The Truth About Energy: Our fossil-fuel addiction and the transition to renewables

John K. White
Softcover, 720 pages, Cambridge University Press (2024)

We are at the beginning of a revolution, as profound as the IT revolution and the advent of the microchip in the 1960s. The ET or Energy Technology revolution isn't advancing as fast or as easily, however, with an entrenched carbon economy still at the forefront of everyday use, led by an old-world, fossil-fuel industry, despite decreasing oil supplies and the increasing consequences of harmful emissions. Institutional change comes slowly. Revolutions are disruptive. They change everything.

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About the author Dr. John K. White is a physicist, writer, and educator, who has worked in the engineering, science, and education fields in Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Spain. He has written numerous articles, technical documents, and manuals and taught courses in physics, computing, and science education over a 35-year career in industry, government, and academia. He is the author of Do the Math! On Growth, Greed, and Strategic Thinking, which promotes better numeracy through everyday examples, and has written for CounterPunch, the Irish Times, and the Journal of Physics. He is a former lecturer in the School of Physics, University College Dublin, and Department of Education Sciences at the University of Oviedo.


The Truth About Energy: Our fossil-fuel addiction and the transition to renewables

John K. White
Softcover, 720 pages, Cambridge University Press (2024)

We are at the beginning of a revolution, as profound as the IT revolution and the advent of the microchip in the 1960s. The ET or Energy Technology revolution isn't advancing as fast or as easily, however, with an entrenched carbon economy still at the forefront of everyday use, led by an old-world, fossil-fuel industry, despite decreasing oil supplies and the increasing consequences of harmful emissions. Institutional change comes slowly. Revolutions are disruptive. They change everything.



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