Developed in West Germany in the 1960s, the SIEMENS type SUR-100 zero-power reactor was designed both for educational purposes and as a demonstration object for an engineering discipline still in emergence.
Traditional energy histories have treated electrification as an inevitability: the assumption has been that making cheap energy supply readily available for the masses required the energy efficiency uniquely attainable by large-scale networked electricity grids.
Heat-as-a-service (HaaS) involves the provision of agreed room temperatures at certain times for a fixed fee, instead of charging for energy use on a per-unit basis.
Cet article analyse la transition énergétique du secteur sidérurgique suédois, entre 1800 et 1939.
Réduire la production et la consommation d’énergie est un impératif urgent pour les sociétés occidentales. Concrètement, il est toutefois dur d’anticiper comment cet objectif sera atteint et avec quelles conséquences.
In the wake of a recent literature in international banking and financial history focused on the role of western commercial banks in placing the OPEC nations' assets with international borrowers, this article examines the role of leading Wall Street American banks in reflowing the investments of
Modern imperialism springs from the interaction of the geopolitical and economic logics. The international oil industry offers an ideal case study of this connection. The links between nation states and multinational oil companies have been close and mutually advantageous.
Petrodollars – the dollars accumulated by oil-producing countries as revenues for oil exports – are usually considered key to our understanding of the renewal and transformation of US power during the 1970s.
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 connu au moins trois transitions dans sa longue durée.
La révolution industrielle et ses avancées techniques de l’époque contemporaine favorisèrent dès le 19e s.