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    • A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents, Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power....

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    • An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
    • By: Saul Griffith
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • In Electrify, Saul Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint - optimistic but feasible - for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment....

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,324 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

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    • Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less
    • By: Alex Epstein
    • Narrated by: Alex Epstein
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 912 ratings
    • The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy.

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    • An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition
    • By: Shalanda H. Baker
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity....

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    • By: Michael Lewis
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,612 ratings
    • What happens when the President of the United States governs one Tweet at a time? When the elected leader of the free world may not have a firm grasp on the names of government agencies, much less an understanding of their intricate inner-workings? Find out....

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    • The Science Behind the Headlines
    • By: Richard A. Muller
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • The near-meltdown of Fukushima, the BP oil rig explosion, and the looming reality of global warming have reminded the president and all U.S. citizens that nothing has more impact on our lives than the supply of and demand for energy....

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    • Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
    • By: Varun Sivaram
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Solar energy has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's more, its potential is nearly limitless. But in Taming the Sun, energy expert Varun Sivaram warns that the world is not yet equipped to harness erratic sunshine to meet most of its energy needs....

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    • A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
    • By: Kate Brown
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • After 1991, international organizations from the Red Cross to Greenpeace sought to help the victims, yet found themselves stymied by post-Soviet political circumstances they did not understand. International diplomats and scientists allied to the nuclear industry evaded or denied facts....

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    • How Innovators Are Using Local-Scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global Energy Industry from the Outside In
    • By: Bill Nussey
    • Narrated by: David Gann
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • The transition to clean energy is moving far too slowly. Trapped by a century of fossil fuel investments and politicians that struggle to plan beyond the next election, the “Big Grid” that powers our modern world is outdated and in dire need of an upgrade....

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,963 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • One Family and the Fracturing of America
    • By: Eliza Griswold
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 251 ratings
    • Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold’s Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism....

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    • The Foreign Policies of Petrostates
    • By: Emma Ashford
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In a world where oil-rich states are more likely to start war than their oil-dependent counterparts, it's surprising how little attention is still paid to these so-called petrostates. Emma Ashford explores how oil production influences global politics....

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    • Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies
    • By: William T. Vollmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Series: Carbon Ideologies, Book 2
    • Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • The second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where "America's best friend" is not merely a fuel, but a "heritage"....

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    • Political Power in the Age of Oil
    • By: Timothy Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption, and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil....

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    • A Human History
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 764 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....

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    • How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America's Power
    • By: Meghan L. O'Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Meghan L. O'Sullivan reveals how fears of energy scarcity have given way to the reality of energy abundance....

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    • How Droughts and Die-offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America
    • By: Jeff Nesbit
    • Narrated by: Jeff Nesbit
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Our world is in trouble - right now. This Is the Way the World Ends tells the real stories of the substantial impacts to Earth’s systems unfolding across each continent....

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    • The Making of a Beast
    • By: John Vaillant
    • Narrated by: Alan Carlson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce, John Vaillant, presents a stunning account of the colossal wildfire at Fort McMurray, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind.

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