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Today, Qatar is among the world's wealthiest countries. Its rich hydrocarbon resources have transformed this small Gulf state into an energy powerhouse, funded its outsized global ambitions, and allowed it to forge an identity separate from those of its large and powerful neighbors.
Drawing on Michael D. Tusiani's firsthand accounts and deep personal experience in the energy sector and Anne-Marie Johnson's years of reporting, this book explores how...
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Grid-level energy storage is likely to dominate the conversation in the power industry in the coming years, just like renewable energy did in the past 2 decades. This report targets investors, developers, utility planners, power sector policy makers, and readers who wish to understand the role energy storage is likely to play in the smart grid of the future. For developing countries, the report provides an introduction to the necessary technical background...
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Set in the aftermath of China's entry into the World Trade Organization, Disaggregating China, Inc. questions the extent to which the liberal internationalist promise of membership has been fulfilled in China. Yeling Tan unpacks the policies that various Chinese government actors adopted in response to WTO rules and shows that rather than disciplining the state, WTO entry provoked a divergence of policy responses across different parts of the complex...
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This book is intended to outline an approach for the Republican party to take to prepare for 2020 and 2024. It presents a proposal for the Republican party to assume the mantle of the Common-Sense party, begin an adult to adult conversation with Millennials and perhaps prevent a war. Today a generational conflict is looming, but it isn't a physical conflict. It is a battle of ideologies, the inherent, inalienable right of Individual Freedom enshrined...
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This report defines the concept of district cooling and summarizes its benefits and challenges then presents technologies used in the process---including stand-alone as well as integrated or cogeneration (or even trigeneration) solutions. It also discusses business models followed in the district cooling sector and considers the financial feasibility of district cooling projects and goes over the various regulations regarding district cooling. The...
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From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more prosperous, aiming to begin a new type of conversation on the issue that will spur bolder action by cities, businesses, and citizens-and even, someday, by Washington.
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Fossil fuel energy is the lifeblood of the modern world. Before the Industrial Revolution, humanity depended on burning wood and candle wax. But with the ability to harness the energy in oil and other fossil fuels, quality of life and capacity for progress increased exponentially. Thanks to incredible innovations in the energy industry, fossil fuels are as promising, safe, and clean an energy resource as has ever existed in history. Yet, highly politicized...
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Climate change was political long before Al Gore first started talking about it. In the 1970s, the Swedish Social Democrats used global warming to get political support for building a string of nuclear power stations. It was the second phase of their war on coal, which began with the acid rain scare and the first big UN environment conference in Stockholm in 1969.
Acid rain swept all before it. America held out for as long as Ronald Reagan was in...
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This publication provides guidance on how governments and utilities in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) can develop sustainable power development plans based on current international best practices. It outlines how the integration of strategic environmental assessments to an integrated resource planning approach can enable power development plans to explore or better manage renewable energy sources efficiently. It also discusses the benefits and...
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When rolling blackouts come to the electric grid, they will be old news to the grid insiders.
Only the electricity customers will be surprised.
Grid insiders know how fragile the grid is becoming. Unfortunately, they have no incentive to solve the problems, because near misses increase their profits.
Meredith Angwin describes how closed meetings, arcane auction rules, and five-minute planning horizons will topple the reliability of our electric grid....
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From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its waters
Asia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas--and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking out from India, he shows how dreams and fears of water...
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The Earth is slowly heating up, and only we, as a global community, can stop it-with the knowledge behind what is happening, we can affect change. Using his PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale and his LLM in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from the Northwestern College of Law at Lewis & Clark University, Dr. John Perona takes us on a journey into the science and politics of the climate crisis in From Knowledge to Power:...
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A sustainability expert goes beyond renewables, calling on us to combat the climate crisis with a new, low-energy way of life.
Concerns over climate change and energy depletion are increasing exponentially. Mainstream solutions still assume that some miracle will cure our climate ills without requiring us to change our energy-intensive lifestyle. But, switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources isn't enough. We need a Plan C.
In response...
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What will you do for our children and grandchildren, knowing their future depends on it?
“Climate Warrior” weaves together the story of one person's response to this question: from awakening and education, to inspiration, advocacy, and action. This is the author's personal story of leaving the world of business to become a climate activist. He dedicated himself to doing what he could, with the talents at his command, working through his church,...
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An authoritative history of the energy crises of the 1970s and the world they wrought
In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Dark Christmas trees, lowered thermostats, empty gas tanks, and the new fifty-five-mile-per-hour speed limit all suggested that America was a nation in decline. "Don't be fuelish" became the national motto. Though the embargo would end...
56) Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union
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Russia's use of its vast energy resources for leverage against post-Soviet states such as Ukraine is widely recognized as a threat. Yet we cannot understand this danger without also understanding the opportunity that Russian energy represents. From corruption-related profits to transportation-fee income to subsidized prices, many within these states have benefited by participating in Russian energy exports. To understand Russian energy power in the...
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EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform was launched on 15 May 2019, to support the implementation of activities announced in the 'Joint Statement on the Implementation of EU-China Energy Cooperation'. The Joint Statement was signed during the 8th EU-China Energy Dialogue that was held in Brussels on 9th April between Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete and the Administrator of the National Energy Administration of China...
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EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform was launched on 15 May 2019, to support the implementation of activities announced in the 'Joint Statement on the Implementation of EU-China Energy Cooperation'. The Joint Statement was signed during the 8th EU-China Energy Dialogue that was held in Brussels on 9th April between Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete and the Administrator of the National Energy Administration of China...
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EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform was launched on 15 May 2019, to support the implementation of activities announced in the 'Joint Statement on the Implementation of EU-China Energy Cooperation'. The Joint Statement was signed during the 8th EU-China Energy Dialogue that was held in Brussels on 9th April between Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete and the Administrator of the National Energy Administration of China...
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EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform was launched on 15 May 2019, to support the implementation of activities announced in the 'Joint Statement on the Implementation of EU-China Energy Cooperation'. The Joint Statement was signed during the 8th EU-China Energy Dialogue that was held in Brussels on 9th April between Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete and the Administrator of the National Energy Administration of China...