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Re-Volt! Our Impending Energy Revolution

Jeremy Gorman
Strategic Book Group (2011)
ISBN 9781609767426
Reviewed by Kam Aures for RebeccasReads (05/11)

Within the next thirty years there is going to be an energy revolution.  It will affect you so you may as well be informed.  In the Introduction to “Re-Volt!  Our Impending Energy Revolution,” Jeremy Gorman tells us that, “This book is your survival guide.  It discloses, explores, and explains not only present practices, but also how we got here and what you must do to make the coming change beneficial.  Better still, Re-Volt! invites your ideas and your solutions to the problems we face.  The problem is immense, but there is no problem too big to solve if we all get involved.  Join in.  You will be involved anyhow, so it might as well be by choice and in support of your goals and aims.” (p.v)

Following this invitation to join in, chemist/chemical engineer Gorman takes an in depth look at many different types of energy available to us, including but not limited to wind, solar, nuclear, and geothermal energy.  I think that Gorman’s book is a very timely one and provides the reader with a plethora of information.  I learned an immense amount about different forms of energy and feel so much more educated about the subject matter than I was before I read the book. 

There are so many sources of underutilized and untapped energy in this world and it is time to turn our focus toward them.  As Gorman states, “Oil and coal dominate our energy sources because they are easy to use and because we have already developed the technology to use them.  They have been cost effective.  But they are both finite resources that are being used up.”  (p.129)  It is past time to take a look at the alternatives and Gorman’s book lays many options out for us in a straight-forward and insightful manner.  I recommend “Re-Volt!  Our Impending Energy Revolution” to anyone who wants to educate themselves about the subject matter and to be an informed participant in the imminent energy revolution.    

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