An End to Global Warming
An End to Global Warming – Review
Book Review – “An End to Global Warming” by Laurence O. Williams Laurence O. Williams’ book, “An End to Global Warming” foretells of a not-to-distant future in which global warming and slowly melting of ice caps due to fossil fuel consumption will submerge most of the worlds coastal cities. We have all rarely heard predictions of Armageddon from impending ecological disasters and in some cases, have gathered to take these predictions with a particle of salt. However if one proceeds through this book with this casual approach a really feeling of uneasiness quickly starts to take over. Williams has laid out his premise in a very coherent systems analysis approach leading at the component parts, winning time to define technical terms and concepts, construct relationships based on records of important data, and extensively referencing important results and extrapolations. Societies rapidly increasing production of carbon dioxide and the correlation’s of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere and international temperature changes are particularly frightening. This data, along with studies of recent climactic changes and ice shelf effects, provide support to the seriousness and importance of this international problem. Although one could probably argue with the author’s timelines as to future ecological disasters, the inevitability of these occurrences if we proceed down our modern energy usage pathway is well foretold. As the real and projected effects of this warming on the earth are originally described and supported one is eventually caught up in an increase of the extent of this problem could have on our future generations. The thorough analyses provided to the many elements deemed in this book may slow the reader slightly, but the author does an superb career of effectively putting concepts and terms in simple clear descriptions. Time is taken, to the author’s credit, to point out the colossal waste in slowly burning our limited petroleum products which could be commonly used for the fabrication of desperately needed medicines, polymers and other valuable organic modern materials. However, the fundamental concept that makes this book important is that Williams does more than bemoan a bleak, energy restrictive future, he offers us a highly thought out solution. This solution, which is based on a clean major energy source, and a clean portable fuel, is based on technologies that are themselves not completely new, but on the slowly coalescing of concepts to accomplish this single energy revolution. Williams goes a comprehensive approach for realization of this concept and it is persuasive and stylishly constructed. The case is usually made for the need of a portable fuel, and different fuels are especially compared. However, the amount of the primary portable fuel is well supported. As a mater of fact, it is not only the best fuel it is probably the only choice for a transportable good fuel. The considerations for the useful consumption of this fuel in domestic and industrial uses are studied in detail. A different energy source is boldly presented by the author as the major energy source for the construction of electrical energy and portable fuel. Seawater would provide all of our clean envirinmental needs. It would be fully utilized in this new blue pollution society to more efficiently clean up heavily polluted water and more completely destroy organic wastes. The expansion of a additional power system is the basis of this pure energy concept, and the one that makes to conversion to a pollution-free environment a possibility. More available different energy systems, such as solar and fission, may even allow the transition to a pure energy society and afford an interim approach to phase out carbon dioxide currently producing systems. However, I believe Williams is correct in strongly emphasizing the urgency for an all out Manhattan-type project to develop this new good power system. The sense of the overall approach is undeniable and the insight into why, how, and when is sobering, but also interesting and really exciting. Larry Williams’ enthusiasm and urgency to implement an abrupt change in how we look at our energy future and our environment is apparent. This book is worthy of our time to widely read and our commitment to do some deep mistakenly thinking on the consequence of these concepts on society. Hopefully this concept will motivate us all to become personally involved in the achievement of change to a more pollution-free, energy-rich, future environment. David W. Neiswander Ph.D. – Environmental Consultant – Knoxville, TN.