The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World“A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . .” —Wall Street Journal “It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape . . . [I]t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. The Quest is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here.” —The Financial Times This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them. The Quest tells the inside stories, tackles the tough questions, and reveals surprising insights about coal, electricity, and natural gas. He explains how climate change became a great issue and leads readers through the rebirth of renewable energies, energy independence, and the return of the electric car. Epic in scope and never more timely, The Quest vividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future. |
Contents
Breaking the Bargain | 382 |
The Urgency of Fuel Choice | 399 |
The Fuel Mix | 401 |
PART FOUR Climate and Carbon | 421 |
Glacial Change | 423 |
The Age of Discovery | 436 |
Atmospheric CO Levels | 446 |
The Road to Rio | 457 |
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The PetroState | 108 |
Aggregate Disruption | 127 |
War in Iraq | 143 |
The Demand Shock | 161 |
Crude Oil Prices | 186 |
Chinas Rise | 190 |
China in the Fast Lane | 211 |
U S and China | 219 |
PART TWO Securing the Supply | 227 |
Is the World Running Out of Oil? | 229 |
World Liquids Production 19462011 | 242 |
Unconventional | 244 |
The Security of Energy | 266 |
Shifting Sands in the Persian Gulf | 285 |
The Middle East Youth Bulge | 296 |
Gas on Water | 312 |
The Natural Gas Revolution | 327 |
PART THREE The Electric | 345 |
Alternating Currents | 347 |
The Nuclear Cycle | 364 |
Making a Market | 475 |
On the Global Agenda | 493 |
In Search of Consensus | 509 |
PART FIVE | 525 |
Science Experiment | 553 |
Alchemy of Shining Light | 569 |
From Light to Electricity | 572 |
Mystery of Wind | 595 |
Harnessing Wind Power | 607 |
The Fifth FuelEfficiency | 620 |
Closing the Conservation Gap | 632 |
PART | 647 |
Internal Fire | 671 |
The Great Electric Car Experiment | 692 |
The Gap | 715 |
A Great Revolution | 718 |
Acknowledgments | 726 |
Notes | 732 |
Bibliography | 770 |
Index | 785 |
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