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The paralysis in energy decision making : European energy policy in crisis / Malcolm Grimston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grimston, Malcolm C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Energy policy--European Economic Community countries.
- Energy policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (473 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Dunbeath, Scotland : Whittles Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- This analysis of decision-making in the energy field, especially electricity in the UK and Western Europe, provides a critique of the various claims that are made for different ways of approaching the critical need for vast amounts of new investment.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the fatal sclerosis in energy decision-making
- Fossil fuels
- Nuclear energy
- Renewables
- Energy efficiency
- Energiewende
- Japan : a worked example of medium-term power capacity storage
- The liberalisation of power markets and its effect on investment
- Climate change
- Politics and energy : the tripartite relationship among the technical, political and public realms in the age of inertia
- Public perceptions and the strange case of radiation
- Conclusions : unblock the arteries or wait for thrombosis?
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 3, 2016).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781849952910
- 1849952914
- 9781849952873
- 1849952876
- OCLC:
- 1441724878
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