Energy

interesting insights...besides it is a easy read and understandable. The author was crafty enough to put the reader on track.

It's filled with facts & science ...

Must read !!! For anyone interested in understanding how we consume energy and live and also learn about the kind of problems that we need to address for humans survival

Interesting Read

This book is an excellent primer on Energy especially on biosphere - how we use and waste our precious resources

This book takes you everywhere: what energy is conceptually, how we have quantified it, where we get it, and the past and future of energy. I recommend it.

This is a very interesting book, but most of all a comprehensive review of renewables. Interesting all of the hard fact information that it contains. Highly recommended, fascinating.

Livro muito bom para a proposta de ser um guia para iniciantes no tema. O tema energia é abordado em perspectiva temporal (passado, presente e tendências para o futuro) em setores e atividades mais importantes. Em geral, a leitura é agradável. Apesar do conteúdo ser conciso, os capítulos trazem dados e gráficos interessantes que podem ser consultados posteriormente, mas para isso o índice remissivo poderia ser mais extenso.

Excellent

Vaclav Smil (the author) having already written so many books on subjects related to energy (ex. E. and civilization, or Prime movers, or Making the modern world), one may fear this book is only one more book by the same author on the same subject. However, I feel this book serves a useful purpose because it covers a larger variety of concerns about energy in a smaller volume than previous Smil's books (it almost fits in one's pocket). Covered concerns are the very concept of energy, the climate, its harnessing in history, its role in our modern world, and questions for our future. As usual with this author the book is abundantly documented, and it is laden with numbers, but as the author writes in another book "he will never apologize for that". Altogether, I recommend this book, at least for readers who have not already read Smil on that same subject.