For more than a decade, Neil deGrasse Tyson, the world-renowned astrophysicist and host of the popular radio and Emmy-nominated televi...We don't often recognize the humble activity of cooking for the revolutionary cultural adaptation that it is. But humans again took a revolutionary turn in the last two centuries with the systematic burning of fossilized biomass. We furnish the full release of this book in txt, DjVu, PDF, doc, ePub forms. He has taught at Washington State University, Yale University, the Alexander Turnbull Library in New Zealand, and twice at the University of Helsinki as a Fulbright Bicentennial Professor, most recently in 1997–98. With a winning blend of wit and insight, Alfred W. Crosby reveals the fundamental ways in which humans have transformed the world and themselves in their quest for energy. Alfred W. Crosby Jr. (January 15, 1931, Boston, Massachusetts – March 14, 2018, Nantucket Island) was Professor Emeritus of History, Geography, and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University and University of Helsinki. Not to mention the constantly increasing pollution that negatively affects all life forms, arguably human life most of all. Hydroelectric plants produce some, but they rely on the planetary water cycle, which is driven by evaporation and precipitation powered by the sun.Good overview of the various sources of energy humans have tapped throughout history. The science is so accessibly explained that I could recommend this book to someone without a strong background in the natural sciences. He was an inter-disciplinary researcher who combined the fields of history, geography, biology and medicine. The thought of safe and unlimited power with no emissions has to excite anyone who wants to maintain the lifestyle we have become so accustomed to over the last couple centuries.I love books that takes a step back and explains world history with broad strokes, and only dives into the nitty gritty when it's truly necessary, and this book does just that. It is so brief that it's hard not to recommend it because my experience with "big history" books of this ilk is that they are normally gigantic, with a forbidding page count that turns most people off. He said that the study of history also made him a researcher of the future. Muscles got their energy from food. The author includes balanced discussion of each source of energy and suggests ways we might better utilize them going forward through the next few decades.
Hydroelectric plants produceUntil recently, all the energy humans ever used was, ultimately, solar. He wrote several books on this subject, dealing with the history of quantification, of projectile technology, and the history of the use of energy. They are forms of stored solar energy compressed and compacted over many millennia. Unlike most authors, Crosby starts at the beginning (before fire) . So, because I get into it, I should just say: this is easy to read, it's short and you should read it.This is a brief but informative and fascinating history of human use of energy.
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Humans and other animals extract these nutrients from edible plants, and/or from the flesh of plant eating animals.All life requires energy to survive, and our primary source of energy is the sun, a fireball of nuclear fusion. But when the hearth fires started burning in the Paleolithic, humankind broadened the exploitation of food and took one of several great leaps forward.All life on earth is dependent on energy from the sun, but one species has evolved to be especially efficient in tapping that supply. It is so brief that it's hard not to recommend it because my experience with "big history" books of this ilk is that they are normally gigantic, with a forbidding page count that turns most people off. One of the important themes of his work was how epidemics affected the history of mankind.