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People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. Your final book is rather different again. This is The Planet Remade by Oliver Morton, published in 2015. This is a book largely about geoengineering. How is this relevant to the great energy transitions?
From a psychological perspective, dark feminine energy can be seen as a manifestation of the unconscious mind. This energy represents aspects of the psyche that are often repressed or ignored, such as anger, aggression, and sexuality. By tapping into this energy, individuals can gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their place in the world. Some psychologists also view dark feminine energy as a way to challenge traditional gender roles and societal norms. By embracing their own power and strength, women can break free from the constraints of patriarchal society and assert their own identities. This can lead to greater self-confidence, self-esteem, and a sense of purpose. Author Insights In The Planet Remade, leading science writer Oliver Morton takes us on a thrilling journey through the world of geo-engineering. Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. Our body is not a separate island in the ocean, separate from everything… Our body is part of the ocean. The body is a small Universe in bigger Universe.
I say that solar photovoltaics will form, for the majority of the world, the bulk of energy supply in fifty years – both electricity and other fuels that have been manufactured using solar energy. That’s an entirely beneficial transition both because solar will be cheap and because it is relatively easy to give people in poorer countries access to electricity that’s from PV — compared to setting up huge power stations and taking networks of electricity cables thousands of kilometres. Although still very much a minority view, I think it is a much less unconventional opinion than it was when I started writing the book in 2015. However, he also points out that the the invention of the Haber-Bosch process in the first decades of the twentieth century enabled the world to convert fossil fuels into nitrogen-based agricultural fertiliser and he calls this geoengineering as well. The application of artificial fertiliser to fields expanded the total amount of energy from food that’s available to the planet’s inhabitants. In turn, that loosened the Malthusian constraints on the world’s population. Smil has shown that before the use of fossil fuels for such things as fertiliser energy availability per person was only a few kilowatt hours a day. At least in terms of existential crisis of global warming, both approaches arrive in overall agreement at the same present situation. Rhodes, in my estimation, has more to offer in terms of possible futures from this point forward. I think that is indeed what he wanted us to take away from this. He hoped we would say ‘Crikey, this is going to be very difficult indeed. We really do need to invest in nuclear energy. We don’t have any choice’. But I think that a lot of his assumptions about renewables now look very conservative. Renewables such as wind and solar are far, far more effective sources of energy than he indicated a decade ago. Renewable energy sources can be used for electricity generation, heating (like solar thermal systems), transportation (like electric cars), or even cooking food (like wood stoves).
In The Switch, you present the astonishingly rapid fall in the cost of solar but you also say that it’s not the only part of the equation. To some extent other renewable energy technologies must play a role. And, crucially, even in the brightest scenario — to coin a foolish phrase — the sun only shines some of the time. So, you’ve got to have storage technologies, particularly in northern and extreme southern latitudes I suppose. Even in India, the sun doesn’t shine at night. Top 11 Books About Renewable Energy 1. Sustainable Energy Transformations, Power And Politics: Morocco And The Mediterranean (Routledge Studies In Energy Transitions) 1st Edition In discussing the modern preoccupation with clean and renewable energy sources, particularly in response to environmental impacts in the developed nations, Rhodes is pessimistic about the ability of these sources to augment and supplant existing dependency on coal, oil, and natural gas. Perhaps due to his past research and writing on atomic weaponry and its civilian application, he believes political and environmentalist objections to nuclear power are either honestly misguided or intentionally dishonest. Audiobook. I cannot say enough about this. It is completely outstanding. When I saw that it was by Richard Rhodes, I couldn’t wait to read it. This is a comprehensive, well thought out and researched book on the history of energy conversion across the last 400 years and its overwhelming and undeniable benefit to the quality of human life and longevity.The concept of dark feminine energy has roots in ancient mythology and religion. In many cultures, the dark feminine is associated with goddesses who embody qualities like death, destruction, and transformation. For example, the Hindu goddess Kali is often depicted as a fierce warrior who destroys evil forces. Similarly, the Greek goddess Hecate is associated with magic, witchcraft, and the underworld. Antinuclear activists, whose agendas originated in a misinformed neo-Malthusian foreboding of overpopulation (and a willingness at the margin to condemn millions of their fellow human beings to death from disease and starvation), may fairly be accused of disingenuousness in their successive against the safest, least polluting, least warming, and most reliable energy source humanity has yet devised. (p. 336) By ‘geoengineering’ we mean alteration of the world’s physical systems in a way that changes the planet’s ecological balance. Most of Oliver Morton’s book is about reducing the amount of the sun’s energy that gets through to the earth’s surface as a way of counterbalancing the increase of the heat blanket in the earth’s atmosphere.
The final chapter contains a stunningly accurate picture of where energy conversion should be headed, and it deserves to be read by all thinking people who care about both the environment and humanity - which are one and the same. The Planet Remade is set against climate change but broadened to include bold and controversial proposals to manipulate the biosphere actively. There are consequences to what we do, and there is no way for us to know what those consequences are yet.
In modern times, the idea of dark feminine energy has been explored in literature and popular culture. Many books and movies feature female characters who embody this energy, using their power to challenge traditional gender roles and societal norms. For example, the character of Lisbeth Salander in Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is a prime example of a woman who embodies dark feminine energy. Psychological Perspectives Yes. Oliver says that we have a big problem. We know that we want to continue to be able to use large amounts of energy, we know that it’s going to be difficult to switch to entirely non-fossil fuel sources and give people cheap reliable energy, therefore, as sensible human beings, we need to think about what happens if we cannot pull down our fossil fuel use fast enough. And what the book is really about is a plea for people to start thinking about this, rather than saying— as they tend to do at the moment—that we shouldn’t talk about geoengineering because it makes us think we have an excuse for not doing anything about carbon emissions because we can always get rid of the problem by throwing up a few thousand tonnes of sulphates into the upper atmosphere. Do you want to live consciously where every action is a choice a conscious decision of what you do what you feel, what you think. Or do you want to be swept out like a little boat in the ocean with big waves, As sensible human beings, we need to think about what happens if we cannot pull down our fossil fuel use fast enough. ” Smil’s Energy and Civilization: A History (2017) is your first choice. This is an extensively updated and expanded version of a book he wrote in 1994. It covers all of the major transitions in human history. Why do you think this book is useful, particularly if your argument is that actually that he underestimates the likely potential speed of change?
This book goes into the sources of your energy. It explains the original power that you have ‘received’. Sustainable Energy Transformations, Power And Politics: Morocco And The Mediterranean (Routledge Studies In Energy Transitions) 1st EditionAre you curious about dark feminine energy? It’s a powerful force that has been explored in literature and psychology for decades. In this section, we’ll explore the origins and history of dark feminine energy, as well as some psychological perspectives that shed light on its meaning and significance. Origins and History
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