1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457467903321

Autore

Lester Richard K (Richard Keith), <1954->

Titolo

Unlocking energy innovation : how America can build a low-cost, low-carbon energy system / / Richard K. Lester and David M. Hart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2012

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2011]

ISBN

1-283-30295-0

9786613302953

0-262-30017-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

HartDavid M. <1961->

Disciplina

333.790973

Soggetti

Energy industries - Technological innovations - United States

Renewable energy sources - Technological innovations - United States

Technology and state - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Beyond wishful thinking : facts, deductions, and grounded assertions about climate and energy -- An energy innovation system that works -- Electric utilities and the three waves of energy innovation -- The first wave : unlocking innovation in building energy efficiency -- The second wave of innovation-Part 1 : Low-carbon electricity supply -- The second wave of innovation-Part 2 : The rest of the electricity system -- The third wave of innovation : creating breakthrough options -- Building a new American energy innovation system : a ten-point framework.

Sommario/riassunto

Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. But if we are to achieve a timely transition to reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy, the U.S. energy innovation system must be radically overhauled. Unlocking Energy Innovation outlines an up-to-the-minute plan for remaking America's energy innovation system by tapping the country's entrepreneurial strengths and regional diversity in both the public and



private spheres. The authors map three waves of energy innovation to show how we can speed up the introduction of new technologies and business models and accelerate their deployment on a massive scale. "Business as usual" will not fill the energy innovation gap. Nor will wishful thinking--common enough today, with politicians and others talking up some technologies, talking down others, and claiming that if we price it, or if we mandate it, or if we simply say it often and inspiringly enough, the innovations will flow. Only the kind of systemic, transformative changes to our energy innovation system described in this provocative book will help us avert the most dire scenarios and achieve a sustainable and secure energy future.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966477203321

Titolo

Exploring the lexis-grammar interface / / edited by Ute Romer, Rainer Schulze

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2008

ISBN

9786612104930

9781282104938

1282104934

9789027289803

9027289808

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vi, 321 p

Collana

Studies in corpus linguistics, , 1388-0373 ; ; v. 35

Altri autori (Persone)

RomerUte

SchulzeRainer

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Corpora (Linguistics)

Lexicology

Grammaticality (Linguistics)

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Results from a conference that  was held under the title of the present volume at the Leibniz University of Hanover,  Germany, from October 5-7, 2006".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Zooming in / Rainer Schulze and Ute Römer -- Technology and phraseology: with notes on the history of corpus linguistics / Michael Stubbs -- Corpus-driven approaches to grammar: the search for common ground / Michael Hoey -- Valency: item-specificity and idiom principle / Thomas Herbst -- Fowler's Modern English usage at the interface of lexis and grammar / Ulrich Busse and Anne Schröder -- The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (1):  lexical access / Nick C. Ellis, Eric Frey and Isaac Jalkanen -- The lexicogrammar of present-day Indian English: corpus-based perspectives on structural nativisation / Joybrato Mukherjee -- The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that: evidence from non-standard English / Daniela Kolbe -- The historical development of the verb doubt and its various patterns of complementation / Yoko Iyeiri -- The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns: the N1 to N1 pattern / Hans Lindquist and Magnus Levin -- A corpus-based investigation of cognate object constructions / Silke Höche -- Revisiting the evidence for objects in English / Matthias l.G. Meyer -- Lexico-functional categories and complex collocations: the case of intensifiers / Silvia Cacchiani -- Polysemy and lexical priming: the case of drive / Fanie Tsiamita -- Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns / Michaela Mahlberg -- Loud signatures: comparing evaluative discourse styles: patterns in rants and riffs / Alison Duguid.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume showcases studies that recognize and provide evidence for the inseparability of lexis and grammar. The contributors explore in what ways these two areas, often treated separately in linguistic theory and description, form an organic whole. The papers in Section I (Setting the Scene) introduce some of the key methodological approaches and theoretical positions at the lexis-grammar interface, while Section II (Considering the Particulars) contains papers that report on case studies and show concrete applications of the central methods and theories. Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface is a stimulating collection of papers for anyone who wishes to learn more about and get fresh state-of-the-art perspectives on language patterning.