Jesse D. Jenkins Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Jesse Jenkins is an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Macro-energy systems engineering, optimization, and policy. Prof. @EPrinceton (MAE) & @AndlingerCenter. Leads ZERO Lab. More affiliations & interests at link 👇
How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation
Gregory F. NemetJesse D. Jenkins[The book] unpacks that remarkable story of... how we took solar P.V. from this kind of niche technology that was so expensive it could only be used by NASA in space missions and turned it into the cheapest source of electricity in the world today.
Paperback, 2019
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Artificial Condition
Martha WellsJesse D. Jenkins@RicOConnell8 This year (reverse order): Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse Gideon the Ninth & Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir All Systems Red & Artificial Condition, Martha Wells Hail Mary, Andy Weir Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone The City We Became, NK Jemisin Forward (short stories collection)
Hardcover, 2018
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Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn MuirJesse D. Jenkins@RicOConnell8 This year (reverse order): Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse Gideon the Ninth & Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir All Systems Red & Artificial Condition, Martha Wells Hail Mary, Andy Weir Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone The City We Became, NK Jemisin Forward (short stories collection)
Paperback, 2020
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Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists
Michael ShellenbergerJesse D. JenkinsAnd while they've annoyed and angered many in their role as chief critics of environmentalism, credit to @TedNordhaus & Michael Shellenberger for pegging the problem with "the politics of limits" long ago in "The Death of Environmentalism" and their book "Break Through."
Paperback, 2009
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Black Sun
Rebecca RoanhorseJesse D. Jenkins@RicOConnell8 This year (reverse order): Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse Gideon the Ninth & Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir All Systems Red & Artificial Condition, Martha Wells Hail Mary, Andy Weir Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone The City We Became, NK Jemisin Forward (short stories collection)
Paperback, 2021
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
George PackerJesse D. Jenkins@RicOConnell8 Oh and in hardcopy: Ministry of the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson The Tyrant Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson And in non-fiction: How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith (highly recommended) On Juneteenth, Anette Gordon-Reed Last Best Hope, George Packer
Paperback, 2022
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Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
Jay InsleeJesse D. JenkinsReading "Break Through" (the critique) and @JayInslee & Bracken Hendricks' "Apollo's Fire" (the vision) back to back in 2007 changed my views on the challenge and solutions to climate change forever. Powerful stuff. (Has it truly been 15 years?! Wow)
Paperback, 2009
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Economics
Ira B. CrossJesse D. Jenkins@climatefuturist @JohnSemmelhack @enelx @Ford @gradientcomfort @span_io Yeah IRA will make a big difference in the economics I think. We'll cross the full house heat pump bridge some day in the future if/when our boiler is ready to go.
Hardcover, 2013
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint SmithJesse D. Jenkins2. How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith. A beautifully written, very human look at the not so distant and systematically distorted history of slavery in America. A must read for any US citizen. Check out an excerpt at The Atlantic https://t.co/U8fTsdf1ph https://t.co/6osBlnKfJl
Paperback, 2022
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Harrow the Ninth
Tamsyn MuirJesse D. Jenkins@RicOConnell8 This year (reverse order): Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse Gideon the Ninth & Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir All Systems Red & Artificial Condition, Martha Wells Hail Mary, Andy Weir Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone The City We Became, NK Jemisin Forward (short stories collection)
Paperback, 2021
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