Energy at the end of the world : an Orkney Islands saga / Laura Watts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watts, Laura, 1972- author.

Series:

Infrastructures.

Infrastructures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy conservation--Research--Scotland--Orkney--History.

Energy conservation.

Renewable energy sources--Scotland--Orkney--History.

Renewable energy sources.

History.

Energy conservation--Research.

Orkney (Scotland)--Description and travel.

Orkney (Scotland).

Scotland--Orkney.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.

Contents:

Saga I Making Orkney Electrons p. 27

1 Announcement p. 27

2 The grid breaks down p. 29

3 Overflowing environmental resource p. 35

4 Come and visit us p. 41

5 Quadruple fuel poverty p. 50

6 Orkney electron economics p. 55

7 Thinking with electrons p. 63

8 Touching electrons on the beach p. 72

9 Taking a boat to the Eday test site p. 78

10 Use more power (drive an electric car) p. 87

11 Take the power off in another fuel p. 96

12 Electron archaeology p. 101

13 Living lab oratory p. 105

14 Weaving the network p. 115

15 Wandering monster p. 121

16 Energy walk p. 128

Saga II Making Energy Futures p. 135

1 Three energy futures p. 135

2 Haunted by time p. 141

3 Orkney time zone p. 146

4 Seeing like a stone circle p. 151

5 Seeing like a data point p. 157

6 Monuments make a community p. 163

7 Wind turbines make a community p. 169

8 The power of bruck p. 178

9 Wandering monster p. 189

10 Orkney Ltd. p. 194

11 Collaborative business models p. 200

12 Silence p. 204

13 Orkney is a place that acts through people p. 210

14 The force of bigsy p. 223

15 All else is the wind blowing p. 229

16 Wandering monster p. 235

17 Bruck sublime p. 244

Saga III Making Marine Energy p. 250

1 Knock knock p. 250

2 Wave farm watching p. 255

3 Fishers p. 260

4 Here be dragons p. 267

5 Mare nullius p. 272

6 Between the high and the low tide p. 280

7 Wandering monster p. 287

8 Mission control p. 300

9 Keep doing it-never give in p. 307

10 Birds in the machine p. 316

11 Cutting out letters p. 325

12 Infrastructure-at-sea p. 329

13 Dream of things that never were p. 342

14 Wandering monster p. 356

15 Selkie infrastructures p. 371.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262349659

0262349655

OCLC:

1080308693

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.