The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy

This avant-garde book provides a truly novel insight into the nature of energy. If you are concerned about the cost, supply or the political debate over what many might perceive is a precious resource, The Bottomless Well brings a lot to the table. The book is an intriguing insight to an extraordinary side of what most of us hold as conventional wisdom on this subject. Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills make the case that most of the things we take for granted concerning our use of energy are essentially myths- because we really don't grasp the essence of what energy is in the first place and how it will continue to evolve into the future. The book takes neither a leftwing tree-hugging environmentalist nor rightwing supply-side capitalist stance, but rather, simply increases our understanding of energy to a higher level.

The Bottomless Well shows how a better understanding of energy will radically change our views and policies on a number of issues we face today. The book then goes on to explain why demand for energy will only continue to increase, why most of what we believe is "energy waste" actually proves out to be a benefit for all; why more efficient vehicles, engines, and light bulbs will never lower demand, and why the earth's energy supply is actually infinite.

The sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we must know something about energy. But according to Peter Huber and Mark Mills, the things we "know" are mostly myths. In The Bottomless Well, Huber and Mills debunk the myths and show how a better understanding of energy will radically change our views and policies on a number of very controversial issues. They explain why demand will never go down, why most of what we think of as "energy waste" actually benefits us; why greater efficiency will never lead to energy conservation; and why the energy supply is infinite-it's quality of energy that's scarce and expensive. The Bottomless Well will also revolutionize our thinking about the automotive industry (gas prices don't matter and the hybrid engine is irrelevant), coal and uranium, the much-maligned power grid (it's the worst system we could have except for all the others), what energy supplies mean for jobs and GDP, and many other hotly debated subjects.