. Cohan
2022 · 2023 edition
816 pages
Fundamentals of Electrical Drives
Gopal K. Dubey
1995 · 2002 edition
392 pages
Atomic Awakening
James Mahaffey
Published 2009
352 pages
The Star Builders
Arthur Turrell
Published 2021
272 pages
The New Cold War How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West
Edward Lucas
2008 · 2009 edition
350 pages
A Bright Future
Joshua S. Goldstein, Staffan A. Qvist
Published 2019
288 pages
Carbon Democracy Political Power in the Age of Oil
Timothy Mitchell
2011 · 2023 edition
304 pages
Thermodynamics An Engineering Approach
Yunus A. Cengel, Michael A. Boles
1989 · 2024 edition
948 pages
Saudi, Inc.
Ellen R Wald
2018 · 2024 edition
370 pages
Climate Capitalism
Akshat Rathi
Published 2023
272 pages
The Boom How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
Russell Gold
Published 2014
366 pages
Superpower One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy
Russell Gold
2019 · 2020 edition
336 pages
Atoms and Ashes A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
Serhii Plokhy
Published 2022
384 pages
The Green New Deal
Jeremy Rifkin
Published 2019
293 pages
Soul Full of Coal Dust
Chris Hamby
2019 · 2020 edition
448 pages