Pollution, Politics, and Power : The Struggle for Sustainable Electricity
Thomas O. McGarity;Thomas O. McGarity
The electric power industry has been transformed over the past forty years, becoming m...
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Pollution, Politics, and Power : The Struggle for Sustainable Electricity
2019
The electric power industry has been transformed over the past forty years, becoming more reliable and resilient while meeting environmental goals. A big question now is how to prevent backsliding.Pollution, Politics, and Power tells the story of the remarkable transformation of the electric power industry over the last four decades. Electric power companies have morphed from highly polluting regulated monopolies into competitive, deregulated businesses that generate, transmit, and distribute cleaner electricity . Power companies are investing heavily in natural gas and utility-scale renewable resources and have stopped building new coal -fired plants. They facilitate end-use efficiency and purchase excess electricity produced by rooftop solar panels and backyard wind turbines, helping to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.But these beneficial changes have come with costs . The once-powerful coal industry is on the edge of ruin, with existing coal -fired plants closing and coal mines shutting down. As a result, communities throughout Appalachia suffer from high unemployment and reduced resources, which have exacerbated a spiraling opioid epidemic. The Trump administration's efforts to revive the coal industry by scaling back environmental controls and reregulating electricity prices have had little effect on the coal industry's decline.Major advances therefore come with warning signs, which we must heed in charting the continuing course of sustainable electricity . In Pollution, Politics, and Power, Thomas O . McGarity examines the progress made, details lessons learned, and looks to the future with suggestions for building a more sustainable grid while easing the economic downsides of coal's demise.
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Renewable energy sources--United States--History - Coal trade--United States--History - Coal-fired power plants--United States--History - Electric utilities--United States--History - Electric power--United States--History - Environmental policy--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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Samuli Tikkanen;Samuli Tikkanen
Congressional interest in nuclear waste is generally focused on managing commercial sp...
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2020
Congressional interest in nuclear waste is generally focused on managing commercial spent nuclear fuel (SNF), the waste produced from commercial nuclear power plants, and other high-level nuclear wastes (HLW), largely from Cold War–era nuclear weapons materials production. Chapter 1 examines the management of spent nuclear fuel, concerns related to the storage of nuclear waste, and the need for long-term solutions. Chapter 2 discusses a permanent geologic repository for disposal of commercial spent nuclear fuel and other high-level nuclear wastes. Chapter 3 is a draft of a bill to find a solution for the safe disposal of nuclear waste. The United States currently has no permanent disposal facility for spent nuclear fuel or other highly radioactive waste. The draft makes critical reforms to our Nation's nuclear waste management policy. Chapter 4 reports on The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA) which calls for disposal of spent nuclear fuel in a deep geologic repository. Chapter 5 examines the extent to which the Office of Environmental Management's (EM's) management of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit follows selected project management best practices; challenges EM faces in disposing of the sodium-bearing waste; and challenges EM faces in treating and disposing of the calcine waste.
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Radioactive waste disposal--United States - Radioactive wastes--United States--Storage - Radioactive wastes--United StatesContent provider:
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Fuel for the Future: Processed High Quality Coals for Low- and Zero-emissions Power
George Domazetis, Author;George Domazetis, Author
We are currently facing a global problem caused by increasing levels of greenhouse gas...
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Fuel for the Future: Processed High Quality Coals for Low- and Zero-emissions Power
2019
We are currently facing a global problem caused by increasing levels of greenhouse gases, mostly derived from fossil fuels, resulting in climate change. Communities want an affordable and secure supply of power alongside emissions reductions. Coal electricity generation offers a secure and affordable supply, but, currently, this comes with high emissions. This volume examines efforts by both industry and governments to develop a cleaner use of low rank coals . It presents leading research on creating affordable, high-quality fuel for efficient power generation, with a trajectory toward affordable zero-emissions production. This book will be of interest to organisations active in developing clean usage of coal and which conduct research on low emissions power. It will also contribute to policy development of low-, and zero-emissions coal power generation, particularly in regions with abundant deposits of low-cost brown coal , lignite, and subbituminous coal , including the US, China, Europe, India, Indonesia, and Australia.
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Coal--Environmental aspects - Clean coal technologiesContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Technologies
Ting Wang;Gary J. Stiegel;Ting Wang;Gary J. Stiegel
Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Technologies discusses this innovative p...
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Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Technologies
2017
Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Technologies discusses this innovative power generation technology that combines modern coal gasification technology with both gas turbine and steam turbine power generation, an important emerging technology which has the potential to significantly improve the efficiencies and emissions of coal power plants. The advantages of this technology over conventional pulverized coal power plants include fuel flexibility, greater efficiencies, and very low pollutant emissions. The book reviews the current status and future developments of key technologies involved in IGCC plants and how they can be integrated to maximize efficiency and reduce the cost of electricity generation in a carbon-constrained world. The first part of this book introduces the principles of IGCC systems and the fuel types for use in IGCC systems. The second part covers syngas production within IGCC systems. The third part looks at syngas cleaning, the separation of CO2 and hydrogen enrichment, with final sections describing the gas turbine combined cycle and presenting several case studies of existing IGCC plants. Provides an in-depth, multi-contributor overview of integrated gasification combined cycle technologies Reviews the current status and future developments of key technologies involved in IGCC plants Provides several case studies of existing IGCC plants around the world
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Coal gasification--Technological innovations - Integrated gasification combined cycle power plantContent provider:
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Environmental Issues Today : Choices and Challenges [2 Volumes]
Robert J. Duffy;Susan M. Opp;Robert J. Duffy;Susan M. Opp
This two-volume set provides an authoritative overview of the major environmental issu...
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Environmental Issues Today : Choices and Challenges [2 Volumes]
2020
This two-volume set provides an authoritative overview of the major environmental issues of the 21st century, with a special focus on current challenges, trends, and policy choices.This set provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and focused resource for understanding the nature and scope of environmental challenges facing the United States and the world in the 21st century, as well as options for meeting those challenges. Volume One covers environmental trends and challenges within the United States, while Volume Two illuminates environmental issues and choices around the world. Issues covered in both volumes include vital topics such as climate change, air and water pollution, natural resource and species protection, and agricultural/industrial impacts on the environment and public health. For all topics, the authors—scholars and experts hailing from a wide range of environmental and policy fields—detail a range of political, social, and economic options for the future and explain why the issue in question is important for society and people as well as the natural world.
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Environmentalism - Environmental policy - Nature--Effect of human beings onContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Safe Enough? : A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk
Thomas R. Wellock;Thomas R. Wellock
Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimagin...
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Safe Enough? : A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk
2021
Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimaginable and prevent it. They confronted a deceptively simple question: When is a reactor “safe enough” to adequately protect the public from catastrophe? Some experts sought a deceptively simple answer: an estimate that the odds of a major accident were, literally, a million to one. Far from simple, this search to quantify accident risk proved to be a tremendously complex and controversial endeavor, one that altered the very notion of safety in nuclear power and beyond. Safe Enough? is the first history to trace these contentious efforts, following the Atomic Energy Commission and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as their experts experimented with tools to quantify accident risk for use in regulation and to persuade the public of nuclear power's safety. The intense conflict over the value of risk assessment offers a window on the history of the nuclear safety debate and the beliefs of its advocates and opponents. Across seven decades and the accidents at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, the quantification of risk has transformed both society's understanding of the hazards posed by complex technologies and what it takes to make them safe enough.
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Nuclear power plants--Risk assessment--United States--History - Nuclear power plants--United States--Safety measuresContent provider:
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Engaging the Atom : The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe From the 1950s to the Present
Arne Kaijser;Markku Lehtonen;Jan-Henrik Meyer;Mar Rubio-Varas;Arne Kaijser;...
Transnational perspectives on the relationship between nuclear energy and society. Wit...
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Engaging the Atom : The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe From the 1950s to the Present
2021
Transnational perspectives on the relationship between nuclear energy and society. With the aim of overcoming the disciplinary and national fragmentation that characterizes much research on nuclear energy, Engaging the Atom brings together specialists from a variety of fields to analyze comparative case studies across Europe and the United States. It explores evolving relationships between society and the nuclear sector from the origins of civilian nuclear power until the present, asking why nuclear energy has been more contentious in some countries than in others and why some countries have never gone nuclear , or have decided to phase out nuclear , while their neighbors have committed to the so-called nuclear renaissance. Contributors examine the challenges facing the nuclear sector in the context of aging reactor fleets, pressing climate urgency, and increasing competition from renewable energy sources. Written by leading academics in their respective disciplines, the nine chapters of Engaging the Atom place the evolution of nuclear energy within a broader set of national and international configurations, including its role within policies and markets.
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Nuclear energy--Social aspects--Europe - Nuclear engineering--Europe--History - Nuclear energy--Government policy--Europe - Nuclear energy--Europe--Public opinionContent provider:
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Phillips, Sharon;Phillips, Sharon
Coal has long been the major fossil fuel used to produce electricity. The existing coa...
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2015
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Coal-fired power plants--Environmental aspects--United States - Coal-fired power plants--United States--Design and construction - Electric power-plants--Efficiency--United StatesContent provider:
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Luther J. Carter;Luther J. Carter
This title, first published in 1987, examines the topic of nuclear waste management, a...
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2016
This title, first published in 1987, examines the topic of nuclear waste management, and the way in which the public reacts to this issue. Part 1 explores the sources of public unease, such as the way in which nuclear waste had failed to be properly contained in the past. Part 2 looks at the search for a waste policy and the introduction of The Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Part 3 examines the waste problem from the standpoint of it being an international issue, and finally, Part 4 looks to the future and the lessons that we can learn from past nuclear waste management failures. This book will be of interest to students of environmental management.
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Radioactive waste disposal--Government policy--United States - Radioactive waste disposal--Government policy--Case studiesContent provider:
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Iraq Country Review. Nov2023, Vol. 13 Issue 6, p793-767. 240p.
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Iraq Country Review. Nov2023, Vol. 13 Issue 6, p793-767. 240p.
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IEEE JOURNAL OF PHOTOVOLTAICS.
Iraq Country Review. Nov2023, Vol. 13 Issue 6, p793-767. 240p.
A country report for Iraq is presented from publisher Country Watch, with topics including increased demand of Photovoltaic; shortages of semiconductors; and development of photovoltaics industry.
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PHOTOVOLTAIC power generation - DIRECT energy conversion - IRAQContent provider:
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The Global Coal Market : Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies
Mark C. Thurber;Richard K. Morse;Mark C. Thurber;Richard K. Morse
Coal has been the world's fastest-growing energy source in absolute terms for over a d...
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The Global Coal Market : Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies
Coal has been the world's fastest-growing energy source in absolute terms for over a decade. Coal also emits more CO2 than any other fossil fuel and contributes to serious air pollution problems in many regions of the world. If we hope to satisfy the demand for affordable energy in emerging economies while protecting the environment we need to develop a keen understanding of the market that supplies coal . This book offers an in-depth analysis of the key producers and consumers that will most influence coal production, transport, and use in the future. By exploring how countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Australia, and South Africa have developed their respective coal industries - and how these industries link together through the international coal trade - experts shed light on how the global coal market may evolve, and the economic and environmental implications. This book is the most comprehensive treatment of these topics to date and will appeal to a wide readership, including scholars and practitioners working on energy economics and policy.
2015
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Energy consumption--Developing countries - Coal trade--Developing countriesContent provider:
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Climate, Science and Society : A Primer
Zeke Baker;Tamar Law;Mark Vardy;Stephen Zehr;Zeke Baker;Tamar Law;Mark Vard...
Climate, Science and Society: A Primer makes cutting-edge research on climate change a...
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Climate, Science and Society : A Primer
2024
Climate, Science and Society: A Primer makes cutting-edge research on climate change accessible to student readers. The primer consists of 37 short chapters organized within 11 parts written by Science and Technology Studies (STS) and other social science scholars. It covers a range of key topics including communication, justice and inequality, climate policy, and energy transitions, situating each one within the context of STS studies. Each reading translates a focused area of climate change research into short, accessible, and lively prose. Chapter authors open debates where relevant, consider policy implications, critique existing areas of research, and otherwise situate their reading within a larger body of research relevant to climate change courses. Designed as a jumping-off point for further exploration, this innovative book will be essential reading for students studying climate change, STS, environmental sociology, and environmental sciences. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Climatic changes--Social aspects - Science and civilizationContent provider:
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The Impact of Devolution in Wales : Social Democracy with a Welsh Stripe?
Jane Williams;Aled Eirug;Jane Williams;Aled Eirug
This volume reflects on two decades of Welsh devolution, and contributes to the debate...
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The Impact of Devolution in Wales : Social Democracy with a Welsh Stripe?
2022
This volume reflects on two decades of Welsh devolution, and contributes to the debate on its significance and future course. Drawing on previously unpublished interviews undertaken by the late Professor Michael Sullivan with key protagonists in Welsh devolution, and with expert analysis from leading researchers in different disciplines and fields of policy, the book examines what has been described as the emergence through devolution of a ‘Welsh stripe'in social democracy. While the volume editors conclude this epithet, coined by Professor Sullivan, is apt, this collection of essays also presents a complex, multi-faceted picture of the drivers of policy, of continuity from the pre-devolution era, as well as change driven by factors within and without Wales. A mixed picture emerges, featuring variously (and in various combinations of) boldness of ambition, distinctive ideological positioning, homegrown priority-setting, the frustrations of the devolution settlement, and adverse (arguably unfair) international comparisons .
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Decentralization in government--WalesContent provider:
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Compressed Air Energy Storage : Types, Systems and Applications
David S-K. Ting;Jacqueline A. Stagner;David S-K. Ting;Jacqueline A. Stagner
The intermittency of renewable energy sources is making increased deployment of storag...
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Compressed Air Energy Storage : Types, Systems and Applications
2021; Vol. 00184
The intermittency of renewable energy sources is making increased deployment of storage technology necessary. Technologies are needed with high round-trip efficiency and at low cost to allow renewables to undercut fossil fuels. The cost of lithium batteries has fallen, but producing them comes with a substantial carbon footprint, as well as a cost to the local environment.
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Compressed airContent provider:
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Designing Smart and Resilient Cities for a Post-Pandemic World : Metropandemic Revolution
Anthony Larsson;Andreas Hatzigeorgiou;Anthony Larsson;Andreas Hatzigeorgiou
Are pandemics the end of cities? Or, do they present an opportunity for us to reshape ...
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Designing Smart and Resilient Cities for a Post-Pandemic World : Metropandemic Revolution
2023
Are pandemics the end of cities? Or, do they present an opportunity for us to reshape cities in ways making us even more innovative, successful and sustainable? Pandemics such as COVID-19 (and comparable disruptions) have caused intense debates over the future of cities. Through a series of investigative studies, Designing Smart and Resilient Cities for a Post-Pandemic World: Metropandemic Revolution seeks to critically discuss and compare different cases, innovations and approaches as to how cities can utilise nascent and future digital technology and/or new strategies in order to build stronger resilience to better tackle comparable large-scale pandemics and/or disruptions in the future. The authors identify ten separate societal areas where future digital technology can impact resilience. These are discussed in individual chapters. Each chapter concludes with a set of proposed'action points'based on the conclusions of each respective study. These serve as solid policy recommendations of what courses of action to take, to help increase the resilience in smart cities for each designated area. Securing resilience and cohesion between each area will bring about the metropandemic revolution. This book features a foreword by Nobel laureate Peter C. Doherty and an afterword by Professor of Urban Technologies, Carlo Ratti. It provides fresh and unique insights on smart cities and futures studies in a pandemic context, offers profound reflections on contemporary societal functions and the needs to build resilience and combines lessons learned from historical pandemics with possibilities offered by future technology.
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Smart cities - Sustainable urban development - Cities and towns--Technological innovations - City planningContent provider:
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The Nature of Data : Infrastructures, Environments, Politics
Jenny Goldstein;Eric Nost;Jenny Goldstein;Eric Nost
When we look at some of the most pressing issues in environmental politics today, it i...
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The Nature of Data : Infrastructures, Environments, Politics
2022
When we look at some of the most pressing issues in environmental politics today, it is hard to avoid data technologies. Big data, artificial intelligence, and data dashboards all promise “revolutionary” advances in the speed and scale at which governments, corporations, conservationists, and even individuals can respond to environmental challenges. By bringing together scholars from geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, and ecology, The Nature of Data explores how the digital realm is a significant site in which environmental politics are waged. This collection as a whole makes the argument that we cannot fully understand the current conjuncture in critical, global environmental politics without understanding the role of data platforms, devices, standards, and institutions. In particular, The Nature of Data addresses the contested practices of making and maintaining data infrastructure, the imaginaries produced by data infrastructures, the relations between state and civil society that data infrastructure reworks, and the conditions under which technology can further socio-ecological justice instead of re-entrenching state and capitalist power. This innovative volume presents some of the first research in this new but rapidly growing subfield that addresses the role of data infrastructures in critical environmental politics.
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Political ecology - Environmental policy - Environmental sciences--Data processing - Technology--Environmental aspects - Infrastructure (Economics)--Data processingContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Investing in the Era of Climate Change
Bruce Usher;Bruce Usher
A climate catastrophe can be avoided, but only with a rapid and sustained investment i...
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Investing in the Era of Climate Change
2022
A climate catastrophe can be avoided, but only with a rapid and sustained investment in companies and projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To the surprise of many, this has already begun. Investors are abandoning fossil-fuel companies and other polluting industries and financing businesses offering climate solutions. Rising risks, evolving social norms, government policies, and technological innovation are all accelerating this movement of capital.Bruce Usher offers an indispensable guide to the risks and opportunities for investors as the world faces climate change. He explores the role that investment plays in reducing emissions to net zero by 2050, detailing how to finance the winners and avoid the losers in a transforming global economy. Usher argues that careful examination of climate solutions will offer investors a new and necessary lens on the future for their own financial benefit and for the greater good. Companies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions will create great wealth, and, more importantly, they will provide a lifeline for humanity.Grounded in academic and industry research, Usher's insights bring clarity to a complex and controversial topic while illuminating the people behind the numbers. This book sets out a practical and actionable plan for investors that will alter the course of climate change.
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Climatic changes--Economic aspects - Investments--Environmental aspectsContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Transitioning to Affordable and Clean Energy
/Constable, Edwin;/Constable, Edwin
Transitioning to Affordable and Clean Energy is a collective volume which combines ori...
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Transitioning to Affordable and Clean Energy
2022; Vol. 00007
Transitioning to Affordable and Clean Energy is a collective volume which combines original contributions and review papers that address the question how the transition to clean and affordable energy can be governed. It will cover both general analyses of the governance of transition, including policy instruments, comparative studies of countries or policies, and papers setting out scientifically sound visions of a clean and just energy system. In particular, the following aspects are foregrounded:• Governing the supply and demand side transformation• Geographical and cultural differences and their consequences for the governance of energy transitions• Sustainability and justice related to energy transitions (e.g., approaches for addressing energy poverty) Transitioning to Affordable and Clean Energy is part of MDPI's new Open Access book series Transitioning to Sustainability. With this series, MDPI pursues environmentally and socially relevant research which contributes to efforts toward a sustainable world. Transitioning to Sustainability aims to add to the conversation about regional and global sustainable development according to the 17 SDGs. The book series is intended to reach beyond disciplinary, even academic boundaries.
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Clean energyContent provider:
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Steve Isser;Steve Isser
The electric utility industry in the US is technologically complex, and its structure ...
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2015
The electric utility industry in the US is technologically complex, and its structure as a classic network industry makes it intricate in business terms as well, so deregulation of such a complicated industry was a particularly detailed process. Steve Isser provides a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the history of the transformation of this complex industry from the 1978 Energy Policy Act to the present, covering the economic, legal, regulatory, and political issues and controversies in the transition from regulated utilities to competitive electricity markets. The book is a multidisciplinary study that includes a comprehensive review of the economic literature on electricity markets, the political environment of electricity policymaking, administrative and regulatory rulemaking, and the federal case law that restrained state and federal regulation of electricity . Isser offers a valuable case study of the pitfalls and problems associated with the deregulation of a complex network industry.
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Electric utilities--United States--History - Electric utilities--Deregulation--United States--History - Electric utilities--Law and legislation--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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The Extraction State : A History of Natural Gas in America
Charles Blanchard;Charles Blanchard
The history of the United States of America is also the history of the energy sector. ...
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The Extraction State : A History of Natural Gas in America
2020
The history of the United States of America is also the history of the energy sector. Natural gas provides the fuel that allows us to heat our homes in winter and cool them in summer with the touch of a button or turn of a dial—when the industry runs smoothly. From the oil crisis of the 1970s to the fall of Enron and the California electricity crisis at the turn of the century to contemporary issues of hydraulic fracking, poorly conceived government policies have sometimes left us shivering, stranded, or with significantly lighter wallets. In this expansive narrative, Charles Blanchard traces the rise of natural gas and the regulatory missteps that nearly ruined the market. Beginning in the 1880s, The Extraction State explains how the New Deal regulatory compact came together in the 1920s, even before the Great Depression, and how it fell apart in the 1970s. From there, the book dissects the policies that affect us today, and explores where we might be headed in the near future.
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Natural gas - Gas industry--United StatesContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Lessons Learned From the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety of U.S. Nuclear Plants
National Research Council;Division on Earth and Life Studies;Nuclear and Ra...
The March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami sparked a humanitarian dis...
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Lessons Learned From the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety of U.S. Nuclear Plants
2014
The March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami sparked a humanitarian disaster in northeastern Japan. They were responsible for more than 15,900 deaths and 2,600 missing persons as well as physical infrastructure damages exceeding $200 billion. The earthquake and tsunami also initiated a severe nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Three of the six reactors at the plant sustained severe core damage and released hydrogen and radioactive materials. Explosion of the released hydrogen damaged three reactor buildings and impeded onsite emergency response efforts. The accident prompted widespread evacuations of local populations, large economic losses, and the eventual shutdown of all nuclear power plants in Japan. Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants is a study of the Fukushima Daiichi accident. This report examines the causes of the crisis, the performance of safety systems at the plant, and the responses of its operators following the earthquake and tsunami. The report then considers the lessons that can be learned and their implications for U.S. safety and storage of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste, commercial nuclear reactor safety and security regulations, and design improvements. Lessons Learned makes recommendations to improve plant systems, resources, and operator training to enable effective ad hoc responses to severe accidents. This report's recommendations to incorporate modern risk concepts into safety regulations and improve the nuclear safety culture will help the industry prepare for events that could challenge the design of plant structures and lead to a loss of critical safety functions. In providing a broad-scope, high-level examination of the accident, Lessons Learned is meant to complement earlier evaluations by industry and regulators. This in-depth review will be an essential resource for the nuclear power industry, policy makers, and anyone interested in the state of U.S. preparedness and response in the face of crisis situations.
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Nuclear power plants--Safety measures--Risk assessment - Nuclear reactor accidents--Japan - Nuclear power plants--Security measures - Nuclear power plants--Safety measuresContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Canada, the Provinces, and the Global Nuclear Revival : Advocacy Coalitions in Action
Duane Bratt;Duane Bratt
As the world struggles to meet the growing international demands for electricity, gree...
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Canada, the Provinces, and the Global Nuclear Revival : Advocacy Coalitions in Action
2012
As the world struggles to meet the growing international demands for electricity , green energy, and alternatives to fossil fuels, the nuclear power sector is experiencing global growth. Nuclear reactors are being designed and constructed at record rates, and Canada is joining the trend, with several provinces considering an expansion of their nuclear presence. Canada, the Provinces, and the Global Nuclear Revival critically examines Canadian nuclear policy in order to show how historic, environmental, economic, and political factors have shaped the direction of the nation's energy industry. Duane Bratt presents a comparative study of the Canadian nuclear sector - using a framework of interest-based coalitions - in its response to the global revival, analyzing nuclear development in Ontario, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The book also answers fundamental questions such as: Has Canada seized international opportunities in uranium mining, reactor sales, and cooperation with other countries in nuclear research? To what extent has the industry been consolidated through mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment, and the privatization of crown corporations? A state-of-the-art exploration of Canada's place in the rapidly shifting world of electricity production by an acclaimed expert in the field, Canada, the Provinces, and the Global Nuclear Revival is a major contribution to the international nuclear debate.
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Nuclear energy--Government policy--Canada - Nuclear industry--Government policy--Canada - Nuclear industry--Canada - Nuclear industry--Political activity--CanadaContent provider:
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Buying Time : Environmental Collapse and the Future of Energy
Kaz Makabe;Kaz Makabe
WE KNOW, from repeated failures to predict and prevent catastrophes ranging from the G...
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Buying Time : Environmental Collapse and the Future of Energy
2017
WE KNOW, from repeated failures to predict and prevent catastrophes ranging from the Great Tohoku Earthquake to the global financial crisis of 2008, that complex adaptive systems, such as those found in nature or in economies, are actually very hard to predict, much less influence. Today, we face environmental degradation caused in large part by the use of fossil fuels, ever-declining efficiencies in extracting them, a pace of development for renewable energy insufficient for replacement of the fossil fuels we are burning through, and population growth that is likely to add two billion people globally by 2045. Despite partial recovery since the financial crisis of 2008, growth remains sluggish, and large budget deficits persist across much of the developed world. Meanwhile, developing states face their own challenges, stemming from unbalanced growth. Against this backdrop, and in light of the urgent need to pay closer heed to our environment, the last thing the world needs is an energy crisis triggered not merely by recurrent scares over supply, but by more lasting structural changes in our ability to use fossil fuels with reckless abandon. Buying Time applies lessons learned the hard way from the global economic crisis of the past decade, to offer an overview of the state of the environment and our energy future. Grounded in subtle thinking about complex systems, including the economy, energy, and the environment, this book underscores the connections linking them all. Kaz Makabe is a veteran financial systems expert who lived through the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. He nevertheless concludes that nuclear energy is the bridge than can help us cross over the abyss we face.
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Nuclear energy--Environmental aspects - Renewable energy sources--Environmental aspects - Power resources--Environmental aspects - Fossil fuels--Environmental aspectsContent provider:
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From Knowledge To Power : The Comprehensive Handbook for Climate Science and Advocacy
John Perona;John Perona
Together, humans can prevent the global temperature rise from exceeding 1.5 degrees Ce...
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From Knowledge To Power : The Comprehensive Handbook for Climate Science and Advocacy
2021
Together, humans can prevent the global temperature rise from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius, which would change life on earth as we know it. Politics and science collide as we learn what it really means to be an advocate for the environment. The Earth is slowly heating up, and only we, as a global community, can stop it—with the knowledge behind what is happening, we can affect change. Using his PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale and his LLM in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from the Northwestern College of Law at Lewis & Clark University, Dr. John Perona takes us on a journey into the science and politics of the climate crisis in From Knowledge to Power: Your Handbook for Climate Science and Advocacy. Perona uses the basic science of climate change, the rise of green technologies, and the political implications of climate science to present a concise guide to the critical facts regarding our climate change. He offers actionable tips for how to engage in advocacy by calling for action at every level—leaders in both science and government, community groups, and individuals like you. Perona offers a grounded, optimistic outlook for humanity, but only if we engage with science and act with knowledge.
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Global warming--Prevention - Climatic changesContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Bright Green Lies : How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It
Derrick Jensen;Lierre Keith;Max Wilbert;Derrick Jensen;Lierre Keith;Max Wil...
“This disturbing but very important book makes clear we must dig deeper than the norma...
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Bright Green Lies : How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It
2021
“This disturbing but very important book makes clear we must dig deeper than the normal solutions we are offered.”—Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia Works'Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic consumption and industrial expansion and survive as a species. The environmental debate, Derrick Jensen and his coauthors argue, has been distorted by hubris and the childish desire by those in industrialized nations to sustain the unsustainable. All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the Earth itself. We refuse to ask the right questions because these questions expose a stark truth—we cannot continue to live as we are living. To do so is suicidal folly. ‘Tell me how you seek, and I will tell you what you are seeking,'the German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said. This is the power of Bright Green Lies: It asks the questions most refuse to ask, and in that questioning, that seeking, uncovers profound truths we ignore at our peril.”—Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of America: The Farewell Tour
