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Electric Water: The Emerging Revolution in Water and Energy

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This book is one man's fantasy about where we need go with electricity and water for a sustainable future. The book is very readable and offers food-for-thought and some interesting ideas. But mostly it is another anti-nuclear and anti-utility book that offers little in real factual information and is frequently misleading.

Real solutions to the challenges facing us moving to a sustainable energy future will not be found by glossing over the technical and financial difficulties. Be sure to balance this book with others that provide detailed information of solar, wind, and nuclear technology.

ELECTRIC WATER is for investors and survivalists alike. Using building- block and off-the shelf approaches, Christopher Swan steps briskly thru, in an upbeat way, ways & means to make our way thru the Deadly Twin Challenges, Peaking Oil & Climate Change. Better than futile efforts to hedge one's way thru societal collapse with gold & guns, ELECTRIC WATER uses Civil Engineering, not fear.

Villages work here, independent & localized economies; a workable continuum of life with mobility is presented. Using renewable electric generation at a residential and local scale, with unwieldy grid-based large power generation phased out over time, Swan shows the numbers to support his thesis. His book will grow on us, on our body politic, as we seek better solutions than food production traded for auto fuel, and complcated technofix that is too expensive & too long in coming. The Peaking Oil impacts on financial markets and food supply are upon us.

ELECTRIC WATER is must reading for political staffers charged with producing briefing papers, political parties putting planks on platforms, and political wannabes looking for affordable solutions that work without Big Brother's supervision. If you read Richard Heinberg & James Howard Kunstler, you need ELECTRIC WATER for a chaser!

Energy and water technologies are about to change the world, and ELECTRIC WATER: THE EMERGING REVOLUTION IN WATER AND ENERGY tells how, exploring the combination of energy and water which could lead to the reversal of global warming. Too much of a vision? ELECTRIC WATER is based on technology that already exists, not dreams; thus the book will interest not only high school to college-level collections strong in science, but any public library concerned with alternate energy resources and energy issues.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch