能量
Energy
Richard Rhodes · 初版 2018 年
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“Pulitzer Prize 和 National Book Award 得主 Richard Rhodes 揭示了能源转型历程背后的迷人历史——从木材到煤炭、石油、电力及更远。人们生死更迭，企业兴衰起落，国家崛起为世界强权而后衰落，皆与能源挑战息息相关。归根结底，这些挑战的历史讲述的正是人类自身的故事。……自开天辟地以来，人类就一直面临着如何从原材料中获取生命力的问题。每一项发明、每一项发现、每一次适应，都带来了进一步的挑战，”
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……年前印尼发生的那场灾难简直堪比圣经里的天灾，我敢打赌绝大多数人甚至听都没听说过。我最近读了另一本书，在间接了解这个话题上相当有启发性。理查德·罗德斯（Richard Rhodes）写的《能源》（Energy）
…years ago in Indonesia was a disaster of biblical proportions and i guarantee you must people don't even know about it. I read another book recently that was quite indirectly enlightening on the subject. Energy by Richard Rhodes
我目前正在读理查德·罗德斯写的《能源：人类的历史》（Energy: A Human History）。这是一本引人入胜的读物，讲的是过去400年里的能源生产、消耗和技术发展。
I'm reading "Energy: A Human History" by Richard Rhodes currently. It is an engaging read about the last 400 years of energy production, consumption and technology.
写得太棒了，感谢分享链接。能源能用极其精炼的笔墨，把人类的种种作为剖析得如此透彻。我读过不少历史书，但理查德·罗德斯的《能源：人类的历史》给了我一个前所未有的全新视角。谁能想到……
That's a great article, thanks for linking to it. Energy can explain so much about human endeavours in so few words. I've read quite a lot of history, but Richard Rhodes' book Energy, A Human History, gave me a perspective unlike any other. Who would have…
……反应堆。> 美国没有任何处置所有这些废料的路径。这根本不是什么技术难题。美国目前正在 WIPP 设施处置军用核废料 [1]。我刚在理查德·罗德斯的《能源》一书里读到，美国可以在同一个地方把未来一千年里烧出来的所有乏燃料全处置掉。这不是技术问题，而是政治问题。如果说这算是个问题的话，那也是……
…reactors. > USA HAS NO PATH for dispositioning all this fuel. That's not because of any technical difficulty. The US is disposing of military nuclear waste at the WIPP facility [1]. I just read in the book "Energy" by Richard Rhodes that the US could dispose of all the spent fuel it can burn in a thousand years at the same place. It's not a technical problem, it's a political problem. If it's a problem that is…
挺有意思的想法。理查德·罗德斯在他的新书《能源》中描述过，英国早期有一家炼铁厂因为经济衰退导致短期需求低迷，就把多余的铁轧制成铁轨，一旦……就可以重新改作他用。
Interesting thought. In Richard Rhodes new book Energy, he describes how an early iron smelting works in England, faced with temporarily low demand due to a recession, rolled its excess iron into railroad tracks which could be re-used for other purposes once…
……一个来自许多人和不同科学分支的思想与知识的‘综合者’。不过在我看来，他真正崭露头角是在原子弹之后，当时他开始制定美国的原子能战略，本质上是以纯粹的意志力和魅力，把自己——一个科学家，而非政治家——插进了政治精英圈。Rhodes 讲到，Oppenheimer 在早期的会议上完全主导了……
…a "synthesizer" of ideas and knowledge from many people and disparate branches of science. In my opinion he really came into his own, though, after the bomb, when he started formulating the US' atomic energy strategy, essentially inserting himself -- a scientist, not a statesman -- into the political elite by sheer force of will and charisma. Rhodes tells of Oppenheimer completely dominating meetings in early…