Feeding the Fire助燃
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作者： Mark Eberhart著
出 版 社： 武汉大学出版社
出版时间： 2007-5-1字数：版次：页数： 283印刷时间： 2007/05/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780307237446包装： 平装内容简介
The ancient Mayan city of Tikal died out， and London nearly met the same fate in the Middle Ages， because they exhausted their local energy sources。 All humankind faces a similar situation today， says Eberhart （Why Things Break）， but perhaps Americans have enough imagination to come up with alternative energy sources in time to save civilization and the planet。 Unlike other commentators on the energy crisis， he steps back to consider the basic science——all the way back to the laws of thermodynamics and the principle of entropy。 This discussion is enlivened by the chemistry professor’s friendly tone and his gleeful recounting of early childhood experiments in creating explosives， but some readers may be understandably impatient to learn how all this background can be applied to the contemporary situation。 When Eberhart， at the Colorado School of Mines， finally gets to that subject， his solution is admittedly broad。 He suggests that the U。S。 needs to create an “energy-industrial complex” to fully supply its needs by 2035， but offers little in the way of specific proposals beyond building more electric cars and providing economic incentives for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from factories。 The science is fine， but more history and policy would have helped。
作者简介：
DR.MARK E.EBERHART is a fifth-generation native of Colorado。He grew up in Denver where he attended public school。One institution where he sought an education was Stedman Elimentary School，which was named after his father and summers Mark would travel to Salem。Oregon，to be with his father and stepfamily。At age sixteen Mark enrolled at the University of Colorado，where he received both a B。S with majors in chemistry and applied mathematics and an M。S。in physical biochemistry。In 1979 he applied and was accepted to MIT as a Ph。D。candidate studying materials science and engineering。
At the same time Mark was packing his belogings in preparation for the move to Boston，the Iranian revolution was in full swing and gasoline in the United States was in short supply。News account of a gasstarved public waiting in service-station lines for hours were common。Undetrred by the uncertainty，Mark placed six five-gallon cans full of gas next to his other possessions in the rented U-Haul and headed east。
Four year later Mark received his Ph。D。and was one of a handful of scientists attempting to understand fracture at the quantum mechanical level。The pursuit took him from MIT to Los Alamos National Laboratory and from there to the premier university for engineering in the Rocky Mountains，the Colorado School of Mines，where he is now a professor teaching chemistry and materials science。
Mark live in Denver，just a few miles from where he grew up，and daily rides his bike up the 2，000-foot climb from his office on the CSM campus to the top of Lookout Mountain；he keeps careful records of the energy he expends making the climb，noting each year that as his conditioning improves，the energy wasted on this ride declines。He is a consultant to NOVA and a popular speaker-giving prenentations as diverse as the role of science in society，to Boston’s Great Molasses Disaster and other failures that have shaped engineering，science，and technology。
目录
INTRODUCTION
Energy and Imagination
NATURE’S ENERGY LAWS
1：The Thinking Man’s Diet
2：Diet Basics I：Nothing But Energy
3：Diet Basics II：All Energy Is Not Equal
4：Talking Thermodynamics,Thinking in Pictures：Entropy
5：The Thermodynamics of Forgetting：The Energy in Information
6：The Energy Ride：The Big Picture of Energy Metabolism
7：The Age of Atoms
8：The Age of Molecules
9：From Life to Fossil Fuels
10：Keep Cool,Man,Real Cool：Human Evolution and the Origins of Imagination
OUR ENERGY PAST
11：The Great Energy Rule：First Came Agriculture
12：A Tale of Two Cities：Wood to Burn
13：Saving the Forests：Coal to Burn
14：And There Was Light：Oil to Burn
15：Power Unleashed：Electricity
OUR ENERGY PRESENT
16：First,the Bad News
17：Now for the Good News
OUR ENERGY FUTURE
18：The Thinking Man’s Energy Diet
Notes
References
Index
