The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy

"A wonderful book, which confounds the conventional wisdom of limits and should put virtually every government energy program out of business" (Washington Times)

"This is the only book I've ever seen that really explains energy, its history, and what it will be like going forward." (Bill Gates)

The sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we must know something about these subjects. But according to Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills, the things we think we know are mostly myths. A better understanding of energy will radically change our views and policies on a number of very controversial issues. In The Bottomless Well, Huber and Mills show why energy is not scarce, why the price of energy doesn't matter very much, and why "waste" of energy is both necessary and desirable. Across the board, energy isn't the problem; energy is the solution.

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-12-2009; This was a brilliant book; 1. It manages to consolidate a lot of things into one single book. The California Power shortage, for example was one great reading section.2. The book is very easy to read (and reread). A lot of books suffer from being verbose and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-25-2008; This book is pure dynamite!; Peter Huber and Mark P. Mills--two master iconoclasts have teamed up to write a fascinating and indeed visionary book on the capture and release of energy in our industrialized society.The book is all the more entertaining for the fact...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-29-2008; Detailed but not persuasive; The authors of The bottomless Well are not worried about running out of oil. They are not concerned about peak oil or any of the other resource problems others are concerned about. They have done a lot of research and have made certain...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-15-2008; An important book for independent thought; This book suffers from some gushing enthusiasm and at times seems like you are being presented a glorified power point presentation. That said I strongly encourage you to suffer through the initial "rah-rah" because once you get to the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-12-2009; This was a brilliant book; 1. It manages to consolidate a lot of things into one single book. The California Power shortage, for example was one great reading section.2. The book is very easy to read (and reread). A lot of books suffer from being verbose and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-24-2005; May be true, but is largely beside the point; From a physics perspective, there doesn't seem to a huge amount to complain about here. Of course it's always nice to consider the laws of thermodynamics when discussing energy, and the authors do a reasonable job of it. In fact, I'd...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-27-2008; Claims are made that are not substantiated anywhere in the book; Huber and Mills's argument in this book is basically summarized on p. 43:"...technologies of digital power...will redefine,yet again,how much energy we want and how much we can get.We will want more-much more.And we will get it...; read full review | report as inappropriate