{"product_id":"power-plants-james-palmer-9781526192127","title":"Power Plants: Bioenergy, Vegetal Labour and the Politics of Productivity","description":"Power Plants offers an unflinching assessment of society's underappreciated but growing addiction to the industrial burning of crops and trees for energy. As vehicles increasingly run on fuels made from sugarcane and oil-palm, wood pellets replace coal, and scientists rush to engineer crops to produce renewable jet fuel, this book blows apart bioenergy's reputation as a simple, benign substitute for fossil fuels. Scrutinising modern bioenergy systems in the UK, Europe and United States, Power Plants shows how vegetal lifeforms are being enrolled to reinforce energy cultures centred around logics of efficiency, productivity and economic growth at all costs. Nonetheless, the book insists that a closer attention to plants could yet provoke a rethink of the social and economic purposes of all kinds of energy, with radical implications for ideas about growth, waste, prosperity and even pleasure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Palmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526192128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526192127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"James Palmer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48114122424575,"sku":"9781526192127","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8886cab0-83c8-4c86-ba1b-5864307b77f0.jpg?v=1769619256","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/power-plants-james-palmer-9781526192127","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}