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The Renewable Energy Transition = Realities for Canada and the World /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Renewable Energy Transition/ by John Erik Meyer.
Reminder of title:	Realities for Canada and the World /
Author:	Meyer, John Erik.
Description:	XXXIV, 386 p. 125 illus., 109 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Energy policy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29115-0
ISBN:	9783030291150

The Renewable Energy Transition = Realities for Canada and the World /
Meyer, John Erik.

The Renewable Energy TransitionRealities for Canada and the World /[electronic resource] :by John Erik Meyer. - 1st ed. 2020. - XXXIV, 386 p. 125 illus., 109 illus. in color.online resource. - Lecture Notes in Energy,712195-1284 ;. - Lecture Notes in Energy,28.

Energy, Resources, Population and Society - Why we need energy and why we need to develop energy policy -- Canada’s Energy History from Seal Oil to EROI metrics and Transition Modelling -- The Transition to Renewables – Why do we need to do it? -- Renewable Energy Learning Curve -- Renewable energy in a spectrum of countries – the impact -- The Metrics of Renewable Energy – Understanding what you are counting -- The Transition from the Ground Up -- Building a renewable energy network -- A New World for Public Policy - Energy Transition = Social Transformation -- Pushed out of the Nest – The challenge and Opportunity of the Renewable Energy Transition.

Canada is a well-endowed country that serves as an ideal model to lead the reader through the development of energy, resources, and society historically and into a post-carbon future. The book provides an historical perspective and describes the physical resource limitations, energy budgets, and climate realities that will determine the potential for any transition to renewable energy. Political and social realities, including jurisdiction and energy equality issues, are addressed. However, we cannot simply mandate or legislate policies according to social and political aspirations. Policies must comply with the realities of physical laws, such as the energy return on investment (EROI) for fossil-fuel based and renewable energy systems. EROI is discussed in both historical terms and in reference to the greater efficiencies inherent in a distributed generation, mainly electric, post-carbon society. Meyer explores the often misleading concepts and terms that have become embedded in society and tend to dictate our policy making, as well as the language, social and personal goals, and metrics that need to change before the physical transition can begin at the required scale. This book also reviews what nations have been doing thus far in terms of renewables, including the successes and failures in Canada and across the globe. Ontario’s green energy fiasco, and a comparison of the different circumstances of Norway and Alberta, for example, are covered as part of the author’s comparison of a wide range of countries. What are the achievements, plans, and problems that determine how well different countries are positioned to make “the transition”? The transition path is complex, and the tools we need to develop and the physical infrastructure investments we need to make, are daunting. At some point in time, Canada and Canadians, like all nations, will be living on 100% renewable energy. Whether the social and technological level that endures sees us travelling to the stars, or subsisting at a standard of living more similar to the pre-fossil fuel era, is far from certain.

ISBN: 9783030291150

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-29115-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

554736
Energy policy.

LC Class. No.: HD9502-9502.5

Dewey Class. No.: 333.79

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