Work
He began to publish books in 1912, including introductions to topics in electrical engineering under the Franckh‘schen Verlagshandlung imprint and popular science works in the same publisher's Kosmos series. His books remain exemplary for their combination of exactness and ease of understanding.
Today, his most important book is considered to be "In a hundred years: the world's future energy supply" (In hundert Jahren - Die künftige Energieversorgung der Welt), which was published in 1931 for Franckh's "Friends of Nature Club" (Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde). In this book, he started by pointing out that humanity would one day run out of coal (he dismissed petroleum as a source of energy, because he felt that it would run out very quickly), and went on to discuss other possible sources of energy that could replace coal, including geothermal power (which already existed in Italy at the time the book was written), and other types of renewable energy that had not yet actually been used: the solar updraft tower, wave farms, and tidal power plants.
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Famous quotes containing the word work:
“You haf slafed your life away in de bosses’ mills and your fadhers before you and your kids after you yet. Vat is a man to do with seventeen-fifty a week? His wife must work nights to make another ten, must vork nights and cook and wash in day an’ vatfor? So that the bosses can get rich an’ the stockholders and bondholders. It is too much... ve stood it before because ve vere not organized. Now we have union... We must all stand together for union.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
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—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
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—Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)