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More and more and more : an all-consuming history of energy
Using a fascinating array of examples, Fressoz describes how we have gorged on all forms of energy - with whole forests needed to prop up coal mines, coal remaining central to the creation of innumerable new products and oil still central to our lives. The world now burns more wood and coal than ever before. This book reveals an uncomfortable truth: 'transition' was originally itself promoted by energy companies, not as a genuine plan, but as a means to put off any meaningful change. 'More and More and More' forces its readers to understand the modern world in all its voracious reality, and the true nature of the challenges heading our way.
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Carbon Sovereignty
For almost fifty years, coal dominated the Navajo economy. But in
2019 one of the Navajo Nation's largest coal plants closed. This
comprehensive new work offers a deep dive into the complex inner
workings of energy shift in the Navajo Nation. Geographer Andrew
Curley, a member of the Navajo Nation, examines the history of coal
development within the Navajo Nation, including why some Diné
supported coal and the consequences of doing so. He explains the
Navajo Nation's strategic choices to use the coal industry to
support its sovereignty as a path forward in the face of ongoing
colonialism. Carbon Sovereignty demonstrates the mechanism
of capitalism through colonialism and the construction of resource
sovereignty, in both the Navajo Nation's embrace and its rejection
of a coal economy. For the people of the Navajo Nation, energy
sovereignty is dire and personal. Thanks to on-the-ground
interviews with Diné coal workers, environmental activists, and
politicians, Curley documents the real consequences of change as
they happened. While some Navajo actors have doubled down for coal,
others have moved toward transition. Curley argues that political
struggles ultimately shape how we should understand coal,
capitalism, and climate change. The rise and fall of coal magnify
the nuance and complexity of change. Historical and contemporary
issues intermingle in everyday life with lasting consequences.
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Energy transitions in the Middle East : challenges and opportunities
How do Middle East energy transitions fit into international energy markets? In this book, energy analysts, geopolitical experts and specialists of political economy examine the new energy potential in the Middle East. The particular focus surrounds how the region's access to finance, combined with the new global regulations and considerations of economic development, shape the region's energy transitions overall. The Middle East is revealed to be a key site of new energy production, sharing and transmission as well as technology innovation. At the same time, the authors examine the variables that determine the success in each country and energy source, including the advantages that hydrocarbon producers will have in renewables and transition fuels, and the risk that these might slow down the energy transition overall.
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An empirical analysis of the non-linear impacts of ICT-trade openness on renewable energy transition, energy efficiency, clean cooking fuel access and environmental sustainability in South Asia
Energy security and environmental sustainability have become an integral policy agenda worldwide whereby the global economic growth policies are being restructured to ensure the reliability of energy supply and safeguard environmental well-being as well. However, technological inefficiency is one of the major hindrances in attaining these over-arching goals. Hence, this paper probed into the non-linear impacts of ICT trade on the prospects of undergoing renewable energy transition, improving energy use efficiencies, enhancing access to cleaner cooking fuels, and mitigating carbon dioxide emissions across selected South Asian economies: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Maldives. The results from the econometric analyses reveal that ICT trade directly increases renewable energy consumption, enhances renewable energy shares, reduces intensity of energy use, facilitates adoption of cleaner cooking fuels, and reduces carbon-dioxide emissions. Moreover, ICT trade also indirectly mitigates carbon-dioxide emissions through boosting renewable energy consumption levels, improving energy efficiencies, and enhancing cleaner cooking fuel access. Hence, these results, in a nutshell, portray the significance of reducing the barriers to ICT trade with respect to ensuring energy security and environmental sustainability across South Asia. Therefore, it is ideal for the government to gradually lessen the trade barriers to boost the volumes of cross-border flows of green ICT commodities. Besides, it is also recommended to attract foreign direct investments for the potential development of the respective ICT sectors of the South Asian economies.
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Energy Poverty and Low Carbon Just Energy Transition
EU has set ambitious commitment to achieve low carbon energy and economy transition up to 2050. This low carbon transition means sustainable energy development path based on renewable energy sources and first of all should address the energy poverty vulnerability and justice issues. The main goal of the paper is to develop indicators framework for assessing low carbon just energy transition and to apply this framework for analysis how climate change mitigation policies in households targeting enhancement of energy renovation of residential buildings and promotion of the use of micro-generation technologies and other policies are affecting household’s energy poverty and vulnerability in selected countries: Lithuania and Greece. This framework allows to assess three main dimensions of sustainable energy development: environmental, social and economic. The paper provides policy recommendations how to deal with just low carbon energy transition which means addressing energy poverty issues during moving to 100% renewables in power generation based on performed case studies.
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Uncertain futures : how to unlock the climate impasse
\"Why is it hard to solve the climate crisis, and what can we do? This book answers these questions, which are of interest to the public, academics, and businesspeople. Using stories from the front lines of the energy transition, we show how to unlock the climate impasse\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Carbon mineralization with concurrent critical metal recovery from olivine
Carbon dioxide utilization for enhanced metal recovery (EMR) during mineralization has been recently developed as part of CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and storage). This paper describes fundamental studies on integrating CO₂ mineralization and concurrent selective metal extraction from natural olivine. Nearly 90% of nickel and cobalt extraction and mineral carbonation efficiency are achieved in a highly selective, singlestep process. Direct aqueous mineral carbonation releases Ni2+ and Co2+ into aqueous solution for subsequent recovery, while Mg2+ and Fe2+ simultaneously convert to stable mineral carbonates for permanent CO₂ storage. This integrated process can be completed in neutral aqueous solution. Introduction of a metal-complexing ligand during mineral carbonation aids the highly selective extraction of Ni and Co over Fe and Mg. The ligand must have higher stability for Ni-/Co- complex ions compared with the Fe(II)-/Mg- complex ions and divalent metal carbonates. This single-step process with a suitable metal-complexing ligand is robust and utilizes carbonation processes under various kinetic regimes. This fundamental study provides a framework for further development and successful application of direct aqueous mineral carbonation with concurrent EMR. The enhanced metal extraction and CO₂ mineralization process may have implications for the clean energy transition, CO₂ storage and utilization, and development of new critical metal resources.
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Role of dams and reservoirs in a successful energy transition : proceedings of the 12th ICOLD European Club Symposium 2023 (ECS 2023, Interlaken, Switzerland, 5-8 September 2023)
Covers various themes related to Europe's existing and future dam projects: dams and reservoirs for hydropower in Europe; dams and reservoirs for climate change adaptation in Europe; impact mitigation of dams and reservoirs in Europe; and how to deal with ageing dams in Europe.
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Pore‐Scale Modeling of Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Transport During Geologic Gas Storage
Geologic storage of CO2 and H2 are climate‐positive techniques for meeting the energy transition. While similar formations could be considered for both gases, the flow dynamics could differ due to differences in their thermophysical properties. We conduct a rigorous pore‐scale study of water/CO2 and water/H2 systems at relevant reservoir conditions in a Bentheimer rock sample using the lattice Boltzmann method to quantify the effects of capillary, viscous, inertial, and wetting forces during gas invasion. At similar conditions, H2 invasion is weaker compared to CO2 due to unfavorable viscosity ratios. Increasing flow rate, however, increases the breakthrough saturation for both gas systems in the range of capillary numbers studied. At isolated conditions of flow rate, viscosity ratio, and wettability, local inertial effects are found to be critical and show consistent increase in the invaded gas saturation. The effect of inertial forces persits for both gases across all field conditions tested. Plain Language Summary We present a numerical investigation at the pore‐scale to contrast the dynamics of fluid transport for water/CO2 and water/H2 systems at reservoir conditions. Understanding such dynamics is critical to evaluate the feasibility of the geologic storage of these gases (long‐term storage of CO2 and short‐term, periodic storage of H2), which are being researched as green techniques for mitigating climate change. Through a systematic analysis, we demonstrate the importance of pore‐scale mechanisms like local inertial effects which are not well studied in the literature. These effects cause fast fluid motion and consistently allow more fluid to be injected in the rock independently from the other physical effects. Such effects should be carefully accounted for when modeling these systems for large‐scale gas storage. Key Points At similar reservoir conditions, invasion of H2 is found to be weaker as opposed to CO2 due to unfavorable viscosity ratios Among the tested reservoir scenarios, P/T conditions for the saline aquifer provided the largest amount of invaded gas until breakthrough Local inertial effects control the dynamics of the invading gas across different wettability, viscosity ratios, and capillary numbers
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