История энергетики

The MIT Press, 2015 — 318 p — ISBN 9780262029148,0262029146 The first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, and all common energy uses. «There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.» —Bill Gates In this book, Vaclav Smil argues that power density is a...

2d ed.— Oneworld Publications, 2017 — 224 p. — (Oneworld Beginner’s Guides) — ISBN 9781786072863, 9781786072870, 1786072866. Without oil, there would be no globalisation, no plastic, little transport, and a global political landscape that few would recognise. In this captivating book Vaclav Smil explains all matters related to the «black stuff», from its discovery in the earth,...

Columbia University Press, 2019. — 224 p. After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain—went from being among the world's poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs provide their subjects with boundless cheap energy,...

Princeton University Press, 2014. - 472 p. - (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling...