Walter Johnson itibaren Železný Brod, Czech Republic

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04/29/2024

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2018-05-10 00:40

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: EMI

This book, listened to in audio CD format, made me so glad that we no longer pay authors by length as in in the age of Dickens and other serial novelists. Let's just say it: This novel is extremely WORDY to the max, but it remains a thrilling and entertaining read. Who is the woman in white? A madwoman escaped from an asylum? A wrongfully mistreated ghostly figure? A Victorian symbol of mysterious feminine purity? Yes. This is a good read because it exemplifies the popular "sensationalist" writing style of the 1800's, and the author really does make you curious to discover all of his secrets as the plot thickens throughout the book. The characters are memorable and vividly sketched - I won't be forgetting Fosco or Percival Glide anytime soon. Maybe a bit oversimplified in a post-modern world, but the novel is illustrative of the Victorian ideal of literature as "morally instructive", and satisfies our instinctive desire for justice. Being a feminist modern reader, I was appalled at one thing above all else. Between the two female protagonists, does the hero (Mr. Hartwright - get it? Heart - right? Clever.) choose the strong, independent, sensible, capable, confident Marion Halcomb despite her unattractive face? No. Does he choose instead the pretty, flimsy, weak-minded woman-child Laura, who requires constant pampering and doting by everyone around her while she swoons and faints at the drop of a pin? Um... sadly yes. Geez, somebody tell her to lose the corset already - how many times can a woman faint in one book? When all is said and done, I'm no Victorian. Give me Marion Halcomb anyday. Substance over beauty.

2018-05-10 04:40

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pozitif Yayınları

Basic premise is the USA could be energy independent in 10 years by going with alcohol rather than petroleum based economy. He suggest using both Ethanol (but admits to replace all USA oil consumption would require all 4x current agricultural output) and methanol. I have not heard much about methanol. It is about ½ as energy dense as gasoline (and 2/3 as much as ethanol). But it can be made from Coal and Natural Gas very easily. It costs around $0.93/gallon currently, so without subsidy it would be $1.86 per gallon. Which is slightly higher than current (March 2009 price for gasoline is $2.00 at the pump but includes a $.050 road taxes which leaves gasolean about $1.50). When this book was written Gas was at $3.00, so Methanol was very competitive. The best part of the book covered the Brazilian history. Basically, the country went to Alcohol from Sugar Cane in the 70s due to the fall of sugar prices (70% drop in prices in 1975) and the rise in oil. First, they mandated 10% ethanol mix. Then 15% to a maximum of 24% for conventional vehicles. Then they started to push ethanol cars. The state oil company was ordered to add ethanol pumps at each service station. Then oil prices skyrocketed in 1979 and then the market share of ethanol cars went to 30%. By 1986 oil prices crashed and made oil cost less than ethanol. Brazil was in trouble with the IMF by subsiding ethanol but kept a 20% mixture. Now they are pushing flex fuel vehicles and now these vehicles at 100% of the new car sales. Brazil is now a net exporter of energy. Another interesting piece was on Hydrogen as a fuel. Too expensive to generate (There is no hydrogen free in the environment. It is bonded with Oxygen (water) or Carbon. Hydrogen creates a lot of energy by mixing with Oxygen, so you need energy to separate it.) The problem of the book is the politics and economics. Most of it is re-treading ground covered by many others - Saudi wahibilism and Saudi support for Madras’s worldwide. It then covers Saudi influence on USA politics. Weak research, mostly secondary sources if they are footnoted at all. Further the actual technical stuff seems to have been pulled from another book titled, "The Methanol Economy", but have not read the original to confirm.

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