This book is concerned with the production of energy that we all need in order to sustain our living standards without, at the same time, harming the environment that makes life possible and worth living. There is enough coal for the next hundreds of years, and the sun pours onto the earth far more energy than we could ever need. The problem is to make it available in usable form without devastating the Earth. To tackle this problem, we have to consider all possible ways of obtaining energy and then see how they affect the environment. We have to take into consideration their capacities, their costs, their.
