Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.43 (739 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00IHGVRZG |
| Format Type | : | |
| Number of Pages | : | 583 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The claim that we can and should replace fossil fuels with renewables such as wind and solar is, Bryce says, a "damnable lie" that obscures the far more important question of what we should do to make more energy available to more people, especially 'the more than two billion people who are still living in abject energy poverty."John Daniel Davidson, National Review"A book brimming with well-founded enthusiasm about the amazing present and the prospects for a more amazing futureexploding with fascinating energy facts andsuper-fun to read.Bryce takes his appreciation of innovation and uses it to illuminate the past, present, and future of innovation across the board."Fo
Fine work on the process and progress of innovation Peter Z. Grossman Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is a fascinating examination of the process and progress of innovation. Author Robert Bryce has picked a wide range of examples, from cellphones and computer chips to steam engines and Tour de France bicycles, explaining how each of these became smaller, faster, ligh. A must read for Obama, the EPA and the Department of Energy. Wow! This book lays it all out with all the details and facts to back up the competitive advantage we have in the US vs the rest of the world. The cost of energy acts like a tax on everything we do. Why does this administration want us to give up that competitive advantage to other countries? Today it co. "I wanted to disagree with with what he said" according to Tim Kent. But I couldn't. The author provided fact after fact, great logic and excellent rhetoric.The math and science is straightforward and unequivocal. For example: the equivalent of half of the US's crop land was used around the world to replace half of one percent of the world's oil usage with biofuels. Biofu
The catastrophists have been wrong since the days of Thomas Malthus. And he zeroes in on the energy industry, proving that the future belongs to the high power density sources that can provide the enormous quantities of energy the world demands.The tools we need to save the planet aren't to be found in the technologies or lifestyles of the past. From the vacuum tube, mass-produced fertilizer, and the printing press to mobile phones, nanotech, and advanced drill rigs, Bryce demonstrates how cutting-edge companies and breakthrough technologies have created a world in which people are living longer, freer, healthier, lives than at any time in human history.The push toward Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is happening across multiple sectors. This is the time to embrace the innovators and businesses all over the world who are making things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper.. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is providing consumers with Cheaper and more abundant energy, Faster computing, Lighter vehicles, and myriad other goods. That same desire is fostering unprec