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  title info:
    title: Drilling Down
    sub title: The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma
  name:
    name part: Tainter, Joseph A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Patzek, Tadeusz W.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 242 p. 97 illus., 47 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth. As societies grow more complex through the bounty of cheap energy, they also confront problems that seem to increase in number and severity. In this era of fossil fuels, cheap energy and increasing complexity have been in a mutually-reinforcing spiral. The more energy we have and the more problems our societies confront, the more we grow complex and require still more energy. How did our demand for energy, our technological prowess, the resulting need for complex problem solving, and the end of easy oil conspire to make the Deepwater Horizon oil spill increasingly likely, if not inevitable? This book explains the real causal factors leading up to the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, a disaster from which it will take decades to recover. A world expert on oil technology and one of our foremost social commentators, the author of “The Collapse of Complex Societies,” join forces to: Lead you on a fascinating tour from the events on the Deepwater Horizon to the processes in society that made the tragedy nearly inevitable Explain the energy-complexity spiral that governs our way of life Take you beyond the headlines, finger pointing, and political punditry to the underlying causes of the Gulf catastrophe Help decision-makers from all walks of life to understand the risks and challenges of managing complex organizations Discuss energy options for the future Praise for Drilling Down: In this book, Joseph Tainter and Tadeusz Patzek use the Gulf oil spill as a point of entry to discuss our energy future. For those of us who watched the oil spill from afar, this book provides the technical background t…
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Significance of Oil in the Gulf of Mexico -- 3. The Energy that Runs the World -- 4. Offshore Drilling and Production: A Short History -- 5. The Energy-Complexity Spiral -- 6. The Benefits and Costs of Complexity -- 7. What Happened at the Macondo Well -- 8. Why the Gulf Disaster Happened -- 9. Our Energy and Complexity Dilemma: Prospects for the Future -- Appendix A. Glossary Appendix B. Offshore Production -- Appendix C. Operating an Offshore Platform -- Index.
  note: by Joseph A. Tainter, Tadeusz W. Patzek.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Energy policy
  subject:
    topic: Energy and state
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Energy industries
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Energy Economics
  subject:
    topic: Energy Policy, Economics and Management
  subject:
    topic: Operation Research/Decision Theory
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  classification: GE300-350
  classification: 333.7
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781441976772
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7677-2
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