While energy use has appeared historically consequent for most of human history, it now seems energy non-use may determine our future. It…
This paper traces the history of oil being reined in by the British Raj, from the 1870s to the early 20th C. I argue that oil is not a…
After four years of preparations, in the summer of 1981 Nairobi hosted the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy. A…
La conception de la transition énergétique invite à réviser le développement de chaque source d'énergie. Il en va ainsi de l'énergie gazière qui a…
In Les économistes et la fin des énergies fossiles, Antoine Missemer explores the different ways by which economists have made fossil…
Cet article cherche à comprendre les raisons du fatalisme victorien face à une dépendance énergétique au charbon dont on ne parvient à s’extraire…
Enjeu majeur pour la recherche en histoire des hydrocarbures, l’accessibilité aux sources archivistiques et aux archives historiques des…
This paper presents the World Energy Council (WEC) as an archive for research on the history of energy. Since its foundation in 1924, this non-…
This article examines how the perils conjured by blackouts in American cities after 1965 became interpreted as a key point of political and…
