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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Energy crisis"”.
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The California energy crisis and cogeneration investment opportunities for office landlords
… eight months, California has been beset by an energy crisis. An inadequate supply of electricity has not been able to keep up with the growing demand. Vital transmission lines are operating at or near capacity. The installation of cogeneration systems into office buildings can play an important …
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Adjustments in a farm business in response to an energy crisis
… corn tillage in all cases, except when energy prices were increased by 50, 75, and 100 percent. At these higher energy price increases, since conventional corn tillage had lower energy costs per unit of feed produced, conventional corn tillage was more profitable. Quantities and costs of …
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Energy Crisis and Opportunity: Energy Development and Debate in Saskatchewan, 1969–1982
The 1970s energy crisis was a global phenomenon that opened a window of opportunity to debate the future of energy development. With the future of oil appearing uncertain, nations around the world faced questions about energy security and interest in a wide array of energy alternatives was piqued. …
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Meeting the Energy Crisis: A Case Study of Wyoming Energy Resource Producers
The process of energy resource development is currently undergoing a crisis of legitimation, with both developers and critics attempting to gain consensus on a particular definition of social reality. This struggle for the dominant definition of reality, and hence for the power to determine the …
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Remembering Energic Connectivities: Appropriate Technology and Domestic Infrastructure in the Energy Crisis
… Grants Program, an oft-forgotten chapter of U.S. energy history, shows us how small-scale, place-based inventors transformed homes and neighborhoods into converters and conductors of nearby flows and potentials. At the height of the energy crisis of the 1970s, these inventors pursued a distributed …
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The role of tax incentives in addressing the energy crisis in South Africa
… the role of tax incentives in addressing the energy crisis in South Africa. Tax incentives have the potential of correcting market failures by promoting investments in the electricity sector. Incentives that are well designed and easy to administer can be effective in addressing the energy …
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Rural Energy Development: Are Mini-grids the solution to East Africa's Energy Crisis
… Africa continue to grow, the demand for modern energy will correspondingly increase. The current energy policy and limited overall access rate is not prepared for this massive demand increases and presents a major hindrance to country growth potential. This thesis focuses on the countries in …
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Modeling the effect of the energy crisis on air quality in the Po Valley, Italy.
This thesis investigates the impact of the energy crisis on air quality in the Po Valley, Italy, with a focus on the effect of changes in methane consumption over the potential changes in wood burn ing consumption. The study employs the WRF-CHIMERE model to simulate the consequences of varying wood …
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Global Capitalism and the Energy Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities Associated with a Transition to Renewables
… have provided a cheap and efficient source of energy. Reliance on fossil fuels, especially oil, supported economic growth under capitalism but also has led to climate change. As peak oil approaches, a transition towards renewable sources of energy is mandatory for ensuring future prospects of …
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Design and performance evaluation of lead-free inorganic perovskite solar cells for addressing Nigeria's energy crisis.
… with over 200 million people, faces a critical energy deficit, with approximately 45% of its population lacking access to electricity. To achieve energy sustainability, the country requires 160 GW of electricity. However, reliance on crude oil and natural-gas-fired power plants, which are often …
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Collective intelligence at Enron during the California energy crisis : uncovering collaborative innovation networks using social network analysis
As interaction takes place between individuals, relationships are formed and collaboration and innovation emerge. In this thesis I have applied Coolfarming (Gloor, 201 lb), a social network analysis method using Condor, a software tool to quantify communication patterns based on various data …
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Benchmarking Residential Electricity Consumption: A Utility’s Machine Learning Approach to Smart Metering Data and the European Energy Crisis
The European Energy Crisis is putting increasing pressure on the global energy supply and the residential sector is a key sector with variable consumption patterns that accounts for 40% of global energy consumption and residential buildings accounting for 27% of global energy consumption [32]. We …
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A Monte Carlo Analysis of Cost Competitiveness of Chinese and U.S. Fine Chemical Exports to Europe Under Europe’s Energy Crisis
<p>The European energy crisis, driven by geopolitical conflicts, has created a significant supply-demand gap in Europe’s fine chemical sector, necessitating reliance on imports from the United States and China. This quantitative study examined how energy, labor, and logistics costs interacted to …
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The 'Other' Energy Crisis and Economic Development: The Role of Noncommercial Fuels in Indian Subsistence Agriculture (Fuelwood, Biogas, Household Production Resources; India)
A neglected aspect in the study of energy and economic development in LDCs is the role of noncommercial fuels, such as fuelwood, dung and crop wastes, in the subsistence household's decision-making process. This dissertation has attempted to redress this deficiency and in the process fill the gap …
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Methods of Energy Recovery in the Iron and Steel Industry: Evalution of New Possibilities and Design Studies for Slab Cooling
The Worid energy crisis was brought to a head by the formation of the oi] cartel (OPEC) and its collective action in 1973/1974 to quadruple oil prices. The days of cheap and abundant energy sources came to an abrupt end. The immediate energy crisis was absorbed by the strong economies of the major …
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The Oil Weapon Moment: The 1973 Oil Embargo and its Impacts on U.S. Energy Politics
… of the 1973 Arab petrostate oil embargo on U.S. energy politics. I argue that the embargo was the moment that transformed oil from a domestic and highly regulated commodity into a matter of national security and competitive geopolitics. While its likelihood was foreseen by the Nixon …
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Energy-efficient, innovative housing: a comparison of probable adopters and nonadopters
… to the probable adoption or nonadoption of energy-efficient housing alternatives, specifically passive and active solar and earth sheltered/underground dwellings. Three types of factors were examined: demographics (geographical location by state, type of household, stage in family life …
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Copper Chloride Electrolyzer For the Production of Hydrogen Via the Copper-Chlorine Thermochemical Cycle
… considered a key element in solving the upcoming energy crisis, it is not the primary fuel source but an 'energy carrier' similar to electricity and has to be produced using some other hydrogen rich source. Thermochemical water decomposition is a promising alternative to steam-methane reforming …
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A model of the aluminum industry in the United States
The energy crisis, the high capital requirements and the high price of the raw materials are critically affecting the short and long run decisions of the aluminum industry in the United States. To study the effect of these and other factors in the optimal development of the industry, a time dynamic …
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