Description
This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an crucial, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change
A master storyteller in addition to a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the brand new energies which might be competing to switch them.
The Quest tells the interior stories, tackles the cruel questions, and reveals surprising insights about coal, electricity, and natural gas. He explains how climate change changed into a really perfect issue and leads readers in the course of the rebirth of renewable energies, energy independence, and the return of the electric car. Epic in scope and never more timely, The Quest vividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals which might be shaping our future.