Transitioning Towards a Low-Carbon Hydrogen Economy in the United States

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Jacqueline C. K. Lam ◽  
Peter Hills ◽  
Esther C. T. Wong
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Transition Management ◽  
Hydrogen Fuel Cell ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Hydrogen Economy ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles

This paper describes the process of transitioning to a low-carbon hydrogen economy in the United States and the role of transition management (TM) in this process. Focusing on the transition process for hydrogen-based energy and transport systems in the United States, especially California, this study outlines the key characteristics of TM that have been employed in managing the transition. Several characteristics of TM have been noted in the United States’ hydrogen transition, including: (a) the complementarity of the long-term vision with incremental targets, (b) the integration of top-down and bottom-up planning, (c) system innovations and gradualism, (d) multi-level approaches and interconnectedness, and (e) reflexivity by learning and experimenting. These characteristics are instrumental in bringing about the development and initial commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and related energy infrastructure in the United States.

Transition to Low-Carbon Hydrogen Economy in America

2011 ◽  
pp. 92-111
Author(s):  
Jacqueline C.K. Lam ◽  
Peter Hills
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Transition Management ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Hydrogen Economy ◽  
Key Characteristics

This chapter describes the process of transitioning to a low-carbon hydrogen economy in the United States and the role of transition management (TM) in this process. Focusing on the transition process for hydrogen-based energy and transport systems in the United States, especially California, this study outlines the key characteristics of TM that have been employed in managing the transition. Several characteristics of TM have been noted in the United States’ hydrogen transition, including: (a) the complementarity of the long-term vision with incremental targets, (b) the integration of top-down and bottom-up planning, (c) system innovations and gradualism, (d) multi-level approaches and interconnectedness, and (e) reflexivity by learning and experimenting. These characteristics are instrumental in bringing about the development and initial commercialization of HFCVs and related energy infrastructure in the United States.

The American Jewish Intelligentsia, the Claims of Humor—and the Case of Lenny Bruce

2021 ◽  
pp. 232-250
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Whitfield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
The United States ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Stand Up Comedy ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Jewish Humor ◽  
American Jewish

Several major American Jewish scholars and intellectuals have addressed the vitality and the pertinence of Jewish humor, seeing in it an entrée not only into key characteristics of communal life but also into the texture of reality itself. These academicians and critics have exposed the encounter between stand-up comedy and the social and political peculiarities of Jewish life in the United States. No comedian attracted more sustained attention than Lenny Bruce, whose career enlarged the contours of what could explored in night clubs and on long-playing records. Perhaps no satirist took greater risks, or exposed himself to greater legal danger, in both subject matter and in language. No predecessor was more willing to flaunt his own Jewish sensibility, or to present with such cynicism the hypocrisies inherent in the codes of conduct by which respectable America professed to live—which is what made Bruce the object of serious interest.

The United States and Alternative Energies since 1980: Technological Fix or Regime Change?

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 103-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E Nye
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Carbon Intensity ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Policy Failure ◽  
Technological Momentum ◽  
Alternative Energies ◽  
Kaya Identity

Awareness of global warming has been widespread for two decades, yet the American political system has been slow to respond. This essay examines, first, political explanations for policy failure, focusing at the federal level and outlining both short-term partisan and structural explanations for the stalemate. The second section surveys previous energy regimes and the transitions between them, and policy failure is explained by the logic of Thomas Hughes’s ‘technological momentum’. The third section moves to an international perspective, using the Kaya Identity and its distinction between energy intensity and carbon intensity to understand in policy terms ‘technological fixes’ vs. low-carbon alternatives. The final section reframes US energy policy failure and asks: (1) Why, between 1980 and 1999, was America’s actual performance in slowing CO2emissions better than its politics would seem capable of delivering? (2) How and why has the United States since c. 2007 managed to reduce per capita CO2emissions?

Factors in low-carbon energy transformations: Comparing nuclear and bioenergy in Brazil, Sweden, and the United States

Energy Policy ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 131-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan E. Hultman ◽  
Elizabeth L. Malone ◽  
Paul Runci ◽  
Gregory Carlock ◽  
Kate L. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Energy

Recommendation of the Tax Policy of Low-Carbon Economy in China with Reference to the International Comparison of Carbon Emissions

2013 ◽  
Vol 869-870 ◽  
pp. 1024-1028
Author(s):  
De Fa Cai ◽  
Pei Xin Shi ◽  
Ting Xue
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Energy Taxes ◽  
Carbon Economy

Currently, the global warming becomes serious and has become the crisis and challenge of all the world. Low carbon economy is the best mode of coping with the global warming and realizing sustainable development of economy and society. At present, The United States is still in the first place of greenhouse gas are worth of using for reference in developed countries. At present, the United States is still the biggest country that exhausts greenhouse gases, such as CO2;however, carbon emissions in China can not be ignored. Recent research indicates that it is valuable to learn from developed countries carbon or energy taxes policy.

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