01560nam a22002297a 4500 20211231100632.0 211231b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d AL eng 23 622.1828 GOOO David Goodstein 12159 Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil New York: W W Norton & Company, 2004. 140 p. HB 21x14 cm. 21.95 £ 21.95 Our rate of oil discovery has reached its peak and will never be exceeded; rather, it is certain to decline—perhaps rapidly—forever forward. Meanwhile, over the past century, we have developed lifestyles firmly rooted in the promise of an endless, cheap supply. In this book, David Goodstein, professor of physics at Caltech, explains the underlying scientific principles of the inevitable fossil fuel shortage we face. He outlines the drastic effects a fossil fuel shortage will bring down on us. And he shows that there is an important silver lining to the need to switch to other sources of energy, for when we have burned up all the available oil, the earth's climate will have moved toward a truly life-threatening state. With its easy-to-grasp explanations of the science behind every aspect of our most urgent environmental policy decisions, Out of Gas is a handbook for the future of civilization. Petroleum Reserves 12155 Petroleum Industry and Trade 12156 Mining Engineering 12157 GOODSTEIN (David) 12158 ddc GF 221029 221029 0 0 ddc 0 0 ELE AL AL 2013-03-24 0 622.1828 GOOO GF03649 2021-12-31 00:00:00 2021-12-31 GF