Vaclav Smil - Free Library Land Online https://library.land/ ru Vaclav Smil - Free Library Land Online DataLife Engine Still the Iron Age https://library.land/vaclav-smil/509211-still_the_iron_age.html https://library.land/vaclav-smil/509211-still_the_iron_age.html Still the Iron Age
Although the last two generations have seen an enormous amount of attention paid to advances in electronics, the fact remains that high-income, high-energy societies could thrive without microchips, etc., but, by contrast, could not exist without steel. Because of the importance of this material to comtemporary civilization, a comprehensive resource is needed for metallurgists, non-metallurgists, and anyone with a background in environmental studies, industry, manufacturing, and history, seeking a broader understanding of the history of iron and steel and its current and future impact on society. Given its coverage of the history of iron and steel from its genesis to slow pre-industrial progress, revolutionary advances during the 19th century, magnification of 19th century advances during the past five generations, patterns of modern steel production, the ubiquitous uses of the material, potential substitutions, advances in relative dematerialization, and appraisal of steel's...]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:25:15 +0200 Creating the Twentieth Century https://library.land/vaclav-smil/509210-creating_the_twentieth_century.html https://library.land/vaclav-smil/509210-creating_the_twentieth_century.html Creating the Twentieth Century
]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:25:14 +0200 Natural Gas- Fuel for the 21st Century https://library.land/vaclav-smil/540133-natural_gas-_fuel_for_the_21st_century.html https://library.land/vaclav-smil/540133-natural_gas-_fuel_for_the_21st_century.html Natural Gas- Fuel for the 21st Century
]]> Fri, 03 Apr 2015 20:04:19 +0300 Power Density https://library.land/vaclav-smil/477735-power_density.html https://library.land/vaclav-smil/477735-power_density.html Power Density
]]> Sun, 15 Nov 2015 15:59:39 +0200 How the World Really Works https://library.land/vaclav-smil/618539-how_the_world_really_works.html https://library.land/vaclav-smil/618539-how_the_world_really_works.html How the World Really Works
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Vaclav Smil is my favorite author."—Bill Gates
 
"How the World Really Works represents the highly readable distillation of this lifetime of scholarship… Mr. Smil looks over the horizon of the future with humility and calmness, foreseeing 'a mixture of progress and setbacks, of seemingly insurmountable difficulties and near-miraculous advances.'”—Wall Street Journal
An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish.
We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our...]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:30:32 +0300