Energy Books

The Green New Deal and Beyond
by Stan Cox
The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
by Thane Gustafson
Review
Insane Mode
by Hamish McKenzie
Review
Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator
by Gregory B. Jaczko
Review
Blowout
by Rachel Maddow
Review
Coal and Empire: The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America
by Peter A. Shulman
Review
Principles of Solar Cells, LEDs and Related Devices: The Role of the PN Junction
by Adrian Kitai
Review
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
by Adam Higginbotham
Review
Chasing the Sun: The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds
by Linda Geddes
Review
Power Trip: The Story of Energy
by Michael E. Webber
Review
Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga
by Laura Watts
Review
Manual for Survival
by Kate Brown
Review
Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption
by Simon Pirani
Review
Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century
by Bruce Usher
Review
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
by Eliza Griswold
Review
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by Gretchen Bakke
Review
Energy: A Human History
by Professor Richard Rhodes, Richard Rhodes
Review
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World
by Charles C Mann
Review
The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution (Center on Global Energy Policy Series)
by Daniel Raimi
Review
Energy and Civilization: A History
by Vaclav Smil
Review
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
by David N. Schwartz
Review
Man of the Hour
by Jennet Conant
Review
Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary (Posthumanities)
by Karen Pinkus
Review
Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos
by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
Review
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
by Brian Merchant
Review
Faster, Higher, Farther: The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal
by Jack Ewing
Review
15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun
by Lucie Green
Review
Fuel Cells
by Paul Breeze
Review
The Switch: How solar, storage and new tech means cheap power for all
by Chris Goodall
Review
Science Calling: Climate, Environment, Energy: (there is hope)
by Vladimir Panjkovic
Review
Advanced Functional Materials (Advanced Material Series)
by Ashutosh Tiwari, Lokman Uzun
Review
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
by Nick Lane
Review
Harness the Sun: America’s Quest for a Solar-Powered Future
by Philip Warburg
Review
The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power
by Keith Barnham
Review
Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet
by Richard Martin
Review
Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming
by David M. Konisky, Stephen Ansolabehere
Review
Energy Revolution: The Physics and the Promise of Efficient Technology
by Mara Prentiss
Review
The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
by Steve LeVine
Review
Organic Photovoltaics: Materials, Device Physics, and Manufacturing Technologies
by Christoph Brabec, Ullrich Scherf, Vladimir Dyakonov
Review
Chemistry of Sustainable Energy
by Nancy E. Carpenter
Review
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch
by Lewis Dartnell
Review
The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
by Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald
Review
Nuclear Dawn: F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II
by Kenneth D. McRae
Review
The Burning Question: We Can’t Burn Half the World’s Oil, Coal, and Gas. So How Do We Quit?
by Mike Berners-Lee
Review
Oil in the Environment: Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
by John A. Wiens
Review
Sun Power: How Energy from the Sun Is Changing Lives Around the World, Empowering America, and Saving the Planet
by Neville Williams
Review
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
by Russell Gold
Review
Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
by Craig Nelson
Review
Atomic Accidents – A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: from the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
by James Mahaffey
Review
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
by David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, and Susan Q. Stranahan
Review
Nanotechnology for the Energy Challenge
by Javier García-Martínez
Review
Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale
by Tom Wilber
Review
Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy
by Jeremy Shere
Review
The Biobased Economy: Biofuels, Materials and Chemicals in the Post-oil Era
by Hans Langeveld, Johan Sanders, and Marieke Meeusen
Illumination Engineering: Design with Nonimaging Optics
by R. John Koshel
Review
The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
by Ramez Naam
Review
Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste
by William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley
Review
Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future
by Richard Heinberg
Review
Carfree Cities
by J.H. Crawford
Review
Probabilistic Safety Assessment for Optimum Nuclear Power Plant Life Management
by Gennadij V. Arkadov, Alexander F. Getman, and Andrei N. Rodionov
Review
Fuel Cells: Current Technology Challenges and Future Research Needs
by Noriko Hikosaka Behling
Review
An Introduction to Radiation Protection 6E
by Alan Martin, Sam Harbison, Karen Beach and Peter Cole
Review
A Piece of the Sun: The Quest for Fusion Energy
by Daniel Clery
Review
Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
by Richard A Muller
Review
Project Sunshine: How Science Can Use the Sun to Fuel and Feed the World
by Steve McKevitt and Tony Ryan
Review
Power Grid Complexity
by Shengwei Mei, Xuemin Zhang, and Ming Cao
Review
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
by W. Bernard Carlson
Review
Nuclear and Radiochemistry
by József Kónya and Noémi M Nagy
Review
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
by Nicholas Carr
Review
Recommended Practice for Corrosion Management of Pipelines in Oil & Gas Production and Transportation
by Bijan Kermani
The Power of Design: Product Innovation in Sustainable Energy Technologies
by Angele Reinders, Jan Carel Diehl, and Han Brezet
Review

Articles

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The electric vehicle revolution: Cornwall tries to revive its lithium mines
Aluminium–nitrogen batteries offer alternative ammonia synthesis
Solar Closing in on “Practical” Hydrogen Production
Emrod Chases The Dream Of Utility-Scale Wireless Power Transmission
New study discovers why ‘nickel-rich’ battery materials suffer from fatigue
Hydrogen vehicles could become mass market thanks to new catalyst
New zinc batteries can serve as power storage and exterior shell for robots
Minuscule RoBeetle Turns Liquid Methanol Into Muscle Power
Energy-storing walls made from ordinary red bricks
Levitating ring flame’s burning secrets revealed
Spanish to make fertilizer from green hydrogen
3-D printed material purifies biogas at low cost
Physicists create quantum phase battery
World’s largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly in France
Battery Breakthrough Gives Boost to Electric Flight and Long-Range EVs
New spin brings rapid rescue from oil spills
Why NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Uses Nuclear Energy
Ministers challenged on future of UK nuclear energy
The Nuclear Battery Aboard Perseverance, the Next-Gen Mars Rover
Transparent Graphene Electrodes Might Lead to New Generation of Solar Cells
New protocols identify solar cell failures during production
Executive Order Shines a Light on Cyberattack Threat to the Power Grid
Solar-flow battery to capture, store solar energy at record efficiency
New cobalt-free lithium-ion battery reduces costs without sacrificing performance
Reducing radioactive waste in processes to dismantle nuclear facilities
Micro-patterned perovskite solar cells trap light better
Risk Dashboard Could Help the Power Grid Manage Renewables
Beetle-inspired film reflects 95% of solar radiation
Fluorine helps produce stable electrolyte for lithium-metal batteries
Ten Years in the Life of the Sun, Up Close and Personal
The Software-Defined Power Grid Is Here
Six-Junction Solar Cell Sets Record for Conversion Efficiency
Paddlewheel effect could boost solid-state batteries
Wind turbine sounds do not harm health: study
Hollow structures spontaneously let batteries store more energy
Novel material outperforms standard catalysts in zinc-air batteries
Used EV Batteries Could Power Tomorrow’s Solar Farms
Sodium-ion breakthrough could lower environmental impact of batteries
Spherical Solar Cells Soak Up Scattered Sunlight
Battery components recycled into fertilizer
Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming
Parents call for virtual school for Scottish pupils
Used EV batteries for large scale solar energy storage
Wrapping solar cells in glass-polymer coating protects against heat and moisture
New battery electrode knitted together from silicon microspheres
Organic Proton Battery can be Charged in Seconds