A review by luisvilla
Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes

informative slow-paced

3.0

The last chapter of this ended up ruining an otherwise great book for me. It is partially an artefact of when the book was written (2017, an eternity ago in wind and solar) but the chapter gets some things very deeply wrong about our relative ability to improve nuclear (very slow) and improve wind/solar/batteries (it turns out, very fast), and as a result lands on the wrong policy prescriptions to deal with the climate crisis. Despite the failed contemporary policy analysis, it’s a great backward-looking history.