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Drilling down the Gulf Oil debacle and our energy dilemma /

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...

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Main Author: Tainter, Joseph A.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Patzek, Tadeusz W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Copernicus Books, ©2012.
New York, NY : [2012]
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 242 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
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505 0 0 |t Introduction --  |t The significance of oil in the Gulf of Mexico --  |t The energy that runs the world --  |t Offshore drilling and production, a short history --  |t The energy-complexity spiral --  |t The benefits and costs of complexity --  |t What happened at the Macondo Well --  |t Why the Gulf disaster happened --  |t Our energy and complexity dilemma: prospects for the future --  |g Appendix A.  |t Glossary --  |g Appendix B.  |t Offshore Production --  |g Appendix C.  |t Operating an offshore platform --  |t About the authors --  |t Index. 
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