A history of energy… No less.
In any case, this is the ambition of Jean-Baptiste Fressoz in his work
Sans transition
.
An ambition that is all the more stimulating as this CNRS researcher goes against the ideas that abound around political, economic, industrial and environmental issues.
For the man who is also a teacher at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) and the School of Bridges and Roads, the energy transition is quite simply an illusion and he intends to demonstrate it.
His point is all the more relevant because it is supported: figures borrowed from the best sources, meaningful curves, clear diagrams... So many tools for chapters not far from the uppercut.
The author challenges “phasism”, this commonly shared approach according to which energies follow one another in history: thus, renewables and nuclear power will one day end up making fossil fuels disappear.
“Need it be remembered that no source…
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