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[2020]
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"Recent changes in the global production and flow of energy have remade the world. In this book, the author reveals the forces shaping the future of energy, both renewable and fossil fuel. The New Map offers a new vision of the world's energy reserves and, therefore, the future of geopolitics"--
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In the ever more urgent quest for sources of renewable energy, meet the man boldly harnessing the natural forces that could power America's future.
The United States is in the midst of an energy transition. We want to embrace renewable energy sources like wind and solar, and rely less on dirty fossil fuels. We don't want to keep pumping so many heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. Any transition from a North American power grid that uses mostly...
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2022.
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English
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"An engaging, accessible citizen's guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate-and how we can hold our governments accountable for putting these plans into action. Dozens of kids in Montgomery County, Maryland, agitated until their school board committed to electric school buses. Mothers in Colorado turned up in front of an obscure state panel to fight for clean air. If you think the only thing you can do to...
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2010
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English
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"A groundbreaking, in-depth, and authoritative twenty-year history of the hunt and speculation for our most vital natural resource...The story of oil is a story of high stakes and extreme risk. It is the story of the crushing rivalries between men and women exploring for oil five miles beneath the sea, battling for control of the world's biggest corporations, and gambling billions of dollars twenty-four hours every day on oil's prices. It is the story...
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In Keeping the Lights On at America's Nuclear Power Plants, Jeremy Carl and David Fedor discuss the decline of American nuclear power in light of major economic, technological and political challenges. They show how high costs, low public support, and popular clean energy trends threaten America's near- and long-term nuclear viability. American nuclear power plants are closing at a historically unprecedented pace, and there's little evidence of public...
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New York Times bestselling author, former Speaker of the House, and Fox News political analyst and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has a plan for slashing gas prices and reducing our long-term dependence on foreign oil.
Gingrich is famous for taking big, visionary ideas and boiling them down into practical solutions for the American people and in his new book, $2.50 A Gallon: Why Obama Is Wrong and Cheap Gas Is Possible, Gingrich...
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Por qué la energía renovable será un factor de riqueza extraordinario para la península ibérica.
El modelo energético fósil ha acelerado su decadencia tras la crisis de Ucrania. Hay consenso mundial en la apuesta por las energías renovables como solución clave frente a la emergencia climática, el precio de la luz y la dictadura del gas.
El nuevo sistema energético será predominantemente renovable, incluirá baterías y permitirá electrificar...
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This publication focuses on the strategic investment priorities of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the energy sector of Cambodia. It highlights sector performance, priority development constraints, government plans and strategies, and ADB's past and future support. The sector assessment, strategy, and road map is aligned with ADB's Strategy 2030 and will inform its country partnership strategy for Cambodia, 2019–2023, which is currently under...
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Français
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Une analyse critique de la gestion et de l'exploitation des sources d'énergie au XXIe siècle.
Chauffage, éclairage, mobilité, alimentation, production de biens et de services... l'énergie est à chaque instant au cœur des activités humaines. Le contrle de sa production, de sa diffusion et de sa distribution est hautement stratégique. Source de conflits, voire de guerres, l'exploitation et la consommation énergétique sont très inégalitaires,...
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2016.
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"The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components. In entertaining,...
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Adani's license to mine 60 million tonnes of coal for 60 years threatens Australia's precious ancient source of groundwater in the Galillee Basin, a vast underground water reservoir, part of the Great Artesian Basin, occupying more than 20% of Australia. How could a company with a globally disastrous reputation for environmental destruction along with a dubious financial status woo an Australian Prime Minister, a State Premier and a handful of regional...
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After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain-went from being among the world's poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs provide their subjects with boundless cheap energy, unwittingly leading to some of the highest consumption rates on earth. Today, as summertime temperatures set new records,...
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As the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the risks to our infrastructure are multiplying. Whether it's a hostile state striking the national grid (like Russia did with Ukraine in 2016) or a freak solar storm, our systems have become so interlinked that if one part goes down the rest topple like dominoes.
In this groundbreaking book, former government minister Oliver Letwin looks ten years into the future...
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Este libro explica la reforma energética de 2013-2014 en México, proporciona un análisis de las causas del alza de la gasolina, electricidad y gas, así como de la actual debacle de PEMEX y de la CFE.
Con un lenguaje sencillo, el autor reflexiona sobre el futuro del sector energético y del desarrollo del país, proporcionando una visión integral de los principales aspectos económicos, políticos, jurídicos, históricos y sociales de esta reforma.
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Microgrids are poised to play a big role in the electricity ecosystem of the future-with decarbonization, digitalization, decentralization, and non-wires solutions being key attributes. This handbook serves as a guide to evaluate the feasibility of microgrid systems in enhancing power supply quality and connectivity. It includes information about on-grid microgrids for urban and industrial applications, prevailing business models, and emerging trends...
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The latest energy sector assessment, strategy, and road map for Viet Nam highlights energy sector performance, major development constraints, and government development plans and strategy. The report highlights previous support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and other development partners, and ADB's future support strategy in Viet Nam's energy sector. The assessment, strategy, and road map will add on to ADB's 2016–2020 country partnership...
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La pandemia de covid-19 es una tragedia de alcance aún incierto, pero sin duda significó un breve respiro en nuestra demencial tendencia a consumir cada vez más energía. Desde hace décadas, la adicción de las sociedades a los combustibles fósiles apunta a un desenlace catastrófico, por lo que el leve remanso que se produjo al disminuir la actividad económica a nivel planetario debe hacernos conscientes de que hemos llegado a la hora de la...
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Face aux catastrophes annoncées, aux risques d'effondrements et aux désarrois qu'ils suscitent, est apparu en France une «bataille des récits» o s'entremêlent études scientifiques, travaux de vulgarisation, mais également communautés et collectifs affinitaires Les «grands récits» des XIXe etXXe siècles ayant fait faillite, il est courant d'entendre aujourd'hui que de nouveaux récits collectifs doivent émerger. Ils répondraient aux...
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