Electrification
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Author | : Saul Griffith |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0262046237 |
An optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything. Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith’s plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future. Griffith, an engineer and inventor, calls for grid neutrality, ensuring that households, businesses, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world, mobilize industry as we did in World War II, and offer low-interest “climate loans.” Griffith’s plan doesn’t rely on big, not-yet-invented innovations, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses—but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis, there is no other project that would create as many jobs—up to twenty-five million, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else.
Author | : Pami Aalto |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-08-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0128221437 |
Electrification: Accelerating the Energy Transition offers a widely applicable framework to delineate context-sensitive pathways by which this transition can be accelerated and lists the types of processes and structures that may hinder progress towards this goal. The framework draws insights from well-established literature, ranging from technological studies to socio-technical studies of energy transitions, on to strategic niche management approaches, (international) political economy approaches, and institutionalist literatures, while also adopting wider social theoretical ideas from structuration theory. Contributors discuss a multitude of case studies drawn from global examples of electrification projects. Brief case studies and text boxes help users further understand this domain and the technological, infrastructural and societal structures that may exercise significant powers. Proposes a globally applicable, inclusive framework linking together several literatures of energy transition research (ranging from the social sciences to law and engineering) Assesses the regional and national applicability of solutions, covering the societal structures and interests that shape the prospects of their implementation Extends the analysis from technological and infrastructural solutions to the policies required to accelerate transition Introduces several country level case studies, thus demonstrating how to harness niches of innovation, kick-start the adoption of a solution, and make it mainstream
Author | : Thomas Parke Hughes |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1993-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780801846144 |
Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, this book offers a comparative history of the evolution of modern electric power systems. It described large-scale technological change and demonstrates that technology cannot be understood unless placed in a cultural context.
Author | : David E. Nye |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Electrification |
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Explores how electricity seeped into and redefined American culture, becoming fundamental to modern life.
Author | : Ronen Shamir |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2013-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804788685 |
Whether buried underfoot or strung overhead, electrical lines are omnipresent. Not only are most societies dependent on electrical infrastructure, but this infrastructure actively shapes electrified society. From the wires, poles, and generators themselves to the entrepreneurs, engineers, politicians, and advisors who determine the process of electrification, our electrical grids can create power—and politics—just as they transmit it. Current Flow examines the history of electrification of British-ruled Palestine in the 1920s, as it marked, affirmed, and produced social, political, and economic difference between Arabs and Jews. Considering the interplay of British colonial interests, the Jewish-Zionist leanings of a commissioned electric company, and Arab opposition within the case of the Jaffa Power House, Ronen Shamir reveals how electrification was central in assembling a material infrastructure of ethno-national separation in Palestine long before "political partition plans" had ever been envisioned. Ultimately, Current Flow sheds new light on the history of Jewish-Arab relations and offers broader sociological insights into what happens when people are transformed from users into elements of networks.
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Total Pages | : 826 |
Release | : 1994 |
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1946-03 |
Genre | : Rural electrification |
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Author | : United States. Rural Electrification Administration |
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Total Pages | : 812 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry |
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Total Pages | : 2220 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Rural electrification |
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Author | : A.J. Manson |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5871679323 |
Railroad electrification and the electric locomotive outline of principles involved in railroad electrification. A comparison of steam and electric locomotives. History of electrification in United States. Data on electrification in America, Europe and Australia.