The Energy Primer for Kids: With a Primer for Grown-Ups

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This informative and important book encourages young people to bring critical thinking and criteria to the subject of questionable new energy technologies, and our need to address their viability. Proposed solutions such as electric cars, solar and wind power, biologically produced combustibles, renewable fuels and hydrogen are presented and shown to be lacking true economic potential. Youth, and their parents, are invited to sift through the deluge of information intelligently to make informed energy policy decisions as citizens and voters. This is a unique book where the author arms children and grownups alike with simple, rational, and science-based facts that will let them make their own decisions and form independent opinions about the controversial issue of energy reserves, its generation and consumption now and in the future. - Dr. Jack Dvorkin, Senior Research Fellow, Stanford University Thanks to energy, we live longer and more comfortable lives. Unfortunately, there are those who would make energy more costly and even ration it - in the mistaken belief that this would avert an imagined climate disaster. I have no doubt that the world will overcome this mistaken notion, but in the meantime it will cause much economic harm. Nuclear energy, in one form or other, will sustain our civilization indefinitely - if we can overcome the opposition, which is based on unreasonable fears. - From the Foreword, by Professor S. Fred Singer, Director and Founder of Science & Environmental Policy Project Arlington, Virginia Vladislav Bevc, Ph.D. is a professional engineer, physicist and writer who lives in the San Francisco Bay area and Lake Tahoe, currently working on "The Energy Primer for Everyone, " which shows how people can readily evaluate energy issues by themselves. Illustration by Hotimir Gorazd, architect and cartoonist. Publisher's website: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/TheEnergyPrimerForKids.html