Energy History

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    • A History
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization and offers listeners a magisterial overview of humanity's energy eras....

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    • Keys to Understanding Our Hidden Past, Emerging Energy Age and Enlightened Future
    • By: Joseph Selbie, David Steinmetz, Swami Kriyananda - foreword
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Today's view of history cannot account for ancient anomalies, such as the Pyramids and advanced knowledge contained in India's Vedas. But in 1894, an Indian sage gave us an explanation not only for our hidden past but for the trends of today and for our future enlightenment....

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    • How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
    • By: George M. Church, Ed Regis
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life....

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    • A Human History
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
    • By: Ed Conway
    • Narrated by: Ed Conway
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • See the history of human civilization from a new perspective - our ambitions and glory, innovations and appetites - literally from the ground up....

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    • Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
    • By: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: Matt Ridley
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. It is innovation that will shape the 21st century....

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    • By: Nikola Tesla
    • Narrated by: David Van Der Molen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Where does human energy come from, and where is it going? In this fascinating text, notable inventor Nikola Tesla examines these fundamental questions as he theorizes ways of maximizing human energy....

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    • Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
    • By: Leah Cardamore Stokes
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development Series
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2020
    • Language: English
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    • In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas....

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

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    • A Little Book on Thermodynamics
    • By: R. Stephen Berry
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain accessibly an important but subtle scientific theory....

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    • By: Nikola Tesla
    • Narrated by: Ryan Jarvis
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-2017
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Written in 1900 by Nikola Tesla, this book gives great ideas on automation, agriculture, energy, and increasing human output to improve the human condition....

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    • The Healing Power of Dark Matter
    • By: Yury Kronn, Jurriaan Kamp - contributor, Bruce Lipton - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Instruments of modern physics can measure the energies of the electromagnetic spectrum, but these energies only account for roughly 4 percent of the total identifiable mass-energy of the universe. Yury Kronn explores the nature of the remaining 96% of the universe’s mass-energies....

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    • The Story of Energy
    • By: Michael E. Webber
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A global tour of energy - the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat....

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    • Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
    • By: Robert Bryce
    • Narrated by: Robert Bryce
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Historically, it was guns, germs, and steel that determined the fates of people and nations. Now, more than ever, it is electricity....

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    • A Culturally Tailored Guide to Lose Fat, Increase Energy, and Avoid Disease
    • By: Ronesh Sinha MD
    • Narrated by: Ronesh Sinha MD
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-2014
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This is the first book to provide an ancestral health-based wellness plan culturally tailored for South Asians....

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    • A Theological Exploration of Human Time, Energy and Bitcoin
    • By: Alin Armstrong
    • Narrated by: Alin Armstrong
    • Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Our current monetary system is broken. Inflation is rampant, our savings are being devalued, and it seems there is no hope for a solution. Fiat money is robbing us and our neighbors of our most valuable commodity - time....

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    • High-Stakes Mining in a Lowlands Wilderness
    • By: Virginia Heffernan
    • Narrated by: Nikki Zakocs
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-2023
    • Language: English
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    • A valuable discovery under the world's second-largest temperate wetland and in the traditional lands of the Cree and Ojibway casts light on the growing conflict among resource development, environmental stewardship, and Indigenous rights....

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    • Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower
    • By: Charlie Angus
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 13-12-2022
    • Language: English
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    • The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this "demon metal" has a horrific present and a troubled history....

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