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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 432
Utgivningsdatum: 2016-04-19
Utmärkelser: Short-listed for PEN Center USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction 2017
Förlag: WW Norton & Co
Illustratör/Fotograf: illustrations
Illustrationer: illustrations
Dimensioner: 236 x 157 x 38 mm
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ISBN: 9780393239683

The Oracle of Oil

Name: The Oracle of Oil
Price: 325.00 SEK
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Author: Mason Inman
ISBN: 9780393239683

A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future

av Mason Inman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016-04-19

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In 1956, geophysicist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert forecast that American oil production would peak surprisingly soon and decline steadily thereafter. Hubbert's prediction outraged the architects of the US oil industry at the time but it was largely correct. Amid a twenty-first century shale boom, Hubbert's logic remains a source of debate. Richly researched, The Oracle of Oil rescues the history of a man who shocked the scientific community with his brilliance, eccentricity and controversy. Mason Inman shows Hubbert was a man of his era: a time of great intellectual ferment and discovery tinged by dark undercurrents of intellectual witch hunts. A portrait of a man whose prescient ideas about sustainability still resonate today, The Oracle of Oil looks to the past to find a guiding philosophy for our energy future.

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"... well written, deeply researched and rich in anecdote - Hubbert's character and his intellectual achievements sing out." -- New Scientist

Mason Inman is an award-winning journalist who focuses on energy and climate issues. He has written for National Geographic News, Science, Nature, and The Economist, and has reported from Bangladesh and Pakistan. He lives in Oakland, California.