Bright Moves

Bright Moves
Author: Thomas J. Flaherty
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2023-04-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A comprehensive look at how utilities are driving clean energy innovation With Bright Moves, expert utilities consultant Tom Flaherty examines the past, present, and future of innovation in the utilities industry. He explores the complexities of what it truly means to innovate, considers the past and current disruptors driving innovation, and discusses the role of research and development in how utilities need to approach their businesses in an era of technology and market disruption. The book includes detailed profiles of today’s top innovators to illustrate: • What types of challenges utilities face today • How successful innovation requires intentional and consequential actions • How utilities are rapidly evolving toward broader and more innovative thinking • Why more commercialization is the way forward for the utilities sector ​These innovators pave exemplary pathways for start-ups and long-established companies alike as they navigate the cleantech transition and other developments. Bright Moves is for innovators in all fields—but especially utilities leadership, business executives from companies engaging utilities, start-up leaders, and other innovation professionals who are driven to succeed in a demanding and quickly changing global economy.

The Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project
Author: Francis George Gosling
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 75
Release: 1999
Genre: Atomic bomb
ISBN: 0788178806

A history of the origins and development of the American atomic bomb program during WWII. Begins with the scientific developments of the pre-war years. Details the role of the U.S. government in conducting a secret, nationwide enterprise that took science from the laboratory and into combat with an entirely new type of weapon. Concludes with a discussion of the immediate postwar period, the debate over the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, and the founding of the Atomic Energy Commission. Chapters: the Einstein letter; physics background, 1919-1939; early government support; the atomic bomb and American strategy; and the Manhattan district in peacetime. Illustrated.

Alternative Energy

Alternative Energy
Author: Christopher A. Simon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2020-01-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1538116383

The second edition of Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility builds on the first edition, but with significant updates on dramatic changes within the renewable energy sector over the last decade. Christopher Simon discusses the basic technical aspects of major renewable energy systems and technological developments and considers the impact of politics on energy policy using contemporary theories of public policy—such as, Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), Punctuated Equilibrium (PE), Narrative Policy Framework, and Policy Diffusion—as well as discussing the evolution of the social feasibility of renewable energy. The author expands his discussion of alternative energy solutions to consider nuclear power developments and feasibility in the post-Fukushima policy environment. International commitment to renewable energy is also addressed.

A Historical Guide to the U.S. Government

A Historical Guide to the U.S. Government
Author: George Thomas Kurian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 776
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

This volume "presents a composite profile of the U.S.-government through a history of the various departments and agencies that constitute it."--Preface, p. [vii].