About this book

The author name is not printed here because the book is not about the author. It is about the argument, the sources, and whether Americans can get a little harder to fool about energy.

The project is open source on GitHub, so the authorship is not hidden. It is just not the point.

It is self-funded and free. There is no donation link, no merch, no foundation, and no plan to turn this into an organization. The best way to help is to share it with someone who hears "green energy" and checks out before the facts arrive.

Why it exists

Mostly because I was frustrated and wanted to be able to say I tried. The goal is not to force anyone into a new identity. The goal is to get skeptical Americans to apply their skepticism evenly.

A very specific dream sits behind the book: get the argument into the kinds of rooms where people already say "follow the money." If Joe Rogan reads it, hears about it, or starts pulling on the oil-lobby side of the story on his podcast, the project has done its job.

Source trail

This is a synthesis. Major source trails come from Climate Town, Technology Connections, Hank Green, Undecided with Matt Ferrell, JerryRigEverything, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the Department of Energy, NREL, FERC and NERC, Berkeley Lab, USDA, USGS, the International Energy Agency, Lazard, OpenSecrets, Global Energy Monitor, and the reporting and research linked inside each chapter. Every chapter lists its sources at the bottom of the page.

The videos are not decoration. They are part of the reading experience: examples of propaganda, practical engineering arguments, and source trails that make the machinery easier to see.

Images

The homepage and social card use NASA/SDO imagery of the sun because the argument starts with the fuel source itself. The homepage land-use image is a solar farm beside farmland by Aivars Vilks on Unsplash because the land question should be visible instead of abstract. Other chapter images are credited in their captions.

How it was made

The short version is also disclosed at the end of the book: this was created with heavy AI assistance and human responsibility. The first version came together in about a day. The current edition was rebuilt and re-checked against primary sources, with numbers updated through 2026. The model helped organize, draft, and fact-check. The sources still have to stand on their own, and corrections are welcome on GitHub.