Download or read book Synthetic Fuel Technology Development in the United States written by and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-11-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Direct coal liquefaction, a synthetic liquid fuel process, is one of the major developmental alternatives for meeting the anticipated fuel demands for the twenty-first century. This work provides a retrospective assessment of past attempts in this century to develop synthetic liquid fuel and applies the findings to produce reliable and pertinent data for the future. Retrospective technology assessment, a recent methodological invention, is used by the authors to analyze the past synthetic liquid fuel programs and the reasons for their failures. Bringing to bear four different perspectives--economic, technological, policy, and historical--the authors draw broad conclusions that will help guide the next development effort in the United States.
Download or read book Synthetic Fuels Development written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Status of Synthetic Fuels and Cost shared Energy R D Facilities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Belief based Energy Technology Development in the United States written by Chi-Jen Yang and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative study of two energy policies that illustrates how and why technical fixes in energy policy failed in the United States. In the post-WWII era, the U.S. government forcefully and consistently endorsed the development of civilian nuclear power. It adopted policies to establish the competitiveness of civilian nuclear power far beyond what would have occurred under free-market conditions. Even though synthetic fuel was characterized by a similar level of economic potential and technical feasibility, the policy approach toward synthetic fuel was sporadic and indeterminate. The contrast between the unfaltering faith in nuclear power and the indeterminate attitude toward synthetic fuel raises many important questions. The answers to these questions reveal provocative yet compelling insights into the policy-making process. The author argues that these diverging paths of development can be explained by exploring the dominant government ideology of the time or "ideology of the state" as the sociology literature describes it. The forceful support for nuclear power was a result of a government preoccupied with fighting the Cold War. The U.S. national security planners intentionally idealized and deified nuclear power to serve its Cold War psychological strategy. These psychological maneuverings attached important symbolic meaning to nuclear power. This symbolism, in turn, explains the society-wide enthusiasm. The fabricated myth of the Atomic Age became a self-fulfilling prophecy and ushered in a bandwagon market. On the other hand, a confused, indeterminate, and relatively powerless welfare state stood behind synthetic fuel. The different ideologies of the state explain the government's different attitudes toward nuclear and synfuel endeavors. The overarching discovery is a mode of "belief-based decision-making" in long-term energy planning. This discovery goes against the prevalent assumption of rational choice in social sciences. The author argues that rational-choice assumption is inapplicable because of the extreme long-term nature of energy planning. It is not usually possible to predict the sociopolitical and economic conditions in the distant future. Rational decisions require supporting information, which often includes impossible long-term foresights. One cannot rationally choose between one unknown and another unknown. Pivotal decisions in long-term energy planning must inevitably be belief based, and beliefs are subject to political manipulation and distortions by social mechanisms. Understanding these peculiar but pervasive characteristics of energy business bears important lessons for today's decision making about energy technologies, and the stakes, if anything, are even higher than before. Energy policy communities; historians of the Cold War, American history, and technology; and sociologists would find this book an invaluable resource.
Download or read book The Socioeconomic Impacts of Synthetic Fuels written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loan Guarantees for Commercial size Synthetic Fuels Demonstration Plants written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Synthetic Fuels Environmental Research and Development written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Findings and Recommendations of the Advisory Panel on Synthetic Fuels written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Advisory Panel on Synthetic Fuels and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Synthetic Fuel Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Technologies for Old Fuels written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Fossil and Nuclear Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loan Guarantees for Commercial size Synthetic Fuels Demonstration Plants Witnesses written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration (Fossil Fuels) and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Increased automobile fuel efficiency and synthetic fuels written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1982 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prospects for Synthetic Fuels in the United States written by John M. Deutch and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Synthetic Fuel Production written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Findings and Recommendations of the Advisory Panel on Synthetic Fuels written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Advisory Panel on Synthetic Fuels and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loan Guarantees for Commercial size Synthetic Fuels Demonstration Plants written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration (Fossil Fuels) and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Synthetic Fuels written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: