The Hydrogen Economy by Jeremy Rifkin - 9780745630410

The Hydrogen EconomyThe Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth\nAuthor(s): Jeremy Rifkin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745630410, 978-0745630410\nSynopsis\nIn The Hydrogen Economy, best-selling author Jeremy Rifkin takes us on an eye-opening journey into the next great commercial era in history. He envisions the dawn of a new economy powered by hydrogen that will fundamentally change the nature of our market, political and social institutions, just as coal and steam power did at the beginning of the industrial age.\n Rifkin observes that we are fast approaching a critical watershed for the fossil-fuel era, with potentially dire consequences for industrial civilization. Experts had been saying that we had another forty or so years of cheap available crude oil left. Now, however, some of the worlds leading petroleum geologists are suggesting that global oil production cou.