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Every civilization can be measured by how it gathers, stores, and uses energy. Fire was the first breakthrough, the Prometheus gift that turned raw meat into sustenance and darkness into light. Later came agriculture, where sunlight was harvested indirectly through crops and animals. The Industrial Revolution was not simply a change in machines; it was a change in energy metabolism. Coal compressed millions of years of photosynthesis into solid black power. Oil and gas unlocked mobility, plastics, fertilizers, and the very fabric of the modern world. This book does not only describe technologies. It describes a drama of survival: whether humanity can reinvent its metabolism before the limits of the Earth close in. It is also a book of imagination: whether we can design an energy future that is not merely less destructive, but positively life-enhancing - a civilization where energy abundance is reconciled with ecological balance.

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