--- product_id: 468247250 title: "No Miracles Needed" price: "NT$981" currency: TWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/468247250-no-miracles-needed store_origin: TW region: Taiwan --- # No Miracles Needed **Price:** NT$981 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** No Miracles Needed - **How much does it cost?** NT$981 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/468247250-no-miracles-needed) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description No Miracles Needed [Jacobson, Mark Z.] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. No Miracles Needed Review: Learn about renewable energy - Great book if you want to learn how tech is already available for renewable energy and it sire already being applied globally. Shows the science and reasoning why renewable energy sources make sense. Review: 80%WWS by 2030 - I'm on page 13 & already feel like an expert! Pretty easy read so far. Lots of facts to breeze through to get a basic understanding of exactly what needs to change where, what the problems are and why. Can you imagine if everybody read this book & grasped the science & understanding in a real way. Empowering in that it gives you the facts without the social political side. I think a technical Republican would enjoy this book because it's the facts, & the explanation of the facts without a lot of opinion & bossiness. Highly recommend. Do I get a Stanford degree when I get through the whole thing? ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #794,571 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #382 in Weather (Books) #777 in Environmental Economics (Books) #1,556 in Environmentalism | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (115) | | Dimensions | 6 x 1.03 x 9 inches | | Edition | New | | ISBN-10 | 1009249541 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1009249546 | | Item Weight | 2.31 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 454 pages | | Publication date | February 2, 2023 | | Publisher | Cambridge University Press | ## Images ![No Miracles Needed - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Ku9HjWSsL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Learn about renewable energy *by C***G on January 13, 2026* Great book if you want to learn how tech is already available for renewable energy and it sire already being applied globally. Shows the science and reasoning why renewable energy sources make sense. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 80%WWS by 2030 *by S***S on April 22, 2023* I'm on page 13 & already feel like an expert! Pretty easy read so far. Lots of facts to breeze through to get a basic understanding of exactly what needs to change where, what the problems are and why. Can you imagine if everybody read this book & grasped the science & understanding in a real way. Empowering in that it gives you the facts without the social political side. I think a technical Republican would enjoy this book because it's the facts, & the explanation of the facts without a lot of opinion & bossiness. Highly recommend. Do I get a Stanford degree when I get through the whole thing? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thrilling but flawed *by J***R on January 9, 2024* I'm glad I read it, but this book is both thrilling and disappointing at the same time. Educated in physics and experienced in project engineering and management, I was hoping for more. To start, the text is NOT an easy read, because it needs serious editing, linguistically and for typos. It gets worse further in. Is it evil to suspect that some of the text came from classroom handouts? The illustrations/ tables are also rather clunky. Figure 8.1 especially is a mess: Edward Tufte would not approve. I agree with others that the "My Journey" chapter should have been at front as a preface. I tend to read the back sections of books before starting Chapter 1, so I had a sense of what was coming; but that was my luck in terms of knowing how the author's story got him to a position where he could challenge sacred cows in the energy industries. The excursions into basic physics may help some readers, but the book is not consistent: why explain diagrammatically the PV effect and the principles of motors but not, say, heat pumps? The discussion of hydro power also seems uneven: that only 3% of dams have hydropower facilities sounds like an opportunity - except that this statistic is misleading if most dams are very small and the big ones are already producing power. Also hard to believe that building several thousand pumped storage facilities (the number that Jacobson implies that the world needs) is going to happen quickly. The energy capture from regenerative braking cannot really "extend range substantially", especially if hybrids are considered (which the text does not discuss versus full EVs): per journey, much more fuel goes to pushing a vehicle through the air than in getting it up to speed. "Hauling all those batteries around to save money", in an IC car, has always been suspect to me. (And check the prices and weights of the BMW PHEVs!). More urgently, recent news about particles thrown off from large tires on heavy electric vehicles, and the damage caused to roads, gives pause: this is about normal rolling resistance and tire loads, not just braking. Choosing the author's own house as an example of heat conserving design is fair enough, but why not add some more examples from Scandinavia or even Amory Lovins banana-growing house at 8000' elevation in Colorado? Speaking of whom, Amory's 1976 article is far from his only contribution, never mind the Rocky Mountain Institute that he founded. In particular, Mr. Lovins has championed insulation efficiency, which is a simple technology whose installation does not need the higher training levels of plumbers, electricians and programmers. As such, Jacobson could have highlighted it as a "no-miracle" approach that, according to Lovins, could make a huge impact. I'd also like to know the relative insulation value of wood framing of houses versus Jacobson's steel framing - never mind the issues such as resourcing of materials AND labor for using steel rather than wood construction in millions of homes. Jacobson says his house only uses 2 of the 4 installed batteries, which hints at a permitting issue. Whoa - what went wrong here? An example of bureaucratic resistance? - that is a pertinent story to tell. There is discussion of transformer tech, and a possible move to iron-nitride magnets for generation, but the latter - not commercialized yet - sounds like a bit of a miracle. Also, the space given to the story of Tesla versus Edison just seems off. This history really does not affect the choices we now have, where both AC and DC have their place. Another area needing emphasis is the way in which time-of-use pricing meets reality for the power utilities. "Vehicle-to-grid" power contributions should have great value, as also load shedding (made less onerous for owners if dwellings are better insulated, so they cool or heat more slowly when the power is off). But the utilities have time horizons much longer than home owners, so balancing the needs of both side of this equation is tricky. Consider what happens if millions of home owners have Nest thermostats that load shed at a digitally-precise 3pm. Meantime, my particular 'smart' thermostat is not on my utility's list of supported devices, so I'm SOL to help their load shedding. As these devices proliferate, the regulation - and programming - problems grow worse. My biggest concern for WWS is the need to completely rework the grid. This is going to need lots of copper. Does the world have enough? And what about the labor and training of engineering and technical resources, and the changes in regulation required? Changing one line in the Electrical or Mechanical Code can take a complete 3 year revision cycle: that model of regulation surely won't support the rate of change required to get all these technology upgrades past Town Hall. The book has a rich set of references, even if a lot of Jacobson's own work is listed, but many interesting statements throughout the book do not have sources quoted. Another frustration. The timing and extent of the climate disaster requires new thinking from all of us. "No Miracles" is a good critique of some of society's boxed thinking and resistance, and invites a clearer-headed awareness of the opportunity costs of nuclear, carbon capture, "natural" gas, etc.. However, this work is actually a textbook disguised as popular science. It contributes much as a conversation starter, but desperately needs a 2nd edition if it is to make it into the pantheon of climate adaptation. ## Frequently Bought Together - No Miracles Needed - The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future - Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tw/products/468247250-no-miracles-needed](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/468247250-no-miracles-needed) --- *Product available on Desertcart Taiwan* *Store origin: TW* *Last updated: 2026-04-23*