Smelling Land: The Hydrogen Defense Against Climate Catastrophe Book

Preface     7
Contents     9
Smelling Land
A Cabin Boy's Legacy     15
Charting the Course: Toward a Cleaner, Richer Hydrogen Age     17
Civilization's Energy System
Turning out the Lights     31
A Concept: Energy Currencies     37
Currencies: The Key to Systemic Liberty     45
The Energy System and Its Five-Link Architecture     53
Whales and Whiskey Barrels     65
The Gods of Energy Planning Foolishness     75
Intermezzo
Mozart, Metaphor and Math     85
Understanding Environmental Intrusion
From Oil Lamps to Light Bulbs: Pathways to Environmental Gentility     95
Tidal Flats and Airports: Quantifying Environmental Intrusion     103
Metastability: When You Can't Go Home Again     111
Bubble, Bubble, Signs of Trouble     121
Controversy, Conveyors and Consequences     137
Sustainability and the Coming Hydrogen Age
Template for Sustainability     153
The Tyranny of Surprise     165
Hydrogen: The Case for Inevitability     171
For Better or Worse     177
Can Something Better Come Along?     183
Earth's Energy System
Afternoon on a Hillside     191
Conservation, Confusionand Language     195
Entropy and Living Planets     207
It's Exergy!     223
Exergy Takes Us beyond the Lamppost     237
A Whiff of Earth from Afar     249
Intermezzo
From Steam Engines to Symphonies     257
Harvesting Exergy Sources
The Great Enemy of Truth     269
Fossil Sources: A Lot Will Be Left in the Ground     273
Renewables and Conventional Wishdom     287
Fissile Sources: 'Running out' Won't Be a Problem     305
'You've Got to Be Carefully Taught': Know Nukes     313
Working with Hydrogen
Harvesting Hydrogen     333
But Doesn't Hydrogen Explode?     341
Tethers and Transition Tactics     349
OK! Now Tell Me About Cost     359
We Never Know Everything, But     369
Service Technologies
Chasing Locomotives     377
Fuelcells: Chip of the Future     385
Hydrogen on Board     397
Contrails against an Azure Sky     405
On Where We Are and Where We Should Go From Here
Arrows on the Wall     425
A Round Trip to the Deep Future     429
Nineteenth-Century Prescience     445
Our Sliver of Time     447
Appendices
About Names, Numbers and Units     455
More Learning the Ropes     459
Appreciations     469
References     471
Index     475