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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </FONT></DIV> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090504040009010902040707 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Chris. I, tried to access the text of Lovins' book *Winning the oil endgame, *through the site you gave at:* **http://www.oilendgame.com/ *but, as David Webster has posted, I, too, was led directly to the main page of the Rocky Mountain Institute's (RMI) website. I navigated through "knowledge center" to "library", and found only a file of 206 KB - a four page executive summary only of the book. Can you be more specific about how to locate and download the entire book? Bob Lindsay Dartmouth ** On 07/09/2012 3:50 PM, Christopher Majka wrote: > Hi Pat, > > On 30-Aug-12, at 7:51 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote: > >> Hi all: >> >> I would highly recommend this book: >> >> http://www.amazon.com/Energy-Problems-Technical-Society-Kraushaar/dp/0471573108 >> >> When my son was taking engineering it was the text for one of his >> courses. I then read it and passed it on to a co-worker. It has lots >> of worked examples with real-life numbers but you don't need a degree >> in math to follow them. One of the best parts was the diagram that >> showed where all the energy in gas-powered car went when driving at >> highway speeds. If I recall correctly, out of the 100% of energy >> possible with complete combustion, less than 5% of that actually is >> used to move the car. The rest is lost as heat, friction, and >> aerodynamic drag. The latter is the main reason milegage starts going >> down after 85-90 km/h at high speed > > A _brilliant_ TED talk (recommended to everyone) is by Amory > Lovins (author of soft-energy paths) is: > > *Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame* > http://www.ted.com/speakers/amory_lovins.html > > This was filmed in 2005 (posted in 2007) and the case that he presents > is _even_ more germane now then it was seven years ago. > > Lovins points out that in most conventional automobiles about 88% of > the energy burned by the vehicles never gets to the wheels. It is lost > in the engine, the power train, the accessories, and idling at 0 > km/litre. Of the 12% that does get to the wheels, 1/2 of that is lost > in the friction of the tires heating the road and in friction of > pushing air aside from the path of the vehicle. Only 6% actually > accelerates the car and then heats the brakes when you slow down. > > Now, since typically 95% of the weight that you are moving is of the > vehicle itself rather than the driver and/or the payload, only about > 0.3% of the fuel burned actually results in useful work. 99.7% of the > fuel burned is essentially lost. As Lovins himself points out: > > "This not very gratifying after over a century of devoted engineering > effort." > > The TED talk is really a gloss on his most recent book: > > *Winning the oil endgame* > http://www.oilendgame.com/ > > Which spells out many more of the details of his plan - and it's > available as a free download! :-> > > Cheers! > > Chris > --------------090504040009010902040707 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hello, Chris.<br> I, tried to access the text of Lovins' book <b>W<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">inning the oil endgame, </span></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">through the site you gave at:</span><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><br> <br> </span></b><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.oilendgame.com/">http://www.oilendgame.com/</a></span><br> <br> </span></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">but, as David Webster has posted, I, too, was led directly to the main page of the Rocky Mountain Institute's (RMI) website. I navigated through "knowledge center" to "library", and found only a file of 206 KB - a four page executive summary only of the book.<br> <br> Can you be more specific about how to locate and download the entire book?<br> <br> Bob Lindsay<br> Dartmouth<br> <br> <br> </span><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "></span></b> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/09/2012 3:50 PM, Christopher Majka wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:F2BA6CBF-6F9B-4D8C-B1D5-73C4F55D976E@ns.sympatico.ca" type="cite">Hi Pat, <div><br> <div> <div>On 30-Aug-12, at 7:51 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote type="cite"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all: <div><br> </div> <div>I would highly recommend this book:</div> <div><br> </div> <div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.amazon.com/Energy-Problems-Technical-Society-Kraushaar/dp/0471573108">http://www.amazon.com/Energy-Problems-Technical-Society-Kraushaar/dp/0471573108</a></div> <div><br> </div> <div>When my son was taking engineering it was the text for one of his courses. I then read it and passed it on to a co-worker. It has lots of worked examples with real-life numbers but you don't need a degree in math to follow them. One of the best parts was the diagram that showed where all the energy in gas-powered car went when driving at highway speeds. If I recall correctly, out of the 100% of energy possible with complete combustion, less than 5% of that actually is used to move the car.