Fossil Dragon: Energy Systems: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - Couverture souple

Lawrence, S W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1958808571 ISBN 13 : 9781958808573

Editeur : Sidekick Press, 2026

Synopsis

Fossil Dragon is the opening act in the Trilogy of Dragons. Jake Harper is in his last year of a graduate degree in electrical engineering at George Washington University in our nation's capital. He is staunchly promoting the "electrification of everything" to address the weirding climate.

His partner, Abbey London, is completing her last year of an infectious disease fellowship at the affiliated med center. Her climate concern is dealing with the burgeoning threat of tropical and exotic diseases.

Together they operate her parents' Dragonfly Inn in nearby Virginia. Jake organizes a group of graduate students to address the civilizational risks of continued exploitation of coal, natural gas and petroleum.

Personally, each of them must decide if they truly want to commit to their relationship, or succumb to the temptation of past partners.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Minnesota, I grew up in Missouri, then at eighteen realized my California dream with undergraduate years at Stanford, including two years on the tennis team. After med school back in my home state, I completed a residency at UC San Francisco, where I gave my first public lecture, a talk on nuclear power. Two weeks later, I started teaching full-time in a UC Davis-affiliated family medicine residency, with much of my practice focused on obstetrics but also HIV care starting in early 1983. I taught full-time for sixteen years, with my main academic appointment at UC Davis, but coming full circle, a community faculty appointment at Stanford Med Center as well, since I taught a number of their PA stu-dents.I lost my heart in San Francisco. My wife became a certified nurse-midwife, and between the two of us, we delivered thousands of babies and had three of our own, all graduated and married-two of them with a couple of grandsons apiece. We moved up to Bellingham more than a quarter century ago, but are now both retired. In the last ten years, I have continued to lecture widely, including several seminar series at Western Washington University and many other venues, such as a couple of out-of-state conferences. But I no longer teach medicine; rather, I teach about energy systems, the climate system, epidemiology, and the electric grid, and this set of fourteen or so lectures forms the basis for many of the chapters in my book.Our biggest climate-related trip was in Europe in 2015, which includ-ed biking in Berlin, Copenhagen, and Oslo, then a two-week cruise from Svalbard to Greenland and Iceland. We accomplished hiking, kayaking, and a true polar plunge well north of the Arctic Circle while in Green-land. Additionally, we explored some of the eastern Canadian maritime islands in 2023. Over the next twenty months, we plan to visit and inves-tigate the electric grids of Kauai and Puerto Rico.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sidekick Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1958808571
• ISBN 13: 9781958808573
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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