Future energy options from a systems perspective / Nick King, Aled Jones.
King, Nick, author.; Jones, Aled, author.
2023
HD9502.A2 K56 2023
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Title Future energy options from a systems perspective / Nick King, Aled Jones.
Author King, Nick, author.
ISBN 9783031464485 (electronic bk.)
3031464486 (electronic bk.)
3031464478
9783031464478
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46448-5
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (118 p.)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-46448-5 doi
Call Number HD9502.A2 K56 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.79
Summary This book is an exploration of energy and its unique role to date as one of the fundamental enabling and controlling factors in human development and progress at the scale of global civilisation, and how it will be fundamental to the type of future that collective humanity is likely to experience. The first section provides a contextual overview of energy and human civilization through a chronological description of how human energy use has evolved over time and led to the current energy bind. The second section explores what this energy bind might mean for our future energy choices when trying to meet the various challenges of dwindling resources, costs, and climate change, through exploration of three broad systems-based scenarios for the human "energy future." The final section draws conclusions as to which scenario is most achievable and desirable, and what this might mean for longer-term human prospects. Nick King is a chartered earth and environmental scientist working primarily in professional consulting and the energy industry. He has worked with the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University since 2018 on subject areas including energy and global risk and is also affiliated with the Schumacher Institute think tank. He has also presented and written opinion pieces about a number of environmental and systems thinking topics. Aled Jones is the inaugural Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) at Anglia Ruskin University. Professor Jones' work in climate finance has been recognized by the State of California and he has received a key to the city of North Little Rock, USA. He is a Co-Investigator on the ESRC Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), and the UK Government funded Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition.
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Intro
Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction
Energy as a Critical Phenomenon
Phases of Human Energy Use Through Time
Taming of Fire
Agriculture and Animal Metabolic Power
Natural Energy Flows, Whale Oil and Human Slavery
Fossil Fuels and Industrialisation
Nuclear and Renewables
Themes Through the Evolution of Human Energy Use
Succession and Interdependence of Energy Sources and Types
Geography and Portability
Energy Return on Investment
Complexity, Energy and the Superorganism
Current Global Energy Situation-The Global 'Energy Bind'

Assessment of the Continued Growth Branch
The Stabilisation Branch
Long-Term Stability of Complex Systems
Energy Technologies and Stabilisation
A Renewables-Based Civilisation
Challenges for the Renewables Transition
Systemic Challenges
Re-materialisation
Externalities of Renewables
Constraints to New Frontiers for Renewables
Enablers and Opportunities for the Renewables Transition
Degrowth and Changes to Per Capita Energy Use
Renewables Circular Economy
Interactions with the Food System
Potential Hybrid Energy Systems

Assessment of the Renewables Stabilisation Branch
References
3 Conclusions
Fossil Fuel Systemic Inertia
Longer Term Perspectives
References
Index

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