Energized Audiobook (Free)

No-one expected the oil to last forever. How right they were.

A geopolitical miscalculation tainted the world’s main oil fields with radioactivity and plunged the center East into chaos. Any oil that remains usable is more prized than ever. No one can build solar farms, blowing wind farms, and electrical cars quickly enough to cope. The few countries still in a position to export petroleum and natural gas-Russia chief among them-have a stranglehold in the world economy.

Then, through the darkness of space, came about Energized Phoebe. Rather than deflect the onrushing asteroid, America coaxed it into Earth’s orbit. Solar powered energy satellites-cheaply mass-produced in orbit with assets mined from the new moon to beam huge amounts of capacity to the ground-offer America its last, greatest hope of staying away from servitude and economic ruin.

As though building miles-wide constructions in space isn’t challenging plenty of, special passions, from technophobes to eco-extremists to radio astronomers, want to stop the project. And the rest of the petro powers can do anything to protect their newfound dominance of world affairs.NASA engineer Marcus Judson is set to help make the powersat demonstration project successful. And he will-even though nothing in his work explanation mentions combating a global cabal or going into space to do it.