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Between the Front & Back: Grundle’s Book Club

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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    A worthy addendum to all this that Youtube's algos (I like to call algorithms "algos." I like to call them that) served up to me. Illinois Energy Prof. All sorts of good shit.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTA-M12vrT4
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPp25S_2an0
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F92L6F0INYk
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gtog_gOaGQ

    Even something for OBK
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R79jwn_xg8
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter



    Full disclosure, I have never conducted nor participated in book club. But at HardcoreHusky, expertise is a disqualification.

    I cheated a little and started this last week. It's completely my wheelhouse, big picture stuff somewhere between the Tug and @creepycoug shitty little bored, knowledge of which helps me not at all in daily life. Call it intellectual onanism.

    The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Daniel Yergin, 2020)


    Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future

    The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations in a time of global crisis. The shale revolution in oil and gas--made possible by fracking technology, but not without controversy--has transformed the American economy, ending the era of shortage, but introducing a turbulent new era. Almost overnight, the United States has become the world's number one energy powerhouse--and, during the coronavirus crisis, brokered a tense truce between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Yet concern about energy's role in climate change is challenging our economy and way of life, accelerating a second energy revolution in the search for a low carbon future. All of this has been made starker and more urgent by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic dark age that it has wrought.

    More at Goodreads.
    I read one this guym's earlier books immediately before, and it was outstanding. I only got a couple chapters into this one and it was every bit as good.

    So I guess how this is going to work, I'm throwing this out here at the end of February. At the end of March, we'll all talk about it or something. Or don't. I could care less.
    HardcoreHusky, first/right, as always. A year ago.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club



    Full disclosure, I have never conducted nor participated in book club. But at HardcoreHusky, expertise is a disqualification.

    I cheated a little and started this last week. It's completely my wheelhouse, big picture stuff somewhere between the Tug and @creepycoug shitty little bored, knowledge of which helps me not at all in daily life. Call it intellectual onanism.

    The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (Daniel Yergin, 2020)


    Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future

    The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations in a time of global crisis. The shale revolution in oil and gas--made possible by fracking technology, but not without controversy--has transformed the American economy, ending the era of shortage, but introducing a turbulent new era. Almost overnight, the United States has become the world's number one energy powerhouse--and, during the coronavirus crisis, brokered a tense truce between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Yet concern about energy's role in climate change is challenging our economy and way of life, accelerating a second energy revolution in the search for a low carbon future. All of this has been made starker and more urgent by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic dark age that it has wrought.

    More at Goodreads.
    I read one this guym's earlier books immediately before, and it was outstanding. I only got a couple chapters into this one and it was every bit as good.

    So I guess how this is going to work, I'm throwing this out here at the end of February. At the end of March, we'll all talk about it or something. Or don't. I could care less.
    HardcoreHusky, first/right, as always. A year ago.
    I still need to finish that. Got side tracked reading bout Comanches.