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The Energy Trap

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In this short, sharp book, Richard Lyon - electrical engineer, petroleum engineer and energy economist - strips the energy debate back to the physics. What he finds is alarming: the fossil fuels are running out, the proposed replacements can't do the job and the people in charge don't understand the science well enough to realise.

But this is not a counsel of despair. There is a way through - if we stop wasting what remains on systems that can't work and start building the one that can.
Author Richard Lyon
Narrator Richard Lyon
Duration 2 hours and 53 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781800757370
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Energy technology and engineering
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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