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Theories of the Rise of Steam  \n3 The Long Life of the Flow: Industrial Energy Before Coal  \n4 ‘There Are Mighty Energies in those Masses’: Mobilising Power in a Time of Crisis  \n5 Puzzles of the Transition: The Lasting Advantages of Water  \n6 Fleeing the Flowing Commons: The Expansion of Waterpower That Never Happened  \n7 A Ticket to the Town: Advantages of Steam in Space  \n8 A Force to Count On: Advantages of Steam in Time  \n9 ‘No Government but Fuel’: The Derivation of Power from Coal in  \nBourgeois Ideology  \n10 ‘Go and Stop the Smoke!’: The Moment of Resistance against Steam  \n11 A Long Trail of Smoke: The Fossil Economy Consummated  \n12 The Myth of the Human Enterprise: Towards a Different Theory  \n13 Fossil Capital: The Energy Basis of Bourgeois Property Relations  \n14 China as Chimney of the World: Fossil Capital Today  \n15 A Return to the Flow? Obstacles to the Transition  \n16 Time to Pull the Plugs: On CO2 as an Effluent of Power  \nAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes  \nIndex  \nCHAPTER 1  \nIn the Heat of the Past: Towards a History of the Fossil Economy  \nIn those spacious halls the benignant power of steam summons around him his myriads of willing menials, and assigns to each the regulated task, substituting for painful muscular effort on their part, the energies of his own gigantic arm, and demanding in turn only attention and dexterity to correct such little aberrations as casually occur in workmanship.  \nAndrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures (1835)  \nThe chemical changes which thus take place are constantly increasing the atmosphere by large quantities of carbonic acid [i.e. carbon dioxide] and other gases noxious to animal life. The means by which nature decomposes these elements, or reconverts them into a solid form, are not sufficiently known.  \nCharles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1835)  \nBesides, what has your steam engine and your cast iron done for us? Not to mention the gas, whose frequent explosions threaten one day to blow up Babylon itself.  \nAnonymous worker in The Metropolitan,‘Imprisonment for debt’(May 1834)  \nGlobal warming is the unintended by-product par excellence. A cotton  \nmanufacturer of early nineteenth-century Lancashire who decided to forgo  \nhis old waterwheel and invest in a steam engine, erect a chimney and order coal from a nearby pit did not, in all likelihood, entertain the possibility that this act could have any kind of relationship to the extent of Arctic sea ice, the salinity of Nile Delta soil, the altitude of the Maldives, the frequency of droughts on the Horn of Africa, the diversity of amphibian species in Central American rain forests, the availability of water in Asian rivers or, for that matter, the risk of flooding along the Thames and the English coastline. Nonetheless, sporadic forebodings appear in the literature of the time. One notable flash of apprehension about the atmospheric consequences of em","cbCaioh92eF23JWz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioh92eF23JWz","pdf",4943398,519,"English","# Contents\n## 1 In the Heat of the Past: Towards a History of the Fossil Economy\n## 2 Scarcity, Progress, the Nature of the Human Species? Theories of the Rise of Steam\n## 3 The Long Life of the Flow: Industrial Energy Before Coal\n## 4 ‘There Are Mighty Energies in those Masses’: Mobilising Power in a Time of Crisis\n## 5 Puzzles of the Transition: The Lasting Advantages of Water\n## 6 Fleeing the Flowing Commons: The Expansion of Waterpower That Never Happened\n## 7 A Ticket to the Town: Advantages of Steam in Space\n## 8 A Force to Count On: Advantages of Steam in Time\n## 9 ‘No Government but Fuel’: The Derivation of Power from Coal in Bourgeois Ideology\n## 10 ‘Go and Stop the Smoke!’: The Moment of Resistance against Steam\n## 11 A Long Trail of Smoke: The Fossil Economy Consummated\n## 12 The Myth of the Human Enterprise: Towards a Different Theory\n## 13 Fossil Capital: The Energy Basis of Bourgeois Property Relations\n## 14 China as Chimney of the World: Fossil Capital Today\n## 15 A Return to the Flow? 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