Canada’s Energy History

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-70
Author(s):  
John Erik Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Energy History

World-Ecological Satire: Peat, Brian O'Nolan, and the Irish Free State's Energy Regime

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-104
Author(s):  
Robert Kiely
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Energy Regime ◽  
Energy History ◽  
History Of ◽  
External Site ◽  
Ecological Relations ◽  
Nature And Society ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
The Relationship

A world-ecological perspective of cultural production refuses a dualist conception of nature and society – which imagines nature as an external site of static outputs  – and instead foregrounds the fact that human and extra-human natures are completely intertwined. This essay seeks to reinterpret the satirical writing of a canonical figure within the Irish literary tradition, Brian O'Nolan, in light of the energy history of Ireland, understood as co-produced by both human actors and biophysical nature. How does the energy imaginary of O'Nolan's work refract and mediate the Irish environment and the socio-ecological relations shaping the fuel supply-chains that power the Irish energy regime dominant under the Irish Free State? I discuss the relationship between peat as fuel and Brian O'Nolan's pseudonymous newspaper columns, and indicate how questions about energy regimes and ecology can lead us to read his Irish language novel An Béal Bocht [The Poor Mouth] (1941) in a new light. The moments I select and analyze from O'Nolan's output feature a kind of satire that exposes the folly of separating society from nature, by presenting an exaggerated form of the myth of nature as an infinite resource.

Energy foresight, scenarios and sustainable energy policy in Brazil

foresight ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 535-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Horner ◽  
Antonio Geraldo de Paula Oliveira ◽  
Richard Silberglitt ◽  
Marcelo Khaled Poppe ◽  
Bárbara Bressan Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Carbon Efficiency ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Ghg Reduction ◽  
Energy History ◽  
Carbon Performance

Purpose This paper aims to use quantitative metrics to chart the unique history leading to Brazil’s leadership in renewable energy and identifies a set of meta-scenarios that define possible future carbon performance. These meta-scenarios provide a context for discussing specific energy policy implications both at the national scale and from the perspective of Brazil’s urban centres. Design/methodology/approach The paper defines and uses three metrics – energy efficiency, decarbonisation and carbon efficiency – to plot both Brazil’s historic energy pathway and a set of future energy scenarios put forth by various national and international energy agencies. The authors then use a meta-scenario approach to group these alternate pathways, identifying specific policy levers associated with the realisation of each. Findings The authors identify plausible policy changes that will help move Brazil off a current trajectory of stagnated energy performance to a “greener” scenario in which carbon efficiency improves even as Brazil’s economic growth continues. Such policies include energy efficiency programmes and continued expansion of the country’s already extensive hydropower and biomass capacity. Adoption of policies that would put Brazil on a more aggressive path towards a global sustainability scenario currently seems impractical. Originality/value This paper brings a standardized set of metrics to bear on Brazil’s unique energy history, which in turn helps identify specific policy impacts for continued GHG reduction in Brazil’s future from national and urban perspectives.

Wind Energy, History of

2004 ◽  
pp. 419-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin J. Pasqualetti ◽  
Robert Righter ◽  
Paul Gipe
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Energy History ◽  
History Of

Conservation Measures for Energy, History of

2004 ◽  
pp. 649-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Gibbons ◽  
Holly L. Gwin
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Measures ◽  
Energy History ◽  
History Of

Prices of Energy, History of

2004 ◽  
pp. 135-143
Author(s):  
Peter Berck ◽  
Michael J. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Energy History ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Particle-in-cell simulation of two stream instability in the non-extensive statistics

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ghorbanalilu ◽  
Elahe Abdollahzadeh ◽  
S.H. Ebrahimnazhad Rahbari
Keyword(s):  
Electron Beams ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Electrostatic Waves ◽  
Pic Simulation ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Energy History ◽  
Energy Conserving ◽  
Cell Simulation ◽  
Electron Holes ◽  
Stream Instability

AbstractWe have performed extensive one dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations to explore generation of electrostatic waves driven by two-stream instability (TSI) that arises due to the interaction between two symmetric counterstreaming electron beams. The electron beams are considered to be cold, collisionless and magnetic-field-free in the presence of neutralizing background of static ions. Here, electrons are described by the non-extensive q-distributions of the Tsallis statistics. Results shows that the electron holes structures are different for various q values such that: (i) for q > 1 cavitation of electron holes are more visible and the excited waves were more strong (ii) for q < 1 the degree of cavitation decreases and for q = 0.5 the holes are not distinguishable. Furthermore, time development of the velocity root-mean-square (VRMS) of electrons for different q-values demonstrate that the maximum energy conversion is increased upon increasing the non-extensivity parameter q up to the values q > 1. The normalized total energy history for a arbitrary entropic index q = 1.5, approves the energy conserving in our PIC simulation.

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