Belief Based Energy Technology Development In The United States
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Belief based Energy Technology Development in the United States
Author | : Chi-Jen Yang |
Publsiher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781604976366 |
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This book is a comparative study of two energy policies that illustrates how and why technical fixes in energy policy failed in the United States. In the post-WWII era, the U.S. government forcefully and consistently endorsed the development of civilian nuclear power. It adopted policies to establish the competitiveness of civilian nuclear power far beyond what would have occurred under free-market conditions. Even though synthetic fuel was characterized by a similar level of economic potential and technical feasibility, the policy approach toward synthetic fuel was sporadic and indeterminate. The contrast between the unfaltering faith in nuclear power and the indeterminate attitude toward synthetic fuel raises many important questions. The answers to these questions reveal provocative yet compelling insights into the policy-making process. The author argues that these diverging paths of development can be explained by exploring the dominant government ideology of the time or "ideology of the state" as the sociology literature describes it. The forceful support for nuclear power was a result of a government preoccupied with fighting the Cold War. The U.S. national security planners intentionally idealized and deified nuclear power to serve its Cold War psychological strategy. These psychological maneuverings attached important symbolic meaning to nuclear power. This symbolism, in turn, explains the society-wide enthusiasm. The fabricated myth of the Atomic Age became a self-fulfilling prophecy and ushered in a bandwagon market. On the other hand, a confused, indeterminate, and relatively powerless welfare state stood behind synthetic fuel. The different ideologies of the state explain the government's different attitudes toward nuclear and synfuel endeavors. The overarching discovery is a mode of "belief-based decision-making" in long-term energy planning. This discovery goes against the prevalent assumption of rational choice in social sciences. The author argues that rational-choice assumption is inapplicable because of the extreme long-term nature of energy planning. It is not usually possible to predict the sociopolitical and economic conditions in the distant future. Rational decisions require supporting information, which often includes impossible long-term foresights. One cannot rationally choose between one unknown and another unknown. Pivotal decisions in long-term energy planning must inevitably be belief based, and beliefs are subject to political manipulation and distortions by social mechanisms. Understanding these peculiar but pervasive characteristics of energy business bears important lessons for today's decision making about energy technologies, and the stakes, if anything, are even higher than before. Energy policy communities; historians of the Cold War, American history, and technology; and sociologists would find this book an invaluable resource.
Belief based Energy Technology Development in the United States
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Author | : Chi-Jen Yang |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Nuclear energy |
ISBN | : OCLC:1319191257 |
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Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future
Author | : Mario Giampietro,Kozo Mayumi,Alevgül H. Sorman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780415539661 |
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This book explains why conventional energy analysis and statistics are not useful for generating robust energy scenarios and effective assessments of the quality of alternative energy sources. Then it presents an innovative multi-scale approach, illustrated with empirical results, for effectively dealing with sustainability in face of the coming energy crisis.
Renewable Energy in the UK
Author | : David Elliott |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9783030047658 |
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This book offers a detailed account of how renewable energy has moved from the margins to the mainstream in the UK, and of the battles that have been fought to achieve this, trawling through the often troubled history of government involvement. The book examines how renewables became what now seem likely to be the dominant energy sources of the future. Renewable energy technologies, using solar and wind power and other natural energy sources, are now supplying around 30% of UK electricity and appear set to continue expanding to supply around 50% within the next decade. Although the emphasis of the book is on the UK, developments there are compared with those in other countries to provide an overall assessment of the relevance of the UK experience. Chapters explore why the UK still lags behind many other countries in deploying renewables, in part, it is argued, due to its continued reliance on nuclear power. The book ends with a discussion on what sort of changes may be expected over the coming years. The author does not assume a single answer, but invites readers to consider the possibilities.
The Metabolic Pattern of Societies
Author | : Mario Giampietro,Kozo Mayumi,Alevgül Sorman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2011-10-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781136619946 |
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It is increasingly evident that the conventional scientific approach to economic processes and related sustainability issues is seriously flawed. No economist predicted the current planetary crisis even though the world has now undergone five severe recessions primed by dramatic increases in the price of oil. This book presents the results of more than twenty years of work aimed at developing an alternative method of analysis of the economic process and related sustainability issues: it is possible to perform an integrated and comprehensive analysis of the sustainability of socio-economic systems using indicators and variables that have been so far ignored by conventional economists. The book’s innovative approach aims to provide a better framework with which we can face the predicaments of sustainability issues. It begins by presenting practical examples of the shortcomings of conventional economic analysis and examines the systemic problems faced when trying to use quantitative analysis for governance. In providing a critical appraisal of current applications of economic narratives to the issue of sustainability, the book presents several innovative concepts required to generate a post-Newtonian approach to quantitative analysis in the Musiasem approach. An empirical section illustrates the results of an analysis of structural changes in world and EU countries. Finally, the book, using the insight gained in the theoretical and empirical analysis, exposes the dubious quality of many narratives currently used in the sustainability debate. Overall, the performance of modern economies across different hierarchical levels of organization and across different disciplinary knowledge systems is fully analyzed and a more realistic measure of happiness and well-being is devised. The book should be of interest to researchers and students looking at the issue of sustainability within a variety of disciplines.
Views and Estimates of Committees of the House together with Supplemental and Minority Views on the Congressional Budget for Fiscal Year
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Budget |
ISBN | : PSU:000061128064 |
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Prospects for Alternative Energy Development in the U S West
Author | : John C. Pierce,Brent S. Steel |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017-04-04 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9783319534145 |
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This book poses the question of whether identifiable individual-level attributes (e.g., values, interests, knowledge, demographic characteristics) lead to support for or opposition to the development and implementation of alternative energy technologies. In recent years, attempts to site alternative energy technologies (e.g., wind, solar, wave) have been met by intense opposition from a variety of sources, including many environmentalists from whom one might expect support for non-carbon based renewable energy initiatives. This volume argues that there are indeed such discernible attributes, and moreover that the identification and exploration are important for the development of support strategies for the well-informed and achievable siting of such technologies.
Views and Estimates of the Committee on Science Space and Technology on the Fiscal Year 1993 Budget for Civilian R D
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Federal aid to research |
ISBN | : PSU:000019273570 |
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