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Author : Walter A. Rosenbaum
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015008790365
Author : Richard Heinberg
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781550924299
Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country's total energy. China and India's ferocious economic growth is based almost entirely on coal-generated electricity. Coal currently looks like a solution to many of our fast-growing energy problems. However, while coal advocates are urging full steam ahead, increasing reliance on the dirtiest of all fossil fuels has crucial implications for the global climate, energy policy, the world economy, and geopolitics. Drawbacks to a coal-based energy strategy include: Scarcity – new studies suggest that the peak of world coal production may actually be less than two decades away. Cost – the quality of produced coal is declining, while the expense of transport is rising, leading to spiraling costs and increasing shortages. Climate impacts - our ability to deal with the historic challenge of climate change will hinge on reducing our coal consumption in future years. Blackout goes to the heart of the tough energy questions that will dominate every sphere of public policy throughout the first half of this century, and is a must-read for planners, educators, and anyone concerned about energy consumption, peak oil and climate change.
Author : Judah Schept
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479888924
How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communities As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with certain regions of the country accounting for large shares of this dramatic growth. Central Appalachia is one such region; there are eight prisons alone in Eastern Kentucky. If Kentucky were its own country, it would have the seventh highest incarceration rate in the world. In Coal, Cages, Crisis, Judah Schept takes a closer look at this stunning phenomenon, providing insight into prison growth, jail expansion and rising incarceration rates in America’s hinterlands. Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research, Schept traces recent prison growth in the region to the rapid decline of its coal industry. He takes us inside this startling transformation occurring in the coalfields, where prisons are often built on top of old coalmines, including mountaintop removal sites, and built into community planning approaches to crises of unemployment, population loss, and declining revenues. By linking prison growth to other sites in this landscape—coal mines, coal waste, landfills, and incinerators—Schept shows that the prison boom has less to do with crime and punishment and much more with the overall extraction, depletion, and waste disposal processes that characterize dominant development strategies for the region. Schept argues that the future of this area now hangs in the balance, detailing recent efforts to oppose its carceral growth. Coal, Cages, Crisis offers invaluable insight into the complex dynamics of mass incarceration that continue to shape Appalachia and the broader United States.
Author : British Engineers' Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Coal trade
ISBN : OCLC:1436139385
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:931243599
Author : Patrick Abercrombie,Victor Branford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Coal
ISBN : UIUC:30112062749111
Author : Lars Bluma,Michael Farrenkopf,Torsten Meyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110730036
Boom – Crisis – Heritage, these terms aptly outline the history of global coal mining after 1945. The essays collected in this volume explore this history with different emphases and questions. The range of topics also reflects this broad approach. The first section contains contributions on political, social and economic history. They address the European energy system in the globalised world of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as specific social policies in mining regions. The second section then focuses on the medialisation of mining and its legacies, also paying attention to the environmental history of mining. The anthology, which goes back to a conference of the same name at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, thus offers a multi-faceted insight into the research field of modern mining history.
Author : James Laxer
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 088862087X
Written at the height of the OPEC oil crisis of the 1970s, Canada's Energy Crisis brings into focus issues that remain relevant to Canada's national and international politics today. Framing the debate with a discussion of the United States' oil strategy as it relates to that country's national security, Laxer analyzes Canada's energy requirements, the state of its largely foreign-owned oil industry, the emergence of a continental energy policy and its implications for Federal-Provincial relations. Concluding with a discussion of the possibilities for development of Western oil sands projects and Northern oil pipelines, Laxer suggests an alternative energy and industrial strategy for Canada, one that counters the continentalist orthodoxy. Canada's Energy Crisis considers questions of economic development and national independence that remain relevant today.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : CORNELL:31924002683575
Author : Labour Research Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : OCLC:1221937632
Author : Arthur Horner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1944*
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : OCLC:8117698
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : OCLC:42289329
Author : Charles Ira Coombs
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Coal
ISBN : 0688322395
This discussion of coal highlights the changing technology of underground and surface mining, the controversial issue of land reclamation, and the importance of this fossil fuel's many by-products.
Author : Labour Research Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Coal miners
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120504837
Author : Rahul Tongia, Anurag Sehgal, Puneet Kamboj
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781648288463
Mark Twain observed, “I'm in favour of progress; it's change I don't like.” Coal dominates Indian energy because it’s available domestically and cheap (especially without a carbon tax). If the global focus is on the energy transition, how does India ensure a just transition? Managing winners and losers will be the single largest challenge for India’s energy policy. Coal is entrenched in a complex ecosystem. In some states, it’s amongst the largest contributors to state budgets. The Indian Railways, India’s largest civilian employer, is afloat because it overcharges coal to offset under-recovery from passengers. Coal India Limited, the public sector miner that produces 85% of domestic coal, is the world’s largest coal miner. But despite enormous reserves, India imports about a quarter of consumption. On the flip side, coal faces inevitable pressure from renewable energy, which is the cheapest option for new builds. However, there is significant coal-based power capacity already in place, some of which is underutilized, or even stranded. Low per-capita energy consumption means India must still grow its energy supply. Before India can phase out coal, it must first achieve a plateau of coal. How this happens cost-effectively and with least resistance isn’t just a technical or economic question, it depends on the political economy of coal and its alternatives. Some stakeholders want to kill coal. A wiser option may be to first clean it up, instead of wishing it away. Across 18 chapters, drawing from leading experts in the field, we examine all aspects of coal’s future in India. We find no easy answers, but attempt to combine the big picture with details, bringing them together to offer a range of policy options.