The Bottomless Well

Download or read book The Bottomless Well written by Peter W Huber and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-03-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we must know something about energy. But according to Peter Huber and Mark Mills, the things we "know" are mostly myths. In The Bottomless Well , Huber and Mills debunk the myths and show how a better understanding of energy will radically change our views and policies on a number of very controversial issues. They explain why demand will never go down, why most of what we think of as "energy waste" actually benefits us; why greater efficiency will never lead to energy conservation; and why the energy supply is infinite-it's quality of energy that's scarce and expensive. The Bottomless Well will also revolutionize our thinking about the automotive industry (gas prices don't matter and the hybrid engine is irrelevant), coal and uranium, the much-maligned power grid (it's the worst system we could have except for all the others), what energy supplies mean for jobs and GDP, and many other hotly debated subjects.

Download or read book The Bottomless Well written by Peter William Huber and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary look at energy theory shatters commonly held perceptions and myths about fuel, explaining how demand will never go down, the benefits of energy "waste," the infinite nature of energy, and the finite nature of quality power. 30,000 first printing.

Download or read book Journey to the Bottomless Pit written by Elizabeth Mitchell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating story.” —LeVar Burton The thrilling adventures of a slave who became known worldwide for his explorations of Mammoth Cave. If you toured Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in the year 1838, you would have been led by candlelight through dark, winding tunnels to the edge of a terrifying bottomless pit. Your guide would have been seventeen-year-old Stephen Bishop, an African American slave who became known around the world for his knowledge of Mammoth Cave. Bishop needed bravery, intelligence, and curiosity to explore the vast cavern. Using only a lantern, rope, and other basic caving equipment, he found a way to cross the bottomless pit and discover many more miles of incredible grottoes and tunnels. For the rest of his life he guided visitors through the cave, showing them how to stoop, bend, and crawl through passageways that were sometimes far from the traditional tour route. Based on the narratives of those who toured the cave with him, Journey to the Bottomless Pit is the first book for young readers ever written about Stephen Bishop. New to this edition: A free teacher’s guide to this book, as well as an interview with current-day Mammoth Cave guide Jerry Bransford, great-great-grandson of Stephen Bishop’s fellow guide, Mat Bransford.

Download or read book The Cloud Revolution written by Mark P. Mills and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong. Mark Mills lays out a radically different and optimistic vision for what’s really coming. The mainstream forecasts fall into three camps. One considers today as the “new normal,” where ordering a ride or food on a smartphone or trading in bitcoins is as good as it’s going to get. Another foresees a dystopian era of widespread, digitally driven job- and business-destruction. A third believes that the only technological revolution that matters will be found with renewable energy and electric cars. But according to Mills, a convergence of technologies will instead drive an economic boom over the coming decade, one that historians will characterize as the “Roaring 2020s.” It will come not from any single big invention, but from the confluence of radical advances in three primary technology domains: microprocessors, materials, and machines. Microprocessors are increasingly embedded in everything. Materials, from which everything is built, are emerging with novel, almost magical capabilities. And machines, which make and move all manner of stuff, are undergoing a complementary transformation. Accelerating and enabling all of this is the Cloud, history’s biggest infrastructure, which is itself based on the building blocks of next-generation microprocessors and artificial intelligence. We’ve seen this pattern before. The technological revolution that drove the great economic expansion of the twentieth century can be traced to a similar confluence, one that was first visible in the 1920s: a new information infrastructure (telephony), new machines (cars and power plants), and new materials (plastics and pharmaceuticals). Single inventions don’t drive great, long-cycle booms. It always takes convergent revolutions in technology’s three core spheres—information, materials, and machines. Over history, that’s only happened a few times. We have wrung much magic from the technologies that fueled the last long boom. But the great convergence now underway will ignite the 2020s. And this time, unlike any previous historical epoch, we have the Cloud amplifying everything. The next long boom starts now.

Download or read book The Well Between the Worlds written by Sam Llewellyn and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic tale leads readers on an extraordinary journey into a world of magic and monsters -- a journey fraught with peril at every turn. Can one boy and girl stand in the way of a colossal evil with its roots sunk deep in ages of wickedness?

Download or read book Out of the Bottomless Pit written by S.N. Strutt and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book about the paranormal is well worth the read & is indeed very intriguing. Once you start to read it you can’t put the book down as the topics are so interesting and the documentations are extremely thorough. — From Joseph Candel (Author and writer of current events) Hang on to your hats and get ready for the “read of your life”, as you have your basic suppositions about your existence on earth challenged. This book will definitely “rock your boat” and expand your thinking about future events. — Paul Theo (PhD) (Author, writer & educator) “It was so enthralling that I simply couldn’t put it down”… — Joanna S. (Editor) A compelling and fascinating collaboration of both unusual and unexplainable happenings as well as the sinister plans underlying them. — John B. A “Survivor’s Guide” in a world of confusion. The historical facts & well researched details from varied, informative sources challenge our basic assumptions about the truths that we think we know. — Allan Trenholm (Author of Journey to Tricon) This Book about the paranormal is well worth the read & is indeed very intriguing. Once you start to read it you can’t put the book down as the topics are so interesting and the documentations are extremely thorough. — From Joseph Candel (Author and writer of current events) Hang on to your hats and get ready for the “read of your life”, as you have your basic suppositions about your existence on earth challenged. This book will definitely “rock your boat” and expand your thinking about future events. — Paul Theo (PhD) (Author, writer & educator) “It was so enthralling that I simply couldn’t put it down”… — Joanna S. (Editor) A compelling and fascinating collaboration of both unusual and unexplainable happenings as well as the sinister plans underlying them. — John B. A “Survivor’s Guide” in a world of confusion. The historical facts & well researched details from varied, informative sources challenge our basic assumptions about the truths that we think we know. — Allan Trenholm (Author of Journey to Tricon)

Download or read book Hard Green written by Peter W Huber and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out the case for Hard Green, a conservative environmental agenda. Modern environmentalism, Peter Huber argues, destroys the environment. Captured as it has been by the Soft Green oligarchy of scientists, regulators, and lawyers, modern environmentalism does not conserve forests, oceans, lakes, and streams - it hastens their destruction. For all its scientific pretension, Soft Green is not green at all. Its effects are the opposites of green. This book lays out the alternative: a return to Yellowstone and the National Forests, the original environmentalism of Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation movement. Chapter by chapter, Hard Green takes on the big issues of environmental discourse from scarcity and pollution to efficiency and waste disposal. This is the Hard Green manifesto: Rediscover TAR. Reaffirm the conservationist ethic. Expose the Soft Green fallacy. Reverse the Soft Green agenda. Save the environment from the environmentalists.