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<P><B class=Lead>TO</B> make sense of the shifting world of
energy, you need a good guide. Vijay Vaitheeswaran's Power to
the People is a lucid guide to the new energy landscape, from
Edison to Enron, from coal to carbon nanotubes. The energy
industry may be the environmentalists' number-one enemy. But
it also offers us an unparalleled window to a sustainable
future for our abused planet. For it is the only one among the
great industries of our modern world - think water, farming,
construction, mining, electronics - for which we can see an
emerging blueprint of how things ought to be. </P>
<P>The building blocks are being assembled even as dinosaurs
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grow ever faster. The ultimate means of storing and
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off the drawing board. Super-efficiency in transport through
inventions like the Hypercar cannot be too far behind. And
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powering Californian suburbs as Indian villages. </P>
<P>It sometimes makes amusing reading to see the ideology of
Friends of the Earth bent through the free-market prism of the
Madras-born energy correspondent of <I>The Economist</I>. But
there is food for thought in an analysis where, as one chapter
title attests, "Adam Smith meets Rachel Carson".</P>
<P>Not everything is right.His obituary for big dams looks
decidedly premature now that the World Bank is back in there
loaning cash. Perhaps he believes too readily that markets
will do the sensible thing and equate environmental and
economic efficiency. But not many writers can bestride the
worlds of politics and industry, economics and
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