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title: "Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate"
brand: "vaclav smil"
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# Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate

**Brand:** vaclav smil
**Price:** 876 kr
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- **What is this?** Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate by vaclav smil
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Succinct
*by B***N on June 17, 2019*

This book gets to the point about what works and does not. I personally hold dreams of grandeur as they pertain toalternative energy, and I am in constant need of a rational and reasoned approach to the needs humanity has for future energy production. This book had a grounding effect on me.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Energy myths and Realities
*by S***R on December 21, 2010*

Yet another book, Energy Myths & Realities, by Vaclav Smil, I now read all of them, he is like an international resource, explaining what we take for granted. We ride so comfortably we don't notice the wheels others have made so that we roll on.Smil is skeptical of new developments, often they are fads. He explains the wonders of today's world why gasoline, diesel oil and coal are wonderful why we are unlikely to replace them anytime soon. We already voted for all this with our money so lets grow up and be happy with our accomplishments.Smil subtitles his book "bringing science to the energy policy debate' but he also quotes at the start the Roman playwright terence "Men believe what they want to"Things just don't make sense. Watch Smil dive in to smite idiocy after idiocy. But there is an idiocy that he never touches which I will try to explain. Solar energy is held out as a great hope by some but measured and counted all wrong.Men are so enchanted by their fuels and the machines that burn them that they ignore uses of the sun which do not closely imitate the machines. Even Smil fails to add the energy from men eating food that power their foot travel, constructions, procreation and thinking. This habit of ignoring the obvious he extends to ignoring windows, skylights, clotheslines, indeed all of daylight which most of us use to our advantage. To add to the list consider travel where we generally follow the lead of birds flying from the too cold to the temperate.There is a vast puzzle to explore here, puny man a tiny electrically obsessed dwarf set in an immense solar powered backdrop.Steve Baer

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This should be required reading for all elected officials...
*by W***S on January 31, 2014*

...and, for all the starry-eyed "greenies" and their "climate denier" counter-parts. Debunks the myths, and topples more than a few self-styled icons, while letting the data form the facts. Wishful thinking should have no part in the energy discussions, and policies which will emerge from those dialogues. Smil is the consummate "myth buster" and is not friends with either camp in the contentious arguments.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate
- Energy and Civilization: A History (Mit Press)
- Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

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