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This sounds very important, but somehow very scarcely known. Could you point to some sources about this?
by pas 7y ago
This sounds very important, but somehow very scarcely known. Could you point to some sources about this?
- dredmorbius 7y agoDespite being very much an apologist for and champion of the oil industry, Daniel Yergin's The Prize is outstanding. Vaclav Smil's Energy and Civilization and books on energy transitions gives a mostly energy-physics and technological bacground on the coal-oil transition (and ag-coal previously). Manfred Weissenbacher's Sources of Power adds in some of the political dimension.