"By far the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date and accessible treatment of the energy-economy-environment problematique available." --John P. Holdren, "Scientific American"A fiercely independent and irresistibly entertaining look at the economic, political and technological forces that are reshaping the world's management of energy resources, Power to the People has been hailed as "as good a manifesto for the new energy world as you will find." (Fred Pearce, New Scientist). The Economist's Environment and Energy correspondent, Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran sees great opportunity in the energy realm today, and he documents an energy revolution already under way. From the corporate boardroom of a Texas oil titan who denies the reality of global warming, to a think tank nestled in the Rocky Mountains where a visionary named Amory Lovins is developing hydrogen fuel-cell technology that could make the internal combustion engine obsolete, Vaitheeswaran gamely pursues the people who hold the keys to our future. Avoiding the traditional divide that pits free markets against the wisdom of conservation and the need for clean energy, "Power to the People" debunks myths without debunking hope.

After the shocking collapse of Enron in fall, 2001 came an equally shocking series of disclosures about how America's seventh-largest company had destroyed itself. There were unethical deals, offshore accounts, and accounting irregularities. There were Wall Street analysts who seemed to have been asleep on the job. There were the lies top executives told so that they could line their own pockets while workers and shareholders lost billions. But after all these disclosures, the question remains: Why? Why did a thriving, innovative company with rock-solid cash flow and reliable earnings suddenly flame out in a maelstrom of corruption, fraud and skulduggery? The answer, Texas business journalist Robert Bryce reveals in this incisive and entertaining book, is that bad business practices begin with human beings. Pipe Dreams traces Enron's astounding transformation from a small regional gas pipeline company into an energy Goliath...and then tracks step-by-step, business decision by business decision, extra-marital affair by extra-marital affair, how, when and why the culture of Enron began to go rotten, and who was responsible. The story of Enron's fall isn't just a story about accounting procedures it's a story about people. Bryce tells that story with all the personality, passion, humour, and inside dope you'd hope for, and the result is an un-putdownable read in the tradition of Barbarians at the Gate and The Predators' Ball.

"I'd say you were a carnival barker, except that wouldn't be fair tocarnival barkers. A carnie will at least tell you up front that he's running a shell game. You, Mr. Lay, were running what purported to be the seventh largest corporation in America."-Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) to Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, Senate Commerce Science & Transportation's Subcommittee, Hearing on Enron, 2/12/02
The speed of Enron's rise and fall is truly astonishing and perhaps the single most important story of corporate failure in the twenty-first century. In Enron investigative journalist Loren Fox promises readers nothing short of the most compelling and insightful investigation into Enron's meteoric ascent-regarded by Wall Street and the media as the epitome of innovation-and its spectacular fall from grace. In a lively and authoritative manner, Fox discusses how the biggest corporate bankruptcy in American business history happened, why for so long no one (except for an enlightened few) saw it coming, and what its impact will be on financial markets, the U.S. economy, U.S. energy policy, and the public for years to come. With access to many company insiders, Fox's intriguing account of this corporate debacle also provides an overview of the corporate culture and business model that led to Enron's high-flying success and disastrous failure. The story of Enron is one that will reverberate in global financial and energy markets as well as in criminal and civil courts for years to come. Rife with all the elements of a classic thriller-scandal, dishonest accounting, personal greed, questionable campaign contributions, suicide-Enron captures the essence of a company that went too far too fast.

The Guide to Commercial-Scale Ethanol Production and Financing was produced by the Solar Energy Research Institute on behalf of the U. S. Department of Energy. It is aimed at facilitating the production and adoption of alcohol fuels on a wide scale throughout the United States. The guide was conceived and developed as a special aid to entrepreneurs who have interest in the business of alcohol fuel production on a commercial scale.

Globalization, privatization, and liberalization of energy markets are dramatically changing the nature of services to the energy sector. But the providers of the services underpinning the production, transport, and distribution of energy are likewise changing the nature of services to the energy sector. Firms are increasingly supplying energy services through crossborder trade, the establishment of a local presence in foreign countries, and the temporary entry of skilled personnel and equipment. Global trade negotiations have not encompassed all ramifications of this sector, which is vital to the world economy. Peter C. Evans examines current efforts to deepen trade commitments regarding energy services. The author reviews benefits of and barriers to liberalization of the energy market, analyzes the deficiencies of the current trade regime and the implications of extending GATS rules to the energy sector, considers the most meaningful additional commitments in the energy trade sector, explores issues yet to be negotiated, and forecasts prospects for a comprehensive GATS agreement on energy services.

The discovery of the Black Giant in 1930 was the largest oil strike in the U.S. at that time, and its gushers changed the face of the oil industry. Oilmen, promoters, oil patch workers, and the nation's unemployed streamed into the tiny hamlets of East Texas for their share, but they faced wars between "big oil" and independent oilmen, bootleg or "hot oil," martial law, and legalized price-fixing. Yet the Black Giant turned out to be the salvation of the drought-stricken farmers, helped in the fight against Germany and Japan, and made lots of folks "Texas rich." The characters, times, and oil industry skulduggery are recalled and explained in dozens of sidebars full of humorous facts and trivia. The author, law professor at Washington College of Law, The American University, practiced oil and gas law for over 35 years and focused on oil and gas matters during the Arab oil embargo for the U.S. Department of the Interior.

This work assesses the status of the public utility deregulation movement in the USA. It focuses on the continuation of releasing competitive forces in the revolutionary deregulation of a large portion of the public utilities industries since 1980.

A comprehensive look at the challenges and issues facing energy providers as they enter the era of open competition.

Energy efficiency and energy conservation are often thought to be the same. They are not, according to Herbert Inhaber. Only when less total energy is consumed by all users will energy actually be saved. Energy efficiency schemes do not accomplish this goal of conservation: when one person or nation conserves energy, there is just more of it for others to use elsewhere. This is the first book to answer, comprehensively and objectively, the question: Do government energy conservation programs hinder or help the nation? Says Inhaber, the fact that billions of dollars have been spent on energy conservation programs, without giving a searching look at what has been accomplished, is a national scandal. Clear, concise, and with numerous useful graphs and tables, this book is an important first step toward making us all aware of what energy conservation actually is-and is not-and how it can and should be implemented. This work includes chapters on how conservation is applied in the electric utility world, whether waste truly exists, the economic aspect of conservation, its relation to Marxism, and past examples of conservation failures. Inhaber reviews many of the points that were first made by Stanley Jevons, the father of modern quantitative economics, who stated more than 130 years ago that increased efficiency often produces greater overall energy use, not less. Inhaber concludes that a remedy claimed to cure all ills will cure none. The faith placed in conservation as a solution to a mountain of problems is, in large part, misplaced. The words 'energy conservation' have captivated people of almost all political and philosophical persuasions. My book should cause many people to rethink their blind faith.

Since the European Union's de-regulation policy for electricity and energy suppliers was implemented, new strategic configurations have emerged. Traditional restraints of geographical limitations on energy companies have been partly removed: the diversity at national regulatory and company level means that the European scene is one of a multiplicity of strategic configurations and developments, whilst also being complex and segmented.

This book highlights the strategic and regulatory challenges of European deregulation, with its main focus being on the business strategies within the emerging de-regulated electricity markets; various regulatory implications which are being raised in this new climate are discussed. Some of the central strategic issues facing the electricity industry in its new competitive context are explored and reviewed, with classical themes debated as a prelude to the following empirical investigation of actual business strategies pursued by the electricity and energy industries.

The main section of this work consists of 7 national case studies of business strategies which also include one North and one South American case. These were considered important inclusions as the North American companies are large investors in the European market, whilst the European companies invest in the South American market. The final chapter is a comparison and summary of the national patterns of market structures, business strategies and regulatory styles with a brief look at some challenges to be faced in future.

In February 1968, the rumors became reality: An ARCO drilling rig has struck oil -- lots of oil -- on Alaska's remote North Slope. Jack Roderick's story of oil and politics in Alaska reads like a novel as he tells of the risky, expensive, and mostly frustrating search for oil across the Northland. Oil companies watch one another jealously. Small independents and the new state struggle to share in the action dominated by huge multi-national oil companies. Gov. Bill Egan, the shy grocer from Valdez, stands up to the industry, seeking the largest possible share of oil revenues for Alaskans.

Designed to bring an understanding of the technological problems regarding our present society to students with no science background. Covers energy use in human history, its diverse sources, safety aspects, storage conservation and environmental problems. This edition includes the many changes which have taken place in issues involving energy and the environment during the past decade. A variety of current statistical information, numerous new problems and recommended outside reading material has been added.

Petroleum discovery challenges policy makers to translate resources into equitable, sustainable, and long-term national growth. Balancing Petroleum Policy provides policy makers and other stakeholders with needed basic sector-related knowledge. It introduces the petroleum value chain, how to envision key petroleum development objectives, legislative and contractual framework design, administration and management of petroleum fiscal regimes, transparency and governance, environmental and social safeguards, and economic diversification through industrial linkages. The book focuses on developing countries and those in civil conflict. The book examines three policy-central questions: ownership, management, and revenue sharing of petroleum resources. Context-specific in its approach, the book offers valuable perspectives on how to prevent violent conflicts related to such resources

Dieses Essential ist ein Aufruf an alle, die sich fur den globalen Umweltschutz einsetzen wollen. Die Klimakrise ist seit Jahrzehnten landerubergreifend und nimmt auf allen Kontinenten stark zu. Es ist Zeit, dass ein geopolitischer exekutiver Weltrat fur Umweltschutz (WRFU) und ein legislatives Weltparlament fur Umweltschutz (WPFU) die internationale Verantwortung ubernehmen. Das weltweite Ziel heisst: Klimagerechtigkeit mit Null Treibhausgas-Emissionen und hundert Prozent recyclebaren Ressourcen.

In an attempt to maintain self-sufficiency, both Canadian and American federal authorities have imposed a number of restrictions on the inter-country flows of natural gas in North America -- tariffs, export and import permits, and quotas. The purpose of this study is to estimate how much less final consumers would pay for natural gas if free trade were allowed. A linear programming model is used to estimate a hypothetical flow pattern when no restrictions are placed on trans-border flows of gas. In comparing this free trade solution to a simulation of the actual flow pattern under trade restrictions, the costs to final consumers can be estimated. In addition, the regional gains and losses to producers can be measured. A chapter is devoted to investigating both the balance of payments effects of free trade adn the impact of the Canadian tariff on natural gas which existed from 1924 to 1967. A technique is devised to estimate the tariff necessary to prevent entry into the domestic market by foreign suppliers. The book should be of great interest to teachers of programming, economists, people in government, and individuals concerned about the effects of a continental energy policy.

Martin Himler emigrated from Hungary to America in 1907, and he arrived in New York City with no money and no plan other than to find work. From these impoverished beginnings, Himler persevered to become a self-made new American. As a coal mining entrepreneur, he established the Himler Coal Company-a bold experiment in a worker-owned mine-founded the small town of Himlerville, Kentucky-a town almost completely populated by Hungarian immigrants-and founded and edited a weekly newspaper, the Magyar Banyaszlap (Hungarian Miners' Journal). During WWII, Himler was called by the United States government to work for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Colonel Himler arrested more than 300 Nazi war criminals and interrogated 40 himself. Himler's autobiography tells in Himler's own words his life story as it evolves into the American dream, wherein hard work results in success. Himler captivates readers from his earliest memories of his childhood in Hungary to his experiences with the OSS. Following Himler's death, the manuscript of the autobiography was passed down among Himler family members and then donated to the Martin County Historical and Genealogical Society, Inez, Kentucky, in 2007. Editor Cathy Cassady Corbin's annotations enhance Himler's words, while the introduction by scholar Doug Cantrell provides historical context for Himler's migration to Appalachia. Finally, Charles Fenyvesi's foreword analyzes Himler's courageous OSS work.

Oil may be anywhere, but it doesn't belong to just anybody. In most countries it belongs to the government, but in the United States it belongs to the owner of the surface of the land under which it lies or to the speculator who may have purchased the land's "mineral rights." As a lease man for a major oil company, Merlin F. Sailor's business was to secure for his company the right to conduct geophysical operations on, and drill for and produce, the oil and natural gas suspected to lie under the surface of the land. In this book he relates how he went about his work, which was alternately fun and frustrating. In the course of his work he met all kinds of people, some of whom wanted nothing to do with him or the oil industry. Although he claims that this book is intended to interest and amuse rather than instruct, it explains a great deal about oil along the way. Sailor could and did tell a good story in this truly human document, and as a bonus, much of what he tells has genuine historical and literary value in the record of industrial America in the twentieth century. Merlin F. Sailor (1906-1965) began his long association with the oil business in 1945, "after an uninteresting twelve years spent practicing law in Iowa, where there was no known oil or gas, and an extremely interesting three and onehalf years in the U.S. Navy during World War II, where oil was always available but sometimes hard to get."

Viele Menschen in Deutschland sind unzufrieden mit dem Stil oeffentlicher Debatten zu Energiepolitik und Klimawandel. Denn zahlreiche Wortfuhrer vermengen Dichtung mit Wahrheit, Gedanken mit Gefuhlen und pflegen den Gestus moralischer UEberlegenheit. Das vorliegende Buch nimmt sieben kontroverse Energiewendethemen unserer Zeit unter die Lupe. Der Autor legt durch sachliche und zugleich unterhaltsame Analysen den Wahrheitsgehalt der Argumentationsgebaude frei und beschreibt ihre vielgestaltigen politischen Fassaden. Er zeigt insbesondere, dass energie- und klimapolitische Entscheidungen durch Verknupfung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse mit persoenlichen Werturteilen zustande kommen und dass es deshalb in einer freiheitlich-demokratischen Gesellschaft keine alternativlose Energie- und Klimapolitik geben kann. Das Buch bildet mit seiner sorgfaltig beschriebenen Analysemethode und praxisnahen Kopfrechenaufgaben den Leitfaden fur eine sachgerechte, kontroverse und zugleich kurzweilige Energie- und Klimadebatte mit Familie, Freunden, Kollegen und Politikern.

Wie koennen wir Klimakrise und Ressourcenverknappung bewaltigen? Wie muss ein Werkzeugkasten zur Reparatur der Menschheitsprobleme bestuckt sein? Reicht das Werkzeug der Effizienz oder benoetigen wir auf Grund der Dringlichkeit und der existenziellen Bedeutung einen ganzen Satz an Strategien, Methoden und Werkzeugen? Dieses Buch gibt Antworten auf diese Fragen und einen UEberblick uber unterschiedliche Konzepte der Nachhaltigkeit. Es zeigt die Bandbreite an Perspektiven auf, wie den bestehenden Herausforderungen begegnet werden kann. Dabei wirbt es fur ein starkes Miteinander der Strategien und ermutigt jeden zum Handeln und zur Veranderung.

Dieses Buch stellt die Entwicklung der Energiewirtschaft in Ostdeutschland wahrend der Zeit nach dem 2. Weltkrieg ab 1945 (Sowjetische Besatzungszone und nach 1949 Deutsche Demokratische Republik) zusammen. Anhand der in dieser Zeit entstandenen Gesetze und Verordnungen, die mit der Absicht zur Entwicklung der Energiewirtschaft verabschiedet wurden, werden die sich daraus ergebenden Resultate untersucht. Dabei sind auch die Auswirkungen auf die Bevoelkerung allgemein sowohl im Beruf als auch im privaten Bereich sichtbar, die vor allem durch Verbote der Nutzung von elektrischer Energie und Gas, aber auch durch Umweltwirkungen - bedingt durch die extreme Nutzung der Rohbraunkohle als Primarenergietrager - entstanden. Deutlich wird auch der Versuch, durch Ordnungsprozesse in der Verwendung der Energie sowie durch den Einsatz von Kontrollorganen (Energieinspektoren) die standig vorhandenen Versorgungslucken zu verringern.

Wie sozial gerecht ist Wohnraum? Sollen Mieter, die in nicht gut gedammten Wohnungen leben, dafur zahlen, dass sie aufgrund dessen mehr Energie verbrauchen und hoehere Energiekosten haben? Mussen externalisierte Kosten der Energiegewinnung und -verteilung nicht zukunftig internalisiert werden? Der ganzheitliche Umweltgerechtigkeitsansatz impliziert auch Gesundheitsgerechtigkeit. Das heisst, sowohl sozialraumliche Gegebenheiten als auch sozioekonomische Belange sind im Zusammenhang mit der Energieeffizienz von Wohngebauden und der Energieversorgung einzubeziehen. Die Problematiken, die sich daraus ergeben, sind nicht mit den aktuell ublichen Transferleistungen fur Einkommensschwache zu loesen. Erforderlich sind stadtplanerische Instrumente gepaart mit politischem Willen, wie energieeffiziente Sanierung von Wohnbauten und Stadtquartieren, Vermeidung von Raumreduktion und den damit verbundenen siedlungshygienischen und stadtklimatischen Beeinflussungen der Gesundheit der Bewohner. Notwendig ist auch das Einbinden von wegeoekonomischen Mobilitatskonzepten in den Bestand der Verkehrswege.

Leadership in gas turbine technologies is of continuing importance as the value of gas turbine production is projected to grow substantially by 2030 and beyond. Power generation, aviation, and the oil and gas industries rely on advanced technologies for gas turbines. Market trends including world demographics, energy security and resilience, decarbonization, and customer profiles are rapidly changing and influencing the future of these industries and gas turbine technologies. Technology trends that define the technological environment in which gas turbine research and development will take place are also changing - including inexpensive, large scale computational capabilities, highly autonomous systems, additive manufacturing, and cybersecurity. It is important to evaluate how these changes influence the gas turbine industry and how to manage these changes moving forward. Advanced Technologies for Gas Turbines identifies high-priority opportunities for improving and creating advanced technologies that can be introduced into the design and manufacture of gas turbines to enhance their performance. The goals of this report are to assess the 2030 gas turbine global landscape via analysis of global leadership, market trends, and technology trends that impact gas turbine applications, develop a prioritization process, define high-priority research goals, identify high-priority research areas and topics to achieve the specified goals, and direct future research. Findings and recommendations from this report are important in guiding research within the gas turbine industry and advancing electrical power generation, commercial and military aviation, and oil and gas production. Table of Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Background 2 Aggressive Goals for Gas Turbine Development 3 High-Priority Research Areas and Topics 4 Additional Considerations Appendixes Appendix A: Statement of Task Appendix B: Compendium of High-Priority Goals, Research Areas, Research Topics, and Their Summary Statements Appendix C: Committee Member Biographical Information Appendix D: Acronyms

Dieses Lehrbuch stellt das Themenfeld Energiewende systematisch aufbereitet fur Studium und Lehre aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive dar. Der UEberblick reicht von der grundsatzlichen Bedeutung von grossen Transformationen uber die Geschichte der Energiewende und die Bereiche Energiepolitik, Energierecht und Energiewirtschaft bis zu einem Ausblick in eine postfossile Zukunft. Die Leserinnen und Leser erhalten einen umfassenden Ein- und UEberblick zu allen Aspekten rund um die Energiewende in Deutschland, Europa und weltweit. Zusatzliche Fragen per App: Laden Sie die Springer Nature Flashcards-App kostenlos herunter und nutzen Sie exklusives Zusatzmaterial, um Ihr Wissen zu prufen.