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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"U.S. Energy"”.
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Greenwashing and misvaluation : evidence from the U.S. energy sector
… carbon emissions and misvaluation in the U.S. energy sector over the period 2010–2023. A two-stage panel regression framework is employed for empirical analysis. The first stage involves estimating a firm’s intrinsic value based on fundamentals, with residuals capturing non-fundamental …
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Evaluating Nuclear Energy as a Component of U.S. Energy Innovation Systems
<p>Nuclear energy is contentious in policy discussions that evaluate its role in the current U.S. clean energy innovation system. OECD nations, on average, have begun to reduce their dependence on nuclear energy. However, the United States has remained invested in its nuclear energy infrastructure …
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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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ESSAYS ON THE MACROECONOMIC IMPACTS OF ENERGY AND COMMODITY MARKETS
… of two essays on the macroeconomic impacts of energy and commodity markets. The first essay studies the effects of U.S. energy shocks on international economic activity and the world oil market. I use a set of factor augmented vector autoregressions to identify and compare the impact of …
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High Temperature Seismic Monitoring for Enhanced Geothermal Systems - Implementing a Control Feedback Loop to a Prototype Tool by Sandia National Laboratories
Geothermal energy can make an important contribution to the U.S. energy portfolio. Production areas require seismic monitoring tools to develop and monitor production capability. This paper describes modifications made to a prototypical seismic tool to implement improvements that were identified …
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Silica micro-encapsulation of organic phase-change materials for thermal energy storage
Renewable energy production and storage are our main levers to fight climate change. As the battery industry struggles to manufacture cheap, cyclable and safe systems, thermal energy storage recently became a more active area of research, promising cheap and cyclable storage materials. In the U.S., …
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A state-level capacity utilization analysis of the U.S. natural gas transmission pipeline system and risk management for a gas-fueled nation
The U.S. energy portfolio is set to undergo drastic change in the coming decades. Policies to reduce emissions combined with growing demand for energy will test existing infrastructure. Large reserves of shale gas provide an attractive near-term solution to help states transition from coal-powered …
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Carbon capture and storage in the U.S. : a sinking climate solution
… Yet, CCS remains a part of future U.S. energy policy because the coal and electric utility industries have funded an attractive message and story for it. Environmental advocacy organizations are unable to create an effective counter-story because they are split into two coalitions. …
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Why did the solar power sector develop quickly in Japan?
… U.S. based on data collected from International Energy Agency's PVPS program, Japan's New Energy Development Organization and the U.S. Energy Information Administration, among other sources.
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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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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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Securing the Future: Critical Materials Policies for the US Energy Transition
… forward industrial policies to support its energy transition with policies like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to develop domestic green-tech supply chains, it overlooks the crucial need for a sustainable and secure supply of critical materials. This oversight threatens the success of the …
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A water and greenhouse gas inventory for hygroscopic and conventional evaporative building-scale cooling systems
… for direct electricity consumption and the energy associated with water and wastewater conveyance and treatment using power plant and cooling system data, municipal water treatment data for California, and fuel-type emissions factors. Water usage was estimated using power plant data and …
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Evolving Paradigms in State-Level Integrated Resource Planning
As global energy systems electrify, long-term planning processes are evolving to allow flexible economic analysis and acknowledge rapid financial and operational transformation. State-level integrated resource planning (IRP) processes allow oversight of long-term electric utility resource planning. …
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Design studies of infrastructural development for applications of hydrogen energy technologies
… around the world are trying to reduce their energy consumption, fossil fuel usage, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to the International Energy Outlook 2012 released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the estimated fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions …
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Terminal Illness: The Political Ecology and Political Economy of the Millennium Bulk Coal Export Terminal, Longview, WA
… demand for coal in the United States (U.S. Energy Information Administration [EIA] 2016) has led to a push by the coal industry for the construction of export terminals in the Pacific Northwest that would supply coal from the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming to Asia. Though none of …
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Numerical analyses of the long term behavior of enhanced geothermal system (EGS)
… but expected to significantly contribute to U.S. energy in near future. This technology is still going through a steep learning phase and current research studies are mostly focused on reservoir performance and initial stages of the EGS. The main focus of this research is to gain a better …
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The socioeconomic consequences of the U.S. fracking boom
… with the technological breakthroughs in the U.S. energy landscape. The dissertation combines econometric methods with spatial techniques to identify the externalities in water and energy transport arising from the recent shale energy boom. The three essays focus on various aspects of influences on …
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