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Index
Cover
Also By William T. Vollmann
Title Page
Copyright
Note to the Reader
Epigraph
Dedication
Companion
Contents: VOLUME I
List of Maps and Illustrations
0: When We Kept the Lights On
Epigraph
About the “Primer” Section
About Tables
About Photographs
PRIMER
What Was the Work For?
About Waste
About Demand
What Was the Work For? (continued)
About Power
What Was the Work For? (continued)
Carbon Ideologies Approached
About Data
About Data Suppression
About Disbelief
“Consider It Good Fortune”
Carbon Ideologies Defined
About Carbon
About Agriculture
About Industrial Chemicals
The Parable of Adipic Acid
About Manufacturing
About Transportation
About Power Plants
Power and Climate
About Solar Energy
About Greenhouse Gases
About Fuels
NUCLEAR
Nuclear Ideology
About Uranium
About Nuclear Reactors
1: Lower Than for Real Estate Agents
March 2011: WHEN THE WIND BLOWS FROM THE SOUTH
February 2014: HARMFUL RUMORS
October 2014: THE RED ZONES
Normalization on the Rocks
Postscript: Japan Sees the Light
Definitions, Units and Conversions
Energy, Electricity, Efficiency, Power, Work, Manufacturing and Engines
Heat and Refrigeration
Nuclear Energy
Coal
Natural Gas and Fracking
Oil
Solar Energy and Light
Environmental Terms Relevant to Resource Extraction
Physical Data
Chemical Abbreviations
Lakhs, Crores and Other Enumeration Terms, with Standard Conversions
Climate Change
Sources, Notes and Calculations
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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