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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PROLOGUE | CONTENTS | RESOURCES | PHOTOS | QUIZ | E21NS

And now … for a bit of fun with energy: My top 10 energy songs. A list of 50+ songs follows on numerous energy topics, from coal mining disasters and the sun to the mysteries of the atom and E = mc2. Let me know your favourite energy song(s) or what I have missed. All have Youtube links. Happy listening! (See also my Top 50 Energy Movies.)

The Truth About Energy

50 ENERGY SONGS (with Youtube links)

SONG LINKS

The Beatles Norwegian Wood

The Beatles Here Comes the Sun

Beck The New Pollution

The Bee Gees New York Mining Disaster 1941

Big Audio Dynamite E = mc2

Billy Bragg Which Side are You On?

Blondie Atomic

Kate Bush Cloudbursting

Captain Beefheart Electricity

Johnny Cash The Strangest Dream

The Clash Rock the Casbah

Hugh Cornwell Rain On The River

China Crisis Working with Fire and Steel

Creedence Clearwater Revival Proud Mary

Peter Maxwell Davies Farewell to Stromness

The Doors Ship of Fools

Lee Dorsey Working in a Coal Mine

Donald Fagen I.G.Y. (International Geology Year)

Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach

Jenn Grant The Strangest Dream (at end of film credits)

Golden Earring Radar Love

Woody Guthrie Grand Coulee Dam

Hair! (Radno and Ragni) Let the Sun Shine In

Gil-Scott Heron The Revolution will not be Televised

The Jam Going Underground

The Kinks Village Preservation Society

The Kinks Last of the Steam Powered Trains

The Kinks A Gallon of Gas

Kraftwerk Radio-Activity

Loretta Lynn Coalminer’s Daughter

Max Webster Gravity

Midnight Oil Beds are Burning

Joni Mitchell Carey

Joni Mitchell Chinese Cafe

Moby We’re all Made of Stars

Modern English I Melt with You

Nash the Slash Dead Man’s Curve (Jan and Dean cover)

Randy Newman Burn On

OMD Electricity

OMD Enola Gay

Pink Floyd Welcome to the Machine

The Pogues (Ewan MacColl) Dirty Old Town

The Police Canary in a Coal Mine

John Prine Paradise (strip mining in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky)

Prince & The New Power Generation Money Don’t Matter 2night

Prince 1999

Queen I'’m in Love with my Car

Cat Stevens Where Do the Children Play?

Spirit Nature's Way

The Stranglers Always the Sun

Talking Heads Don’t Worry about the Government

Talking Heads Air

Talking Heads Burning Down the House

Thunderclap Newman Something in the Air

The Tornados Telstar

The Tramps (The night the lights went out in) New York City

War Low Rider

Neil Young After the Goldrush

Neil Young Broken Arrow

Anything by Earth, Wind, and Fire (Thanks Terri!)

 


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.



   John K White