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

• Autore: Lester Richard K (Richard Keith), <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2012; [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2011]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 333.790973
• Soggetto topico: Energy industries - Technological innovations - United States; Renewable energy sources - Technological innovations - United States; Technology and state - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: Multi-User
• Altri autori: HartDavid M. <1961->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Unlocking energy innovation
• ISBN: 1-283-30295-0; 9786613302953; 0-262-30017-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457467903321
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