This book seeks to examine the visions, fantasies, expectations, and rhetoric associated with six state-of-the-art energy systems-shale gas, clean coal, nuclear power, hydrogen fuel cells, smart meters, and electric vehicles-playing a key role in current deliberations about low-carbon energy supply and use.
This book seeks to examine the visions, fantasies, expectations, and rhetoric associated with six state-of-the-art energy systems-shale gas, clean coal, nuclear power, hydrogen fuel cells, smart meters, and electric vehicles-playing a key role in current deliberations about low-carbon energy supply and use.
Benjamin K. Sovacool is Professor of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the School of Business, Management, and Economics, University of Sussex, UK. He is also Professor of Business & Social Sciences at Aarhus University in Denmark, where he also directs the Centre on Energy Technologies.
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List of Figures List of Tables About the Author Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Visions and futures in the study of low-carbon energy systems 2. Technological utopianism: Small modular reactors and the physics community 3. Symbolic convergence: Hydrogen fuel cells and the engineering community 4. Technological frames: The interpretive flexibility of shale gas in Eastern Europe 5. Discursive coalitions: Contesting clean coal in South Africa 6. Sociotechnical imaginaries: Smart meters and the public in the United Kingdom 7. Expectations: Electric mobility and experts in the Nordic region 8. Conclusion: Dimensions, dichotomies and frameworks for energy futures Index
List of Figures List of Tables About the Author Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Visions and futures in the study of low-carbon energy systems 2. Technological utopianism: Small modular reactors and the physics community 3. Symbolic convergence: Hydrogen fuel cells and the engineering community 4. Technological frames: The interpretive flexibility of shale gas in Eastern Europe 5. Discursive coalitions: Contesting clean coal in South Africa 6. Sociotechnical imaginaries: Smart meters and the public in the United Kingdom 7. Expectations: Electric mobility and experts in the Nordic region 8. Conclusion: Dimensions, dichotomies and frameworks for energy futures Index
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