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Robert Bryce

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Born
Tulsa, Oklahoma (former energy capital of the world), The United States
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Mark Twain, Vadclav Smil

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March 2008

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Robert Bryce has written three books, his newest being Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence. He was hailed as a 'visionary' by the New York Times, a fact he often repeats to his children and his dog, Biscuit. ...more

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Power Hungry: The Myths of ...

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A Question of Power: Electr...

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Smaller Faster Lighter Dens...

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Gusher of Lies: The Dangero...

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Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, an...

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Cronies: Oil, The Bushes, a...

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The Colchicine Factor

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Staff That Saved America: T...

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A Question of Time

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Electrifying America
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Robert Bryce Robert Bryce said: " The descriptions in this book of the first days of electric light are worth the price of the book. A bit wonky at times, but a good history of electricity -- a commodity that we take for granted. "

 
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“Averting the looming (pick your favorite term) catastrophe, time bomb, crisis, or emergency, requires us to hew to their worldview, one in which we humans are the problem and the Earth is the object to be saved. The biggest and most influential environmental groups routinely preach a message of doom. They regularly claim, for instance, that technology is dangerous (their opposition to nuclear and GMOs are obvious examples of this mindset) and that industrial development must be stopped in order to the save the planet. However, the painful paradox is that they are aiming to stop many of the innovations that are helping to improve the environment and raise the living standards of millions of people. They are also promoting energy policies that would be ruinous for the environment they say they want to protect.”
Robert Bryce, Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong

“In April 2012, Greenpeace spotlighted the issue of power demand in data centers in the report “How Clean Is Your Cloud?”
Robert Bryce, Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong

“Over the past century and a half, we’ve gone from harnessing animals—and enduring all the shit they shat—to harnessing the subatomic motion of electrons.”
Robert Bryce, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations

“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”
Jessica Mitford

“Objectivity? I always have an objective. ”
Jessica Mitford

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.
(writing about US President Warren G. Harding)
H.L. Mencken

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
Mark Twain




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