Key Concepts in Energy

• Main Author: Madureira, Nuno Luis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Energy.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Energy industries.; Economic policy.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Energy Economics.

Organized around eight fundamental ideas, Key concepts in energy history explores the discoveries, technologies and new paradigms in the field of energy, and how they have changed the course of history.  Complex technical concepts such as the “rebound effect”, “technological hybridization”, “margina...

Table of Contents:

• 1
• Primary/Secondary/Final Energy 2
• The Rebound Effect 3
• Technological Hybridization 4
• The Last Gasp 5
• Probable Oil Reserves 6
• Energy Intesnity 7
• Marginal Cost 8
• Levelized Cost Accounting 9
• Final Remarks.