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"Few technologies are more important to unlocking a clean-energy future than batteries. Batteries will help store electricity from solar panels and wind turbines. Batteries will help improve the reliability, versatility, and efficiency of the electric grid. And batteries will power a new generation of zero-emissions vehicles, from cars to bikes to planes. But while batteries may make it possible to scale up renewable energy sources and help to solve global warming while preserving the conveniences of modernity, this transition risks trading one set of resource dependencies and injustices for another, as batteries present their own unique environmental demands and consequences. How will scaling up the production of renewable energy technologies to meet the demands of a clean energy future affect workers and front-line communities who bear the risks and consequences of building this future? What role will batteries play in a "just transition" to a clean energy future?In this book, James Morton Turner explores the environmental history of the three most common battery types to yield insights in into the prospects, challenges, and material consequences of scaling up batteries to support a clean energy future. These types of batteries include: lead-acid batteries, which in part because of the hazards they pose, have become the most recycled product in the world; disposable AA batteries, which although extraordinarily energy intensive to manufacture, became a little-known environmental success story when mercury was eliminated; and lithium-ion batteries, which create unique environmental issues as they require a wider array of highly refined raw materials to manufacture and perform. Turner also engages three ideas that challenge the usual thinking about the past and future of energy and environmental sustainability: the importance of energy quality, the ways in which batteries make energy visible, and how batteries underpin a broader culture of mobility. Through this, batteries become the vehicle for an illuminating analysis of the social and environmental dimensions of modern systems of production and consumption. Considering batteries as the starting point for an investigation into the paradoxes of modern technology, this book tells a story of environmental degradation and social injustice, but also of technical advances and environmental sustainability toward a resilient future"--

Electrochemistry --- Electrical engineering --- Electric batteries.

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Les milieux de la radioprotection à l’échelle internationale ont dressé un important bilan de la situation aux alentours du réacteur endommagé de Tchernobyl à l’occasion du dixième anniversaire de l’accident. Depuis lors, les études qui continuent à être consacrées au site de l’accident et aux territoires contaminés ont mis en évidence de nouveaux aspects scientifiques, sociaux et sanitaires. Le présent rapport constitue une mise à jour complète de la précédente publication de l’AEN intitulée Tchernobyl : Dix ans déjà. Il présente au lecteur les informations les plus récentes sur les nouvelles connaissances significatives acquises dans les domaines de la gestion des situations d’urgence, du comportement à long terme des matières radioactives dans l’environnement et des incidences sur la santé.

Nuclear Energy --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Electrical Engineering

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Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Electrical Engineering --- Electric power production --- Electric utilities --- Technological innovations. --- Electric power generation --- Electricity generation --- Power production, Electric --- Electric power systems --- Electrification

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In recent years, the power sector in several developing countries has suffered from a frustrating gap between strong, pro-reform rhetoric at the political level, and weak, hesitant implementation of the reform measures on the ground. Focusing on the recent experience of power sector reform in India, this paper looks afresh at the problem of the "rhetoric-implementation gap" by taking the lack of political will as its starting point, and identifying the ingredients that comprise it in the current context of India. Assuming that people and institutions are not impartial but instead respond to po

Economic policy and planning (general) --- Relation between energy and economics --- Electrical engineering --- India --- Energy policy --- Energy industries --- Deregulation --- Industries --- Power resources

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Évaluation et recommandations I. Vue générale de l'évolution macroéconomique et des défis économiques -Évolution récente -Les perspectives à court terme -La politique budgétaire en 2003 et 2004 -Le problème du vieillissement du point de vue de la soutenabilité des finances publiques à long terme -L'augmentation de la production potentielle pourrait améliorer les perspectives -Il faut agir sans tarder II. Comment accroître la production potentielle -Favoriser la croissance par une utilisation plus intensive des ressources -Réformes pour améliorer les performances au niveau de l'entreprise -Quelques aspects du développement durable -Résumé III. Gestion des dépenses publiques -Les dépenses dans une optique internationale -Les défis futurs -Procédure budgétaire et relations entre niveaux d'administration -Politiques destinées à renforcer la gestion des dépenses publiques -Résumé -Définition des abréviations -Bibliographie Annexes -I. Simulations budgétaires à long terme -II. Chronologie économique.

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