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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"energy history"”.
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Peering In: Improving Existing Buildings with Colorful Increments
<p>Existing office buildings’ embodied energy, history and culture offer something a newly constructed building cannot. On the other hand, new office buildings’ adoption of new technologies and building philosophies offer a range of sustainable efficiencies previously unavailable. Combining these …
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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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Crises unwasted: how policy entrepreneurs linked forest biomass to energy security in Colorado, 1998-2013
… At the same time, Coloradans are facing energy security problems from fossil fuel price volatility, unintended consequences from continued fossil fuel dependence, problematic alternative, non-renewable fuel promotions and a struggling renewable energy industry. Subsequently, natural …
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Energy and Ideas of Progress in France and Britain, 1865-1924
… and future in terms of the mobilisation of energy resources. This thesis identifies an emerging ‘energy developmentalism’, which called for maximising energy use to maintain or improve a nation’s place in international competition. Energy developmentalism was not a marginal worldview …
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Výroba energie využívající obnovitelné zdroje
Tato bakálářská práce se zaměřuje na výrobu elektrické energie za pomoci obnovytelných zdrojů. Existuje nespočet faktorů vztahůjících se k obnovitelné energii. Nicméně na tyto aspekty je většinou pohlíženo spíše individuálně, než jako na celek. Tudíž se tato práce pokouší obsáhnout většinu …
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Lighting Up the Darkness: Electrification in Ohio, 1879-1945
… by providing an original work on the history of electrification in Ohio. This thesis makes use of a “case study” approach to examine the topic in a three-stage analytical framework: urban electrification in Cleveland to address the changes in public perception regarding power and the …
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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. …