A5022362463- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Market Dynamics and Volatility
- Global Energy Security and Policy
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Criminal Law and Evidence
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Jury Decision Making Processes
- Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Legal and Constitutional Studies
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues
- Water Quality and Resources Studies
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Solid State Laser Technologies
- Birth, Development, and Health
Carnegie Institution for Science
2019-2023
Saddleback College
1992-2017
Breakthrough Institute
2009-2017
Decision Research
1992-2017
Newbury College
2014
Sandia National Laboratories California
2010
In a disturbing assault on intuition and conventional wisdom, Khazzoom Brookes have asserted that energy efficiency improvements might increase, rather than decrease consumption. If true, policies aimed at encouraging conservation could worsen ameliorate global warming would accelerate the need for offshore drilling provide substitute it. More generally, this result pit against environmental goals, in direct contradiction to many countries ‘ plans (which see as an solution). Yet neoclassical...
Artificial light has long been a significant factor contributing to the quality and productivity of human life. As consequence, we are willing use huge amounts energy produce it. Solid-state lighting (SSL) is an emerging technology that promises performance features efficiencies well beyond those traditional artificial lighting, accompanied by potentially massive shifts in (a) consumption light, (b) associated with (c) semiconductor chip area inventory turnover required support consumption....
150 years ago, Stanley Jevons introduced the concept of energy rebound: that anticipated efficiency savings may be “taken back” by behavioural responses. This is an important issue today because, if rebound significant, this would hamper effectiveness policies aimed at reducing use and associated carbon emissions. However, empirical studies which estimate national are rare and, perhaps as a result, largely ignored in energy-economy models policy. A significant difficulty lies components...
This article presents a critical assessment of 40 years research that may be brought under the umbrella energy efficiency, spanning different aggregations and domains—from individual producing consuming agents to economy-wide effects role innovation influence policy. After research, efficiency initiatives are generally perceived as highly effective. Innovation has contributed lowering technology costs increasing productivity. Energy programs in many cases have reduced use per unit economic...
New research using data spanning centuries reveals the presence of very large energy efficiency rebound magnitudes, calling into question use forecasts relied on by international bodies investigating climate change mitigation policy. This article uses those recent results to highlight and explain key drivers that future modelers need incorporate.
Abstract This article offers a simple, easy-to-use tool, CECANT, that allows policy analysts to calculate the economy-wide or sectoral energy use effects of new prospective efficiency technologies. Such are in general intricate and subtle. Unlike more complex equilibrium models, tool requires only researcher has access econometric estimates economy’s (or sector’s) cost function. CECANT enables rapidly address key questions related reducing carbon emissions, such as setting R&D...
For more than a half-century, evidence scholars have been exploring whether the criminal standard of proof can be grounded in decision theory. Such grounding would require emergence social consensus about utilities to assigned four outcomes at trial. Significant disagreement remains, even among legal scholars, relative desirability those and formalisms for manipulating their respective utilities. We attempt diagnose principal reasons this dissensus suggest ways which broadly shared...
This article offers a simple, easy-to-use tool, CECANT, that allows policy analysts to calculate the economy-wide or sectoral energy use effects of new prospective efficiency technologies. Such are in general intricate and subtle. Unlike more complex equilibrium models, tool requires only researcher has access econometric estimates economy's (or sector's) cost function. CECANT enables rapidly address key questions related reducing carbon emissions, such as setting R&D priorities, managing...
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Efforts to mitigate global warming are often justified through calculations of the economic damages that may occur absent mitigation. The earliest such damage estimates were speculative mathematical representations, but some more recent studies provide empirical on growth accumulate over time and result in larger than those estimated previously. These heightened have been used suggest limiting this century 1.5 °C avoids tens trillions 2010 US$ gross world product relative 2.0 °C. However,...
The three pillars of Asian energy security are an adequate, reliable supply; environmental sustainability; and affordable access for all. As Asians become more affluent, managing demand by tackling outmoded subsidies so prices reflect true costs, exploring green innovations in technology prudent infrastructure design, changing behavior will be crucial to achieving as expanding both renewable nonrenewable sources environmentally sound cost-effective manner. Without radical changes the...