1st Edition

The Tesla Revolution Why Big Oil is Losing the Energy War

334 Pages
by Amsterdam University Press

Though oil prices have been on a downward trajectory in recent months, that doesn't obscure the fact that fossil fuels are finite, and we will eventually have to grapple with the end of their dominance. At the same time, however, skepticism about the alternatives remains: we've never quite achieved the promised 'too cheap to meter' power of the future, be it nuclear, solar, or wind. And hydrogen... Read more
Prologue, Special Introduction Chapter 1 — The Tesla Revolution Chapter 2 — A History of Fossil Fuel Dominance Chapter 3 — The Petrodollar and the Geopolitics of Oil Chapter 4 — Peak Oil Revisited: The End of Cheap Oil Chapter 5 — Climate Change and the World of Energy Chapter 6 — What Will the Energy Mix of the Future Be? Epilogue, Appendix, References, Prologue.

Biography

Willem Middelkoop is founder of the Commodity Discovery Fund and a bestselling author, who has been writing about the world’s financial system since the early 2000s.

Rembrandt Koppelaar is a senior researcher at the Swiss Institute for Integrated Economic Research (IIER).