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The world is facing two immense and intimately linked challenges: we must move away from fossil fuels, and revive the global economy at the same time. If we continue our highly inefficient, dangerous energy usage, we're headed straight for both economic and environmental catastrophe. However, the hard truth is that alternative fuels can't fully replace fossil fuels for several decades. What's more, new research indicates that energy inefficiencies are retarding economic growth even more than most experts ever realized. Crossing the Energy Divideis about solving all these problems at once. Robert Ayres, a leading expert in energy and environmental economics, shows how massive improvements in energy efficiency can bridge the global economy until the time that clean renewables can fully take over. The authors demonstrate how we can radically reform the way we manage our existing energy systems to double the amount of "energy service" we get from every drop of fossil fuel we use. These techniques don't require scientific breakthroughs: thousands of companies and institutions are using them right now. What's needed is a real energy management strategy: one that sweeps away ideological blind-spots, structural barriers, bad habits, and outmoded laws. The result will be lower carbon emissions, greater energy security, more jobs, and faster economic growth and this book offers a complete roadmap to get us there.
Contents
About the Authors xi
Introduction The Chasm to Be Crossed 1
Chapter 1 An American Awakening 9
Chapter 2 Recapturing Lost Energy 31
Chapter 3 Engineering an Economic Bridge 45
Chapter 4 The Invisible-Energy Revolution 59
Chapter 5 The Future of Electric Power 79
Chapter 6 Liquid Fuels: The Hard Reality 101
Chapter 7 Vehicles: The End of the Affair 113
Chapter 8 Preparing Cities for the Perfect Storm 125
Chapter 9 The Water-Energy Connection 145
Chapter 10 Policy Priorities 157
Chapter 11 Implications for Business Management 181
Chapter 12 How Much, How Fast? 191
Comments and References 203
Index 227
