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When Trucks Stop Running
Alice J. Friedemann
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Description for When Trucks Stop Running
Paperback. Series: SpringerBriefs in Energy. Num Pages: 147 pages, 14 colour illustrations, 20 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: RNFY; THRB; TRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 238.
In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices of oil. Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone of civilization, hauling the goods that fulfill our every need and desire. Their powerful, highly-efficient diesel combustion engines are exquisitely fine-tuned to burn petroleum-based diesel fuel. These engines and the fuels that fire them have been among the most transformative yet disruptive technologies on the planet. Although this transportation revolution has allowed many of us to fill our homes with global goods even a past emperor would envy, our ... Read more
In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices of oil. Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone of civilization, hauling the goods that fulfill our every need and desire. Their powerful, highly-efficient diesel combustion engines are exquisitely fine-tuned to burn petroleum-based diesel fuel. These engines and the fuels that fire them have been among the most transformative yet disruptive technologies on the planet. Although this transportation revolution has allowed many of us to fill our homes with global goods even a past emperor would envy, our ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
147
Condition
New
Series
SpringerBriefs in Energy
Number of Pages
132
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319263731
SKU
V9783319263731
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Alice J. Friedemann
A.J. Friedemann is the creator of http://energyskeptic.com/. Ms. Friedemann is perhaps best known for "Peak Soil", which David Pimentel at Cornell, Tad Patzek at U.C. Berkeley, and Walter Youngquist (author of "Geodestinies") edited.
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