Download or read book Blackout written by Richard Heinberg and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country's total energy. China and India's ferocious economic growth is based almost entirely on coal-generated electricity. Coal currently looks like a solution to many of our fast-growing energy problems. However, while coal advocates are urging full steam ahead, increasing reliance on the dirtiest of all fossil fuels has crucial implications for the global climate, energy policy, the world economy, and geopolitics. Drawbacks to a coal-based energy strategy include: Scarcity – new studies suggest that the peak of world coal production may actually be less than two decades away. Cost – the quality of produced coal is declining, while the expense of transport is rising, leading to spiraling costs and increasing shortages. Climate impacts - our ability to deal with the historic challenge of climate change will hinge on reducing our coal consumption in future years. Blackout goes to the heart of the tough energy questions that will dominate every sphere of public policy throughout the first half of this century, and is a must-read for planners, educators, and anyone concerned about energy consumption, peak oil and climate change.
Download or read book Coal and Crisis written by Walter A. Rosenbaum and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1978 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coal Crisis written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coal Crisis and the Future written by Patrick Abercrombie and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coal Cages Crisis written by Judah Schept and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communities As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with certain regions of the country accounting for large shares of this dramatic growth. Central Appalachia is one such region; there are eight prisons alone in Eastern Kentucky. If Kentucky were its own country, it would have the seventh highest incarceration rate in the world. In Coal, Cages, Crisis, Judah Schept takes a closer look at this stunning phenomenon, providing insight into prison growth, jail expansion and rising incarceration rates in America’s hinterlands. Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research, Schept traces recent prison growth in the region to the rapid decline of its coal industry. He takes us inside this startling transformation occurring in the coalfields, where prisons are often built on top of old coalmines, including mountaintop removal sites, and built into community planning approaches to crises of unemployment, population loss, and declining revenues. By linking prison growth to other sites in this landscape—coal mines, coal waste, landfills, and incinerators—Schept shows that the prison boom has less to do with crime and punishment and much more with the overall extraction, depletion, and waste disposal processes that characterize dominant development strategies for the region. Schept argues that the future of this area now hangs in the balance, detailing recent efforts to oppose its carceral growth. Coal, Cages, Crisis offers invaluable insight into the complex dynamics of mass incarceration that continue to shape Appalachia and the broader United States.
Download or read book Illinois Coal and the Energy Crisis written by Illinois Coal Operators Association and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coal Crisis written by Labour Research Department and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Appeal to Reason written by Illinois Coal Operators Association and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coal Crisis written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Consequences of the Coal Crisis written by International Labour Office and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Future of Coal in India written by Rahul Tongia, Anurag Sehgal, Puneet Kamboj and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain observed, “I'm in favour of progress; it's change I don't like.” Coal dominates Indian energy because it’s available domestically and cheap (especially without a carbon tax). If the global focus is on the energy transition, how does India ensure a just transition? Managing winners and losers will be the single largest challenge for India’s energy policy. Coal is entrenched in a complex ecosystem. In some states, it’s amongst the largest contributors to state budgets. The Indian Railways, India’s largest civilian employer, is afloat because it overcharges coal to offset under-recovery from passengers. Coal India Limited, the public sector miner that produces 85% of domestic coal, is the world’s largest coal miner. But despite enormous reserves, India imports about a quarter of consumption. On the flip side, coal faces inevitable pressure from renewable energy, which is the cheapest option for new builds. However, there is significant coal-based power capacity already in place, some of which is underutilized, or even stranded. Low per-capita energy consumption means India must still grow its energy supply. Before India can phase out coal, it must first achieve a plateau of coal. How this happens cost-effectively and with least resistance isn’t just a technical or economic question, it depends on the political economy of coal and its alternatives. Some stakeholders want to kill coal. A wiser option may be to first clean it up, instead of wishing it away. Across 18 chapters, drawing from leading experts in the field, we examine all aspects of coal’s future in India. We find no easy answers, but attempt to combine the big picture with details, bringing them together to offer a range of policy options.
Download or read book Federal Government Action During the Coal Crisis written by United States. Federal Fuel Distributor and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coal Crisis 1912 written by and published by . This book was released on 191? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boom Crisis Heritage written by Lars Bluma and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boom – Crisis – Heritage, these terms aptly outline the history of global coal mining after 1945. The essays collected in this volume explore this history with different emphases and questions. The range of topics also reflects this broad approach. The first section contains contributions on political, social and economic history. They address the European energy system in the globalised world of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as specific social policies in mining regions. The second section then focuses on the medialisation of mining and its legacies, also paying attention to the environmental history of mining. The anthology, which goes back to a conference of the same name at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, thus offers a multi-faceted insight into the research field of modern mining history.
Download or read book Coal in the Energy Crisis written by New Zealand Coal Research Association and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illinois Coal written by Illinois Coal Operators Association and published by . This book was released on 1976* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coal Crisis written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
