- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Units and Conversions
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- PART ONE SYSTEMS
- The Earth’s Energy Systems
- Man in the Biosphere
- The Industrial Revolution and the Oil Age
- The Unifying Principle
- ‘Social Energetics’
- Energy Correlations and Costs
- PART TWO RESOURCES
- Coal
- Petroleum
- Oil – Natural Gas
- Alternative Sources of Oil
- Tar Sands – Oil Shales
- Nuclear Energy
- Fission – Fusion
- ‘Non-Depleting’ Energy Sources
- Solar – Hydro – Tidal – Wave – Geothermal – Wind – Wood
- Energy Conversion and Storage
- Electricity – Electricity Storage – Gas from Coal – Oil from Coal – Fluidized Bed Combustion of Coal – Methane and Alcohol from Biomass – Pyrolysis and Incineration of Wastes – Small-scale Gasification by Partial Combustion
- PART THREE FUTURES
- Approaches to Energy Forecasting
- Tightening Constraints
- The Energy Budget
- Eliminating Waste – Conservation
- Planning for Transition
- Recapitulation
- Appendix
- Conversion Factors
- Lists of Figures and Tables
- List of Sources Quoted
- Index