Fire: The Story of Humanity & the Story of our Earth as Written by Flames
by Brendan Long | 4 Jun 2021
If you are looking for a book covering mankind’s use of energy, from its discovery to the present day. This short paperback of no more than 142 pages will provide you with an especially useful background briefing about the impact that energy has had on humanities evolution, usage, together with developments and impact on the world’s economy, environment, technologies, and future. Indeed, it should be read by every policy maker, energy investor, and student involved or interested the energy business today.
One thing is certain, as reader you will find this book a much more insightful, interesting, and useful than Bill Gates recent published book in February 2021, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need.
What this book is about
This book breaks up mankind’s evolutionary relationship with energy into the ages of fire, coal, oil, and the new age of transition post fossil fuel age that we are pioneering today. Together with especially useful insights into how the world is coping with climate change since 2016.
As for specific points, it describes how the first fires occurred on earth including the incidents of lightning caused by turbulent air movements within clouds that mix liquids and frozen water in such a way that it creates an electric charge, if the charge becomes big enough, it creates the resistance of the atmosphere, and an electrical charge occurs between the cloud and the Earth. However, such electrical discharges are not unique to planet Earth as scientists have detected such electrical discharges caused in a variety of ways on such planets as Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.
I also find this book informative about the holistic approach the writer has taken about the issues, technologies and impacts that mankind’s usage and development of energy has had. It provides a good briefing on various power generation technologies such as hydro power, nuclear, wind, solar, electrical batteries, and hydrogen.
Although on the well-made points about energy storage, I appreciate the expertise shown about lithium batteries technologies, but am disappointed that so little coverage was shown about other types of energy storage technologies, such as batteries that are not lithium based. Nor cover adequately that different types of energy storage technologies are suitable for different markets, such as base load, peaking and long-term storage. For instance, the usage of molten salt, pumped storage hydro and even hydrogen etc.
As for its coverage about various geopolitical implications of energy, Brendon Long could have pointed out that European dependence on Russian energy, minerals and resources exports is not a one-way street. In fact, you could argue that Russia is an economic colony of Europe. So, Putin does not have such a free hand as the media suggests. Since European sanctions are hurting the Russian economy. Although Brendon Long could have provided more strategic policy insight into why Europe’ has invested so much into renewables, energy efficiency and insulation as part of its strategic efforts to reduce its energy resources reliance on both the US and Russia.
Though I especially appreciated the coverage about the issues faced as the world moves away from the fossil fuel age.
It is certainly worth buying.
This book is certainly well worth buying, it is now available in printed and kindle formats, although I look forward to it being in available in audiobook format soon. As it is a well-researched book packed with extremely useful insights not only on the energy business, but the economy, environment and impact on mankind’s prosperity and fight against poverty and hunger.
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- nicnewmanReviewed in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2021
You will find this book insightful, interesting, and useful
Fire: The Story of Humanity & the Story of our Earth as Written by FlamesnicnewmanYou will find this book insightful, interesting, and useful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2021
by Brendan Long | 4 Jun 2021
If you are looking for a book covering mankind’s use of energy, from its discovery to the present day. This short paperback of no more than 142 pages will provide you with an especially useful background briefing about the impact that energy has had on humanities evolution, usage, together with developments and impact on the world’s economy, environment, technologies, and future. Indeed, it should be read by every policy maker, energy investor, and student involved or interested the energy business today.
One thing is certain, as reader you will find this book a much more insightful, interesting, and useful than Bill Gates recent published book in February 2021, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need.
What this book is about
This book breaks up mankind’s evolutionary relationship with energy into the ages of fire, coal, oil, and the new age of transition post fossil fuel age that we are pioneering today. Together with especially useful insights into how the world is coping with climate change since 2016.
As for specific points, it describes how the first fires occurred on earth including the incidents of lightning caused by turbulent air movements within clouds that mix liquids and frozen water in such a way that it creates an electric charge, if the charge becomes big enough, it creates the resistance of the atmosphere, and an electrical charge occurs between the cloud and the Earth. However, such electrical discharges are not unique to planet Earth as scientists have detected such electrical discharges caused in a variety of ways on such planets as Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.
I also find this book informative about the holistic approach the writer has taken about the issues, technologies and impacts that mankind’s usage and development of energy has had. It provides a good briefing on various power generation technologies such as hydro power, nuclear, wind, solar, electrical batteries, and hydrogen.
Although on the well-made points about energy storage, I appreciate the expertise shown about lithium batteries technologies, but am disappointed that so little coverage was shown about other types of energy storage technologies, such as batteries that are not lithium based. Nor cover adequately that different types of energy storage technologies are suitable for different markets, such as base load, peaking and long-term storage. For instance, the usage of molten salt, pumped storage hydro and even hydrogen etc.
As for its coverage about various geopolitical implications of energy, Brendon Long could have pointed out that European dependence on Russian energy, minerals and resources exports is not a one-way street. In fact, you could argue that Russia is an economic colony of Europe. So, Putin does not have such a free hand as the media suggests. Since European sanctions are hurting the Russian economy. Although Brendon Long could have provided more strategic policy insight into why Europe’ has invested so much into renewables, energy efficiency and insulation as part of its strategic efforts to reduce its energy resources reliance on both the US and Russia.
Though I especially appreciated the coverage about the issues faced as the world moves away from the fossil fuel age.
It is certainly worth buying.
This book is certainly well worth buying, it is now available in printed and kindle formats, although I look forward to it being in available in audiobook format soon. As it is a well-researched book packed with extremely useful insights not only on the energy business, but the economy, environment and impact on mankind’s prosperity and fight against poverty and hunger.
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- KatogoldReviewed in the United Kingdom on December 18, 2021
Fantastic book and Gift!
- Tony YumReviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2021
Very interesting insight into the topic of fire
- Anonymous UserReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 8, 2021
Crisp and concise book on a very important topic
