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Engine of Evolution

By: Frank Niele

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Hardcover | 15 September 2005

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Energy: Engine of Evolution is a compelling book that provides a compact history of energy over the last four billion years, with the aim of creating a sound basis to understanding the possible futures of the energy industry. It describes the role that energy has played in the evolution of nature and culture, the impact it has had on the world over time and the implications that we are faced with concerning the role of energy in the future.

This book describes the relationship between life and energy through time, outlining how the major revolutions in the evolution of life on earth were driven by developments at the energy frontiers. Energy: Engine of Evolution states that we are on the verge of the next energy revolution, where we will learn how to master new energy forms in a new way. As a result of years of research and discussions by leading experts in the oil and gas industry, this publication offers inspiring insights and examples of new approaches to technological and evolutionary developments, paving the way towards a more sustainable future.

* Provides evolutionary insight
* Introduces an Energy Time Scale that shows key relationships between energy and the history of planet Earth
* Contains exciting examples of new approaches to sustainable development

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About the book	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
The First Five Energy Revolutions
The Photo-Energy Revolution
The origin of life	p. 3
The origin of sunlight	p. 3
The origin of planet Earth	p. 3
The origin of the living cell	p. 5
The Thermophilic Regime	p. 8
Photosynthesis and free oxygen	p. 8
The origin of photosynthesis	p. 8
Sunlight-driven energy technology	p. 9
The Phototrophic Regime	p. 10
And the face of the earth changed	p. 11
Two grand carbon cycles	p. 11
The self-inflicted crisis	p. 12
The Oxo-Energy Revolution
The origin of aerobic respiration	p. 13
The origin of breathable air	p. 13
Global oxygen crisis	p. 14
Aerobic respiration	p. 15
Oxygen-driven energy technology	p. 16
Microbial symbiosis	p. 18
The origin of the eukaryotic cell design	p. 18
The microbial energy majors	p. 20
The Aerobic Regime	p. 21
Biological diversification	p. 22
Ecological growth	p. 24
And the face of the earth changed	p. 25
The changing landscape	p. 25
Competition and adaptation	p. 26
The Pyro-Energy Revolution
The origin of hominids	p. 29
It needed a crisis	p. 29
The origin of human culture	p. 30
The quest for the human advantage	p. 32
Man the fire master	p. 38
The human advantage	p. 38
The origin of fire	p. 41
Active use of fire	p. 41
The Pyrocultural Regime	p. 43
Societal metabolism	p. 45
The Symbolisational Signal	p. 46
And the face of the earth changed	p. 48
A changing lifestyle	p. 48
And life changed the land	p. 50
The Agro-Energy Revolution
Man the solar farmer	p. 51
The Agricultural Revolution	p. 51
The forces that shaped the revolution	p. 52
The Agrocultural Regime	p. 54
The emergence of competing energy chains	p. 55
A new reality emerges	p. 56
The Quantificational Signal	p. 56
The Scientific Revolution	p. 57
And the face of the earth changed	p. 59
From farms to nation states	p. 59
The growing human footprint	p. 61
The Carbo-Energy Revolution
Hydrocarbon Man	p. 65
The agrocultural energy crisis	p. 65
The dawn of ancient sunlight	p. 66
The Carbocultural Regime	p. 70
The Carbian Explosion	p. 71
An explosion of competing energy chains	p. 71
Electric energy as information carrier	p. 74
Carbocultural non-fossil energy chains	p. 76
Sensitive scientific senses	p. 79
And the face of the earth changed	p. 81
The surging human footprint	p. 81
From fire master to fire addict	p. 83
The Next Energy Revolution
The Staircase of Energy Regimes
Energy regimes	p. 87
The foundation of the Staircase model	p. 87
The rise and fall of complexity	p. 98
The evolution of information	p. 101
Generating information	p. 101
From genes to memes and artefacts	p. 103
Socio-technological development	p. 106
The rhythm of societal development	p. 106
The pushes and pulls of progress	p. 113
The evolution of system earth	p. 114
The Emerging Helio-Energy Revolution
Signs of a coming energy revolution	p. 117
The Macroscopical Signal	p. 117
Two perceptions of reality	p. 119
Leaving Carbon Valley	p. 121
Nuclear Valley	p. 122
Green Valley	p. 125
Sustainable development	p. 128
Limits to nuclear	p. 131
Limits to green	p. 132
The next energy revolution	p. 136
Symbian Man	p. 136
The Helio-Energy Revolution	p. 139
Sun Valley	p. 143
Socio-metabolic complexes	p. 145
And the face of the earth will change	p. 147
Energy, Complexity and Evolution
The Nature of energy	p. 149
Energy-driven organisation	p. 153
References	p. 163
Glossary	p. 171
Index	p. 183
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