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Apollo's Fire : Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy by Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Congressman Inslee is a full-time elected representative with a background in economics and law, so we expect a book written by him to emphasize economics and public policy, and to be weak on science. Still, he could have sought out help on science. His book merely supports popular solutions to the climate-change problem and disdains unpopular ones, and he never checks the data. For example, he proposes to replace gasoline with cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass. He points to publications that promise salubrious results and doesn't mention that cellulosic ethanol has never been shown to be practical. He's sure that compressed air could store enough energy to make part-time energy sources like wind and solar practical, but he never took the trouble to see how much air volume would be required--if he did he'd realize that no such scheme could ever work. He quotes a promoter of algal biofuels saying 650 gallons of biofuel per acre per year would offset the US's oil imports with only 0.1% of its land area. A pocket calculator shows it would take over 13%, compared with 18% that's arable. In contrast, he agonizes over nuclear energy. He's aware of its importance in slowin

Who reads Apollo's Fire : Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy?

Author

Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks

Publisher

Island Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781597263801

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Management

Rating

3.51 / 5 (61 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14