Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air And The Global Energy Crisis
Publishing Details
Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air And The Global Energy Crisis
By (Author) Jeremy Leggett
Granta Books
Granta Books
8th June 2006
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Energy industries and utilities
333.79
Physical Properties
320
Width 127mm, Height 198mm, Spine 25mm
313g
Description
An expose of the oil industry's cover-up of the diminishing oil supply, that paints a bleak picture of the future in which the price of oil skyrockets, economies and communities shudder worldwide, and the globe must move to renewable source to give it power.
Author Bio
Jeremy Leggett began his career as a lecturer in earth sciences at Imperial College, London, where he researched oil source rocks and ancient oceans while consulting for oil corporations. Increasingly concerned about climate change, in 1989 he joined Greenpeace, staying for 7 years, initially as their UK Chief Scientist and later as an international climate campaigner. He is now CEO of Solarcentury the UK's largest independent solar electric company, a member of the UK government's Renewables Advisory Board, and a director of the world's first private-equity investment fund in renewable energy. His first book, The Carbon War, was described as 'the best book yet on the politics of global warming' by the Sunday Times.
