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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
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