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The Hydrogen Economy Jeremy Rifkin

The Hydrogen Economy By Jeremy Rifkin

The Hydrogen Economy by Jeremy Rifkin


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In The Hydrogen Economy, best--selling author Jeremy Rifkin takes us on an eye--opening journey into the next great commercial era in history.

The Hydrogen Economy Summary

The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin

In The Hydrogen Economy, best--selling author Jeremy Rifkin takes us on an eye--opening journey into the next great commercial era in history. He envisions the dawn of a new economy powered by hydrogen that will fundamentally change the nature of our market, political and social institutions, just as coal and steam power did at the beginning of the industrial age. Rifkin observes that we are fast approaching a critical watershed for the fossil--fuel era, with potentially dire consequences for industrial civilization. Experts had been saying that we had another forty or so years of cheap available crude oil left. Now, however, some of the worlda s leading petroleum geologists are suggesting that global oil production could peak and begin a steep decline much sooner, as early as the end of this decade, sending oil prices through the roof. While the fossil fuel era is entering its sunset years, a new energy regime is being born that has the potential to remake civilization. Hydrogen is the most basic and ubiquitous element in the universe. It is the stuff of the stars and of our sun and, when properly harnessed, it is the "forever fuel." It never runs out and produces no harmful CO2 emissions. Commercial fuel--cells powered by hydrogen are just now being introduced into the market for home, office and industrial use. The major automakers have spent more than two billion dollars developing hydrogen cars, buses, and trucks, and the first mass--produced vehicles are expected to be on the road in just a few years. In the new era, says Rifkin, every human being could become the producer as well as the consumer of his or her own energy -- so called "distributed generation." When millions of end--users connect their fuel--cells into local, regional, and national hydrogen energy webs (HEWs), using the same design principles and smart technologies that made possible the World Wide Web, they can begin to share energy -- peer--to--peer -- creating a new decentralized form of energy use. Hydrogen has the potential to end the worlda s reliance on imported oil and help diffuse the dangerous geopolitical game being played out between Muslim militants and Western nations. It will dramatically cut down on carbon dioxide emissions and mitigate the effects of global warming. And because hydrogen is so plentiful and exists everywhere on earth, every human being could be "empowered," making it the first truly democratic energy regime in history.

The Hydrogen Economy Reviews

"Rifkin, who is an influential writer and lecturer at a major American business school, has produced a very readable book with an important message. It deserves to be studied in governments, in the boardrooms of business and, more important, by the citizens of the world -- for it is up to them to plan their destiny within realistic options. In short, it speaks of nothing less than the survival of the species." Times Higher Education Supplement

About Jeremy Rifkin

Jeremy Rifkin is the best--selling author of The End of Work, The Biotech Century, and The Age of Access, each of which has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Since 1994, Mr. Rifkin has been a fellow at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program, where he lectures to CEOs and senior corporate management from around the world on new trends in science and technology and their impacts on the global economy, society and the environment. He is also an advisor to heads of state and government officials in a number of countries. Mr. Rifkin's monthly column on global issues appears in many of the world's leading newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian in the United Kingdom. He is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Between Realities; Chapter 2: Sliding Down Hubbert's Bell Curve; Chapter 3: Energy and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations; Chapter 4: The Fossil--Fuel Era; Chapter 5: The Islamist Wildcard; Chapter 6: A Global Meltdown; Chapter 7: Vulnerabilities Along the Seams; Chapter 8: The Dawn of the Hydrogen Economy; Chapter 9: Reglobalization from the Bottom Up

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GOR001389841
9780745630427
0745630421
The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Polity Press
2002-10-02
304
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