The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems Audiobook (Free)

From the acclaimed writer of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways that science and executive must interact to handle our world’s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and preventing natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the seek out renewable energy sources. While the scientist may recognize problems, it falls towards the engineer to solve them. It is the natural about THE FUNDAMENTAL Engineer: Why Research Alone WON’T Solve Our Global Problems practicality of anatomist, which takes into account structural, financial, environmental, and various other factors that science often does not consider, which makes engineering crucial to answering our most urgent concerns.

Henry Petroski uses us in the research, advancement, and debates surrounding the most significant problems of our period, exploring the feasibility of biofuels, the progress of battery-operated cars, and the issue of nuclear power. He gives us an in-depth analysis of the many options for alternative energy-among them solar, wind, tidal, and ethanol-explaining the benefits and risks of each. Will windmills shortly populate our landscape just how they do in previous centuries? Will synthetic trees and shrubs, said to be better at absorbing dangerous carbon dioxide than real trees, soon dot our prairies? Can we build a “sunshade” in space to safeguard ourselves from dangerous rays? In many cases, the technology already exists. What’s needed is not so much invention as executive.

Just as the fantastic achievements of centuries past-the steamship, the airplane, the moon landing-once seemed beyond reach, the solutions to the twenty-first century’s problems await only an identical coordination of science and anatomist. Eloquently reasoned and written, The Essential Engineer identifies and illuminates these problems-and, above all, pieces out a course for putting ideas into action.

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