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The Renewable Energy Transition - Realities for Canada and the World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Renewable Energy Transition - Realities for Canada and the World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Lecture Notes in Energy, 71
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Canada is a well-endowed country that serves as an ideal model to
lead the reader through the development of energy, resources, and
society historically and into a post-carbon future. The book
provides an historical perspective and describes the physical
resource limitations, energy budgets, and climate realities that
will determine the potential for any transition to renewable
energy. Political and social realities, including jurisdiction and
energy equality issues, are addressed. However, we cannot simply
mandate or legislate policies according to social and political
aspirations. Policies must comply with the realities of physical
laws, such as the energy return on investment (EROI) for
fossil-fuel based and renewable energy systems. EROI is discussed
in both historical terms and in reference to the greater
efficiencies inherent in a distributed generation, mainly electric,
post-carbon society. Meyer explores the often misleading concepts
and terms that have become embedded in society and tend to dictate
our policy making, as well as the language, social and personal
goals, and metrics that need to change before the physical
transition can begin at the required scale. This book also reviews
what nations have been doing thus far in terms of renewables,
including the successes and failures in Canada and across the
globe. Ontario's green energy fiasco, and a comparison of the
different circumstances of Norway and Alberta, for example, are
covered as part of the author's comparison of a wide range of
countries. What are the achievements, plans, and problems that
determine how well different countries are positioned to make "the
transition"? The transition path is complex, and the tools we need
to develop and the physical infrastructure investments we need to
make, are daunting. At some point in time, Canada and Canadians,
like all nations, will be living on 100% renewable energy. Whether
the social and technological level that endures sees us travelling
to the stars, or subsisting at a standard of living more similar to
the pre-fossil fuel era, is far from certain.
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