Power Hungry: The Myths of Green Energy, and the Real Fuels of the Future

The promise of green jobs and a clean energy future has roused the masses. But as Robert Bryce makes clear in this provocative book, that vision needs a major re-vision. We cannotand will notquit using carbon-based fuels at any time in the near future for a simple reason: they provide the horsepower that we crave. The hard reality is that oil, coal, and natural gas are here to stay. Fueling our society requires more than sentiment and rhetoric; we need to make good decisions and smart investments based on facts. In Power Hungry, Bryce provides a supertanker-load of footnoted facts while shepherding readers through basic physics and math. And with the help of a panoply of vivid graphics and tables, he crushes a phalanx of energy myths, showing why renewables are not green, carbon capture and sequestration wont work, and evensurprise!that the U. S. is leading the world in energy efficiency. He also charts the amazing growth of the fuels of the future: natural gas and nuclear. Power Hungry delivers a clear-eyed view of what America has in the tank, and whats needed to transform the gargantuan global energy sector.

About the Author :
Robert Bryce is one of America's top energy journalists. His work has appeared in numerous publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to The Nation and Atlantic Monthly to Oklahoma Stripper. He is the author of Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron, named one of the best non-fiction books of 2002 by Publishers Weekly, Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate, and The Gusher Of Lies. Bryce is the managing editor of Energy Tribune. He lives in Austin.

Review :
Kirkus "Capably argued... advocates of renewable energy should familiarize themselves with the book, since oil, gas and coal lobbyists surely will." Philadelphia Inquirer "Bryce is especially good at explaining why fossil fuels have become entrenched as our main energy sources." Library Journal "Bryce uses copious facts and research to make a compelling case that renewable sources have their place in our energy future but they aren't the viable panacea we're led to believe." Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, April 23, 2010 "Any new Robert Bryce book, in my opinion, had one tough hurdle to clear: I'd found Bryce's first book, Gusher of Lies, impossible to put down." American Spectator, April 26, 2010 "Endlessly fascinating reading." Wall Street Journal, April 27, 2010 "A brutal brilliant exploration... If Power Hungry sounds like a supercharged polemic, its shocks are delivered with forensic skill and narrative aplomb.... It is unsentimental, unsparing and impassioned; and, if you'll excuse the pun, it is precisely the kind of journalism we need to hold truth to power." "Kirkus" "Capably argued... advocates of renewable energy should familiarize themselves with the book, since oil, gas and coal lobbyists surely will." "Philadelphia Inquirer" "Bryce is especially good at explaining why fossil fuels have become entrenched as our main energy sources." "Library Journal" "Bryce uses copious facts and research to make a compelling case that renewable sources have their place in our energy future but they aren't the viable panacea we're led to believe." "Ft. Worth Star-Telegram", April 23, 2010 "Any new Robert Bryce book, in my opinion, had one tough hurdle to clear: I'd found Bryce's first book, "Gusher of Lies", impossible to put down." "American Spectator", April 26, 2010 "Endlessly fascinating reading." "Wall Street Journal", April 27, 2010 "A brutal brilliant exploration... If "Power Hungry" sounds like a supercharged polemic, its shocks are delivered with forensic skill and narrative aplomb.... It is unsentimental, unsparing and impassioned; and, if you'll excuse the pun, it is precisely the kind of journalism we need to hold truth to power." "Washington Times", May 31, 2010 "[Bryce's] magnificently unfashionable, superlatively researched new book dares to fly in the face of all current conventional wisdom and cant.... I have never yet found any book or author who does a more thorough, unanswerable job of demolishing universally held environmental myths than Mr. Bryce does.... Mr. Obama is reputed to be an omnivorous reader of serious intellectual volumes. He should drop everything else and put Robert Bryce's invaluable book at the top of his list. So should every senator and Congress member and every self-important, scientifically illiterate pundit in America, right and left alike. They will all learn a lot." "National Review", August 2, 2010"Should be mandatory reading for U.S. policymakers."