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Energy

For 200 years, the world has progressively lightened its energy diet by favoring hydrogen atoms over carbon in our hydrocarbon stew. Energy technologies succeed when economies of scale form part of their conditions of evolution.   Like computers, to grow larger, the energy system must now shrink in size and cost.  The successful decarbonization of the energy system, the key to the alleviation of numerous environmental problems, will ultimately depend on the use of pure hydrogen fuel produced from sources and processes that are carbon-free.  Rapid evolution of the energy system along its current trajectory, combined with cultural change, can avert the environmental danger. We study long-term trajectories in the energy system and means to improve its performance.

Publications about Energy

1128 JH Ausubel. Generations of methane (PDF) [external link]. EPRI J Summer: 2010 Generations of methane, methane, hydrogen

1123 JH Ausubel. Natural gas and the jack rabbit (PDF). Representative American Speeches 2008-2009 - The Reference Shelf 81(6): 2009 Natural gas and the jack rabbit, Natural gas

0105 JH Ausubel. Renewable and nuclear heresies (PDF). Int J Nucl Governance, Econ Ecol 1(3): 229-243, 2007 Renewable and nuclear heresies, nuclear, renewable, decarbonization, electricity, environmental impact, energy, nuclear power

0097 JH Ausubel. Big green energy machines [external link]. The Industrial Physicist 10(5): 20-24, 2004 Big green energy machines, Energy, electric power, zepp, zero emissions power plant, carbon dioxide, co2, liquid hydrogen

0086 JH Ausubel, C Marchetti. The evolution of transport (PDF) [external link]. The Industrial Physicist 7(2): 20-24, 2001 The evolution of transport, maglev, energy, transportation

0081 JH Ausubel. Where is energy going? (PDF) [external link]. The Industrial Physicist 6(1): 16-19, 2000 The essay had appeared in Italian in the special millennial edition of the Italian financial newspaper, Il Sole/24 Ore, on 17 November 1999; also in Italian as Benvenuti nel millennio nuclear, pp.163-168 in Duemila: Verso una societa aperta, M. Moussanet, ed., Il Sole 24 Ore, Milano, 2000.Where is energy going?, Energy, natural gas, nuclear, climate, emissions, carbon dioxide, co2, decarbonization

0068 JH Ausubel, C Marchetti, PS Meyer. Toward green mobility: The evolution of transport. European Review  6(2): 143-162, 1998 Toward green mobility: The evolution of transport, maglev, transportation, energy, logistic substitution, time budgets

0062 JH Ausubel, C Marchetti. Elektron: Electrical systems in retrospect and prospect. Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment 110-134, 1997 Also appeared in Daedalus 125(3):139-169, Summer 1996.Elektron: Electrical systems in retrospect and prospect, energy, electric power

0046 JH Ausubel. Technical progress and climatic change. Energy Policy 23(4/5): 411-416, 1995 Also pp. 501-512 in Integrated Assessment of Mitigation, Impacts, and Adaptation to Climate Change, N Nakicenovic, WD Nordhaus, R Richels, and FL Toth (eds), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1994.Technical progress and climatic change, climate, energy, natural gas, decarbonization, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, co2

0026 JH Ausubel. Chernobyl after Perestroika: Reflections on a recent visit. Technology in Society 14: 187-198, 1992 Chernobyl after Perestroika: Reflections on a recent visit, nuclear power, soviet union

0020 JH Ausubel. Political fallout: What fate awaits Chernobyl in the new world order?  (PDF). The Sciences 81: 16-21, 1991 Political fallout: What fate awaits Chernobyl in the new world order? , nuclear power, soviet union

0019 JH Ausubel. Energy and environment: The light path. Energy Systems and Policy 15: 181-188, 1991 Energy and environment: The light path, Energy, natural gas, nuclear, climate, emissions, carbon dioxide, co2