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I recommend this book because Michael Webber is a superb communicator and has focused this book on a topic most other climate and energy books (including mine) pay too little attention: the need for water as an input to many decarbonization technologies.

Professor Webber explains the looming shortages of planetary water and the different uses of water in energy technology in clear, lively prose.

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