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E-book The Birth of Energy : Fossil fuels, Thermodynamics and the Politics of Work

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Intensive energy consumption is necessary to the good life. At least that is ExxonMobil’s outlook for energy in their “View to 2040,” quoted above. As global warming becomes more difficult to ignore, oil and gas titans increasingly want to brand themselves as energy companies that supply much-needed power to the people, rather than as fossil fuel extractors. Oil, gas, and coal have become the villains on a warming planet, but who could be against energy?Oil corporations are not alone in their devotion to energy. Energy seems to invite grand thinking. After all, energy could be said to nourish life itself, its production and reproduction, and all activity—“everything in the universe may be described in terms of energy,” including living or-ganisms and human civilizations, anthropologist Leslie White proclaimed in 1943.1 Energy’s meaning is capacious: it is provided by coal, oil, wind; it is a scientific entity; a metaphor; an indicator of vigor, tinged with virtue. Energy feels trans-historic and cosmic, but it is also material: it pumps through pipelines, sloshes in gas tanks, and spins wind turbines. Most importantly, energy has a foundational status in modern physics: it is the quest to understand change in the cosmos.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

333.7 DAG t

Penerbit

Durham : Duke University Press., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

281 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781478005346

Klasifikasi

333.7

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text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Natural Resources and Energy, Environment/

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