The Dirty Energy Dilemma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dirty Energy Dilemma write by Benjamin K. Sovacool. This book was released on 2008-10-30. The Dirty Energy Dilemma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The American electric utility system is quietly falling apart. Once taken for granted, the industry has become increasingly unstable, fragmented, unreliable, insecure, inefficient, expensive, and harmful to our environment and public health. According to Sovacool, the fix for this ugly array of problems lies not in nuclear power or clean coal, but in renewable energy systems that produce few harmful byproducts, relieve congestion on the transmission grid, require less maintenance, are not subject to price volatility, and enhance the security of the national energy system from natural catastrophe, terrorist attack, and dependence on supply from hostile and unstable regions of the world. Here arises The Dirty Energy Dilemma: If renewable energy systems deliver such impressive benefits, why are they languishing at the margins of the American energy portfolio? And why does the United States lag so far behind Europe, where conversion to renewable energy systems has already taken off in a big way? Corporate media parrot industry PR that renewable technologies just aren't ready for prime time. But Sovacool marshals extensive field research to show that the only barrier blocking the conversion of a significant proportion of the U.S. energy portfolio to renewables is not technological—the technology is there—but institutional. Public utility commissioners, utility managers, system operators, business owners, and ordinary consumers are hobbled by organizational conservatism, technical incompatibility, legal inertia, weak and inconsistent political incentives, ill-founded prejudices, and apathy. The author argues that significant conversion to technologically proven clean energy systems can happen only if we adopt and implement a whole new set of policies that will target and dismantle the insidious social barriers that are presently blocking decisions that would so obviously benefit society.
The Energy Dilemma
The Energy Dilemma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Energy Dilemma write by Jared Keen. This book was released on 2003. The Energy Dilemma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the energy crisis on a global scale, covering the environmental, social, political, and economic implications of dependence on non-renewable energy sources.
The Dirty Energy Dilemma Via Financial Development and Economic Globalization in Pakistan
The Dirty Energy Dilemma Via Financial Development and Economic Globalization in Pakistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dirty Energy Dilemma Via Financial Development and Economic Globalization in Pakistan write by Muhammad Tariq. This book was released on 2018. The Dirty Energy Dilemma Via Financial Development and Economic Globalization in Pakistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Energy policy has been important strand in the view of economists in achieving rapid development process of any country. Recent wave of globalization exert pressure on energy consumption via financial development and ultimately vindicates economic growth. The study has covered the period of 1976-2015 using annual data for the empirical analysis and constructed a growth equation as the main equation and the energy consumption equation as a channel equation. The empirical investigation has been undertaken by performing Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) techniques. The result of bound tests suggested that there is long run relationship in both channels. In long run energy consumption and economic globalization has significant positive effect on economic growth whereas the financial development has no effect on the economic growth of Pakistan. Long run results of channel equation suggests that increasing price of crude oil leads to decrease in energy consumption and the increasing imports of energy products and increasing urbanization are conducive for energy consumption in Pakistan. On the basis of NARDL model, our empirical findings provide strong support for the presence of asymmetric co-integration relationship among underlying variables of study.
Climate Change and Global Energy Security
Climate Change and Global Energy Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climate Change and Global Energy Security write by Marilyn A. Brown. This book was released on 2011-08-12. Climate Change and Global Energy Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of commercially available technologies that can enhance energy security and address climate change and public policy options crucial to their adoption. Tackling climate change and improving energy security are two of the twenty-first century's greatest challenges. In this book, Marilyn Brown and Benjamin Sovacool offer detailed assessments of the most advanced commercially available technologies for strengthening global energy security, mitigating the effects of climate change, and enhancing resilience through adaptation and geo-engineering. They also evaluate the barriers to the deployment of these technologies and critically review public policy options crucial to their adoption. Arguing that society has all the technologies necessary for the task, Brown and Sovacool discuss an array of options available today, including high-efficiency transportation, renewable energy, carbon sequestration, and demand-side management. They offer eight case studies from around the world that document successful approaches to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and improving energy security. These include the Danish approach to energy policy and wind power, Brazil's ethanol program, China's improved cookstove program; and the U.S. Toxics Release Inventory. Brown and Sovacool argue that meeting the twin challenges of climate change and energy security will allow us to provide energy, maintain economic growth, and preserve the natural environment—without forcing tradeoffs among them.
Ending Dirty Energy Policy
Ending Dirty Energy Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ending Dirty Energy Policy write by Dean Emeritus and the Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law Joseph P Tomain. This book was released on 2014-05-14. Ending Dirty Energy Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that the United States will not adequately address climate change until it transforms its fossil fuel energy policy.
