Recursos Energéticos

Acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder takes an unprecedented look inside the global battle to power our lives....

The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared....

New York Times best-selling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy....

Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, a military test reactor located in Idaho’s Lost River Desert that exploded on the night of January 3, 1961....

From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

The promise of green jobs and a clean energy future has roused the masses....

William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery....

Most people who are considering off grid living, are those who are wanting to escape the stress and busyness of city life, and enjoy the peace and tranquility of country living....

In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them....

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors....

Do you want to make sure your product people are competent, empowered, and inspired, and would you like to know how you can best help them on this journey? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then this book is for you....

Electric City is the extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - and their attempt to create an electric-powered city of tomorrow on the Tennessee River....

Companies like Netflix, Spotify, and Salesforce are just the tip of the iceberg for the subscription model. The real transformation - and the real opportunity - is just beginning....

Grid insiders know how fragile the grid is becoming. Shorting the Grid shines light on the vulnerabilities of our grid, and includes suggestions for making the grid more dependable....

Historically, it was guns, germs, and steel that determined the fates of people and nations. Now, more than ever, it is electricity....

This is the story of a man caught in the middle of a huge American destabilising operation, illustrating the secret economic war that the United States is waging against developed nations across the world....

As companies evolve to adopt, integrate, and leverage software as the defining element of their success in the 21st century....

If you are preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam and would like to pass it on your first try, you will need to master the test questions and answers included in this book.

Discover the benefits of going off-the-grid and setting up your own solar power system. Learn the benefits, where to set up the system, PV selection, invertor selection, and other considerations....

In this two-manuscripts-in-one audiobook, you will learn how to identify the driving ethos of permaculture and its powerful tenets and principles. Part two will teach you the basics of solar energy, including the benefits and disadvantages, how a solar panel functions, and more....

In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken....

The transition to clean energy is moving far too slowly. Trapped by a century of fossil fuel investments and politicians that struggle to plan beyond the next election, the “Big Grid” that powers our modern world is outdated and in dire need of an upgrade....

With the constant threat of oil shortages facing us and wanting to educate herself about possible alternatives, Gwyneth Cravens skeptically sets out to find for herself the truth about nuclear energy....

From the New York Times best-selling author of Rocket Men and the award-winning biographer of Thomas Paine comes the first complete history of the Atomic Age....