Sustainable Fossil Fuels.(Book review)

Reviewer's Bookwatch | August 1, 2006| | Copyright

Sustainable Fossil Fuels

Mark Jaccard

Cambridge University Press

40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211

0521679796 $24.95 381 pages www.cambridge.org

"Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy" tackles the task of explaining why the solution to energy consumption is not limited to finding an alternative to fossil fuels. The author argues that there is evidence that the world has untapped resources and an energy reserve supply of fossil fuels to last perhaps 800 years (for gas ...

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