5 R&D - key element of Successful Player (USA, Japan, Germany..)

Beautiful work by Daniel Yergin! This kind of books is very important for people of all generations. It gives you clear vision on global historical and ongoing events/changes in energy sector. Until now, resources like oil, gas, coal, nuclear (uranium) are being very popular worldwide in terms of energy source. Massive supply chain of these products around the world go under every second control by different governments, regions, continents, companies, etc. Every unexpected break of this flow may hardly influence on internal processes of each country. And all these processes are only growing day to day, requiring more resources, more energy. The consequence of worldwide energy consumption growth is developing serious tasks to human. Climate change, environmental pollution, running out fossil fuel resources, etc. And one of the key strategies, which is being used for ongoing analysis of those tasks by top developed countries is R&D - Research & Development. USA, Japan, France, Germany invest billions of dollar in R&D departments in order to find, innovate, develop required know-how technologies which will help to improve energy and human's life efficiency in all aspects.

Book is highly recommended for dynamic, cool people like me who wishes to remind himself how sustainability and creativity is important for every human's success.