Michael Webber's latest Power Trip: The Story of Energy has been reviewed at the Wall Street Journal.❝ Nothing sets us humans off from other animals more than that we routinely employ energy that is not generated by our own bodies. It’s an old story. More than a million years ago, humans began using fire to cook food and protect against predators. Today energy from a vast array of sources pervades modern society, prompting feelings of guilt, it seems, more than triumph. But energy makes civilization possible, as Michael E. Webber, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas, shows in “Power Trip.” The more energy in circulation, the more complex—and wealthy—a civilization becomes … [WSJ.com]
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